【正文】 or facts. Edward Gibborn’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is praised not only for its multitudinous facts and rationalistic analysis, but more for its beauty of narrative style. In telling stories, the novelist aims at something higher or he intends to add something to the mere “facts.” As indicated in the definition of the novel, what makes a novel is the novelist’s style (personalized presentation of the story) and interpretation of the story.Tragedy as a whole has just six constituent elements… and they are plot, characters, verbal expression, thought, visual adornment, and song—position. For the elements by which they imitate are two (verbal expression and song—position), the manner in which they imitate is one (visual adornment), the things they imitate are three (plot, characters, thought), and there is nothing more beyond these. 3. The dramatic situation in a story. a beginning a middle an end(suspense, a series of suspense, of greatest tension,III. Questions: (Finish reading the two stories and point out the plots of the two stories, the descriptive details, the exposition, characters)3. Where does the dramatic conflict? 6. How fully does the author draw the characters in the story? (Character traits are the qualities of a character’s personality. They are revealed through a character’s actions and words and through description). P,” and the motivation of a character in a story—one of the answers to the question “why”—is of fundamental importance.Orwell does not intend to convince the reader that animals can speak human language or that But we must bear in mind that the characters are not real persons, but merely inventions, story. But they are not equally important or have the same function to the novelist. By their roles in the novel, the characters can be grouped as heroes, main characters and minor characters, and foils.I. Why do we have such course?II. Introduction about reading a storyPlot。 styleTo read novels for story is nothing wrong, but nothing professional either. “One mark of a secondrate mind is to be always telling stories.” The remark by the French writer jean de La Bruyere (1645~1696) is also true of the reader. If the purpose of the novel is only to tell stories, it could as well remain unborn, for newspapers and history books are sufficient to satisfy people’s desire for stories about both present and past, and even about future. In fact, many newapapermen have been dissatisfied with their job of reporting and e into the field of novel writing. Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Hemingway and Camus were among the most famous and the most successful converts. Even historians may feel obliged to do more than mere stories or facts. Edward Gibborn’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is praised not only for its multitudinous facts and rationalistic analysis, but more for its beauty of narrative style. In telling stories, the novelist aims at something higher or he intends to add something to the mere “facts.” As indicated in the definition of the novel, what makes a novel is the novelist’s style (personalized presentation of the story) and interpretation of the story.Tragedy as a whole has just six constituent elements… and they are plot, characters, verbal expression, thought, visual adornment, and song—position. For the elements by which they imitate are two (verbal expression and song—position), the manner in which they imitate is one (visual adornment), the things they imitate are three (plot, characters, thought), and there is nothing more beyond these. 3. The dramatic situation in a story. a beginning a middle an end(suspense, a series of suspense, of greatest tension,III. Questions: (Finish reading the two stories and point out the plots of the two stories, the descriptive details, the exposition, characters)3. Where does the dramatic conflict? 6. How fully does the author draw the characters in the story? (Character traits are the qualities of a character’s personality. They are revealed through a character’s actions and words and through description). P,” and the motivation of a character in a story—one of the answers to the question “why”—is of fundamental importance.Orwell does not intend to convince the reader that animals can speak human language or that But we must bear in mind that the characters are not real persons, but merely inventions, story. But they are not equally important or have the same function to the novelist. By their roles in the novel, the characters can be grouped as heroes, main characters and minor characters, and foils.I. Why do we have such course?II. Introduction about reading a storyPlot。 styleTo read novels for story is nothing wrong, but nothing professional either. “One mark of a secondrate mind is to be always telling stories.” The remark by the French writer jean de La Bruyere (1645~1696) is also true of the reader. If the purpose of the novel is only to tell stories, it could as well remain unborn, for newspapers and history books are sufficient to satisfy people’s desire for stories about both present and past, and even about future. In fact, many newapapermen have been dissatisfied with their job of reporting and e into the field of novel writing. Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Hemingway and Camus were among the most famous and the most successful converts. Even historians may feel obliged to do more than mere stories or facts. Edward Gibborn’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is praised not only for its multitudinous facts and rationalistic analysis, but more for its beauty of narrative style. In telling stories, the novelist aims at something higher or he intends to add something to the mere “facts.” As indicated in the definition of the novel, what makes a novel is the novelist’s style (personalized presentation of the story) and interpretation of the story.Tragedy as a whole has just six constituent e