Рассказы Миссис Толл,
написанные специально для нашего клуба английского языка.
Mrs. Tall's Stories:
I don't think I could read before I went to school, but I picked it up quickly, and have never stopped. As I child, I read with a total lack of discrimination. I read everything I could lay my hands on, including the back of cornflakes packets, and the instructions on bottles of shampoo. Come to think of it, I still do. I was a member of our local library as a child, and my mother approved of me reading, as it was educational, free, and kept me quiet. My parent's marriage was not a happy one, and for me, books were a way of escaping some difficult times.
I know I read lots of children's fiction, but my life was probably changed forever when one of my older sisters gave me a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and said 'Read this.' Bronte, by the way, is spelt with two small dots over the e, similar to a German umlaut. It was the first adult book I think I read, and although I know I didn't understand it fully, I was dazzled enough to be swept along by it. I have re-read it many times since, and I have always found something new in it. I think one of the reasons that I was so fascinated by it was the heroine herself, Jane. In everything I had read until then, heroines were always pretty, and Jane wasn't, and neither was I, so perhaps I identified with her. She described herself as ' little, poor and plain,' so I liked her. Then, she had fighting spirit, and she loved books, so that was good enough for me. This is the opening paragraph of the book:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question." Somehow the words just balance so well, the picture is so perfect, that I am always drawn into Jane's story, which at the start of the book is just as cold and miserable as the weather.
Задания для учащихся
а) Да б) Нет с) В рассказе об этом не говорится
2) Найдите дополнительную информацию
а) О Шарлотте Бронте
написанные специально для нашего клуба английского языка.
Mrs. Tall's Stories:
'I can't remember a time when I didn't read'.
I don't think I could read before I went to school, but I picked it up quickly, and have never stopped. As I child, I read with a total lack of discrimination. I read everything I could lay my hands on, including the back of cornflakes packets, and the instructions on bottles of shampoo. Come to think of it, I still do. I was a member of our local library as a child, and my mother approved of me reading, as it was educational, free, and kept me quiet. My parent's marriage was not a happy one, and for me, books were a way of escaping some difficult times.
I know I read lots of children's fiction, but my life was probably changed forever when one of my older sisters gave me a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and said 'Read this.' Bronte, by the way, is spelt with two small dots over the e, similar to a German umlaut. It was the first adult book I think I read, and although I know I didn't understand it fully, I was dazzled enough to be swept along by it. I have re-read it many times since, and I have always found something new in it. I think one of the reasons that I was so fascinated by it was the heroine herself, Jane. In everything I had read until then, heroines were always pretty, and Jane wasn't, and neither was I, so perhaps I identified with her. She described herself as ' little, poor and plain,' so I liked her. Then, she had fighting spirit, and she loved books, so that was good enough for me. This is the opening paragraph of the book:
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question." Somehow the words just balance so well, the picture is so perfect, that I am always drawn into Jane's story, which at the start of the book is just as cold and miserable as the weather.
As I grew older, I read all of the Bronte sister's books, then everything I could about their extraordinary lives. Do you know their story? If not would you like me to tell it to you? Now dragged into the world of adult fiction, I headed for more of the same, Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell (who wrote Charlotte Bronte's biography after her death) George Elliott, and many, many more. My life was changed, as I wrote earlier, as the English language and English literature became my passion, and became the subjects I studied, and the way I earned my living. I suppose I'm one of those lucky people whose hobby provides them with their living.
1. Ответьте на вопросы:
1) Что читала Миссис Толл в детстве?
а) только сказки б) самые разные книги в) всё, включая надписи и инструкции
2) Книгу какого автора дала ей прочитать её сестра?
а) Чарльза Диккенса б) А.С. Пушкина в) Шарлотты Бронте
3) Миссис Толл считает, что у неё много общего с Джейн, главной героиней романа.
а) Да б) Нет с) В рассказе об этом не говорится
4) Миссис Толл перечитывала этот роман много раз.
а) Да б) Нет с) В рассказе об этом не говорится
2) Найдите дополнительную информацию
а) О Шарлотте Бронте
б) О романе "Джейн Эйр"
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