2022暑期精讀第七課:外婆的道歉信(第一章節(jié)選)

選擇作品:My Grandma Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
????????“‘暖心小說之王’巴克曼代表作”
????????“充滿希望、諒解,寬容對待每個(gè)人的不同之處。合上書本,愛莎的故事將會永遠(yuǎn)與你伴隨?!?/p>
????????“外婆說,要大笑、要做夢、要與眾不同。人生是一場偉大的冒險(xiǎn)”
????????七歲的Elsa有個(gè)古怪又瘋狂的外婆,但她卻是Elsa唯一的朋友,也是她心中的超級英雄。后來,外婆不幸得了癌癥去世,留給Elsa一項(xiàng)任務(wù),就是將外婆的道歉信送給她得罪過的九個(gè)鄰居。這一趟送信之旅讓Elsa漸漸發(fā)現(xiàn):外婆和鄰居們的故事,比她聽過的所有童話都更加精彩。

內(nèi)容干貨
1. 作者簡介,本文概要
????????作者簡介:Fredrik Backman, a Swedish columnist, blogger and writer, was born in helsinkburg, Sweden in 1981. He studied religious teaching in university but didn’t graduate. Later, he worked as a truck driver, columnist and blogger.
????????Notable Works:《A Man Called Ove》,《My Grandma Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry》
???????(節(jié)選部分)作品梗概:?Elsa is seven but is always described as “very grown-up for her age”. Elsa’s grandma is seventy-seven but people always say she’s mad and perky. Anyway, Granny is Elsa’s only friend and her superhero. One day, Granny did crazy things again, escaping from a hospital and breaking into the zoo, just because she wanted Elsa to forget about the school bullying that she experienced that day.
?2. 單詞詞組,地道表達(dá)
????????校長說,她應(yīng)該fall into line,才能更好地融入同齡人。其他成年人則稱她“比同齡人成熟得多”。艾爾莎知道這只是另一種表達(dá)“在這個(gè)年齡做某些事非常煩人”的方式,因?yàn)橹挥挟?dāng)她糾正他們讀錯(cuò)“déjàvu”或無法區(qū)分“me”和“I”時(shí),他們才會這么說。Smart-asses沒有什么本事,所以“老成”這個(gè)評價(jià),往往伴隨著對她父母的strained smile。只因?yàn)閻凵@個(gè)七歲小孩沒有表現(xiàn)得特別thick,就好像她有mental impairment,或是在故意賣弄。
?????????你可以看出外婆老了,因?yàn)樗哪樋雌饋硐袷莕ewspaper stuffed into wet shoes,但從來沒有人指責(zé)外婆比同齡人成熟。 “Perky”,這是人們對外婆的評價(jià)。有一次,當(dāng)外婆在醫(yī)院吸煙導(dǎo)致火警鈴聲響起時(shí),她rant 和 rave著“(為什么)現(xiàn)在一切都必須非常極其正確!”然后保安讓她extinguish香煙。還有一次,那些戴著spectacles的prim men敲響門鈴,想宣傳上帝、耶穌和天堂,外婆就站在陽臺上,穿著gown,揮舞著她的paintball gun向他們射擊。
?????????他們還說外婆太瘋狂,但實(shí)際上她是個(gè)天才。只不過她同時(shí)有點(diǎn)像crackpot罷了?,F(xiàn)在外婆的主要工作就是在家drive布里特-瑪麗和愛莎的媽媽 around the bend。不過不管怎么說:救人性命和driving people nuts都是外婆的超能力。這讓她有點(diǎn)兒像是個(gè)“dysfunctional”的超級英雄。外婆這個(gè)年紀(jì)的人形容維基百科是“一部百科全書,但在網(wǎng)上”,而愛莎形容百科全書是“維基百科,但是是analog”。
?????????在人行道邊等媽媽時(shí),愛莎用手指撥弄著圍巾上的rip。它正好穿過格蘭芬多的emblem。
?????????學(xué)校里三個(gè)高年級的女孩在餐廳外抓住愛莎,打她,tore了她的圍巾,還把圍巾扔進(jìn)馬桶。這三個(gè)女孩討厭愛莎,但愛莎也不知道為什么。她們的jeers還回蕩在愛莎的腦海里。
?3. 佳句賞析
????????? “Perky,” people sometimes say to Elsa’s mum, looking either fairly worried or fairly angry as Mum sighs and asks how much she owes for the damages.
或憂慮,或生氣,人們對于外婆的說法卻是一致的,以此引出外婆做的許多荒唐事……
??????????People of Granny’s age describe Wikipedia as “an encyclopedia, but on the net!” Encyclopedias are what Elsa describes as “Wikipedia, but analog.”
????????老人與孩子,維基百科與百科全書,對比鮮明。
4. 主旨哲思,流連賞玩
??????????忘卻什么,記住什么
????????If you can’t get rid of the bad, you have to top it up with more goody stuff.
????????I didn’t want you to remember this day because of the scarf. So I thought instead you could remember it as the day your Granny broke into a zoo—
????????生活有好有壞,我們要如何去選擇……
??????????荒唐笨拙,亦為智慧
????????Granny notices the look in her eyes and leans forward before whispering in their secret language:
????????“One day we’ll take those losers at your school to Miamas and throw them to the lions!”
????????“And, you know . . . we can tell your mum the scarf got torn when you were trying to stop me climbing the fence to get to the monkeys.”
????????荒唐事背后是她小心翼翼的措辭,是她編織的童話,是她給予的愛。

????????去做孩子眼里的超級英雄,做Miamas的騎士。外婆的古怪荒唐是給予孫女笨拙又智慧的愛、也是她對待世界的特別方式, 在《外婆的道歉信》后面的章節(jié)中,你會了解到更多外婆和鄰居們的故事,你會看到Elsa懂得了守護(hù)、愛和原諒。
????????愿你去大笑、去做夢、去坦然接受與眾不同、去面對悲傷和失去,好好生活……