With key words as the breakthrough point, read "In the Middle of the Desert" carefully.

Lu Haijun of Ningbo No.7 Middle School

March 2009 10

Keywords: calm down, truth dies a fair death.

First, "the wind is rustling and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone forever!" -passionate introduction, restore the times.

"In the Middle of the Desert" is selected from the seventh chapter of the prose collection "Man's Land" by the French writer Saint Exupery. Saint Exupé ry was one of the earliest pilots in France. This article is based on his real experience that his plane crashed in the Sahara desert near the Libyan border at 1935 and was rescued three days later. At the beginning of the 20th century, the airplane, as one of the greatest inventions of mankind, not only brought good news to mankind, but also brought life-threatening to the pilots who initially engaged in the aerospace industry and opened up new routes.

However, this backward era is too far away from students, and this adventurous professional student can't understand it, let alone imagine students fleeing from the harsh environment in the desert. Therefore, in order to let students get close contact with the author's life experience, let students feel the author's love and yearning for flying, and let students understand the author's spirit of longing for life but willing to sacrifice for exploring the truth, we must first restore the times and the background before class. Let students know about the dangers of aviation exploration in the early 20th century, and the life experience of Saint Exupé ry who flew for the first time at the age of 12 and gave his young life to his motherland at the age of 44. With the introduction of this background and the preparation of emotion, students can stimulate their enthusiasm for learning and enter the text and the author's story with an admiring heart.

The adventure story of Saint Exupery reminds us of the tragic departure of Jing Ke, the king of Qin who stabbed to death during the Warring States Period: "The wind blows and the water cools, and the strong man is gone forever!" Here, I want to use this poem to highly praise and evaluate the adventurous spirit of early pilots like Saint Exupery.

When Saint Exupery flew in the sky, his dream of literary creation began to set sail. During the flight, Saint-Exupé ry went through hardships and tests for the development of the air route and the fate of the motherland, risking his life and death, and cast magnificent and moving works with his life and painstaking efforts. In these works, he has a profound and poetic understanding of his adventure flight and aviation career, and his love and yearning for flying career are expressed between the lines. In order to facilitate students' understanding, the author's words can be quoted to explain.

Saint-Exupery described his occupation as follows: "The shepherd in Bata Gogna walked from one flock to another without hesitation, and he flew from one city to another. He is the shepherd of these small cities. "

Saint Exupery described the charm of the plane like this: "This metal is full of life. It is not trembling, but alive. The engine's 500 horsepower spread the slight trembling all over the fuselage, turning this cold substance into swan-like flesh and blood. "

Second, "We look forward to dawn just like farmers look forward to spring, and we look for our own truth among the stars"-read the key carefully and realize our pursuit.

This paper is mainly about my experience and thinking of being trapped in the desert because of a plane crash. The article describes in detail my psychological activities and emotional attitude in the harsh desert environment and under the condition that my survival is seriously threatened. From despair, fear and pain at the beginning, to calmness and optimism at the end, to the pursuit of life value, the thinking of adventure significance and the desire for life survival, the full text presents us with a real person, a brave person and a capitalized person. It should be the focus of this teaching to analyze the hero's fearless heroic image and realize the author's lofty pursuit of life.

The article is very long, but there is no specific story. The full text actually shows the ideological struggle process of the "I" in trouble, and students will find it abstract and difficult to understand when they first read it. Therefore, it is a great difficulty to perceive the content of the text as a whole. We can grasp the key sentences in the author's mental journey, take the key words in the key sentences as the starting point, outline the full text, go deep into the details of the article, and achieve the effect of pulling one hair and moving the whole body.

1, analyze the first to sixth paragraphs of the text and grasp the key word "cold"

In the first to sixth sections of the text, the main author is trapped in the pain, fear and despair of the desert. You can grasp the key sentence in the first section, "My blood circulation is blocked due to lack of water, and it is chilly, but it is not only cold at night", in which the word "cold" is the key word. Teachers can first grasp the word "cold" and ask students to read sections 1 to 6 carefully to find out which sentences specifically describe the "cold" on desert nights. Let the students read these sentences aloud: "The heat on the ground will soon run out." It's already very cold. ""My gums rattle with cold, and my body shakes like chaff. ""My trembling hands can hardly catch the light. " "I was never afraid of cold before, but now I feel freezing to death." "The cold wind came at me like a cavalry on the plain, so I had to run around to avoid its attack." "Whether I am lying or standing, I will be whipped by the cold wind." ...

Then grasp the "not just" in the sentence "not just cold at night" and deeply explore what other reasons lead to "me" and "cold". The reason of "cold" is not only the harsh environment of "desert night" at that time, but we can also explore from these words: "My blood circulation is blocked because of lack of water, and I am cold." "I was never afraid of cold before, but now I feel like I'm freezing to death. What a strange reaction caused by thirst! " These two sentences emphasize subjective reasons: "I" is short of water and thirsty; "It's not cold, it's other reasons. This sentence clearly emphasizes that the more important reason is that "I" feel that my time has come and I am desperate.

Then let the students feel the "I" mentality under the urging of "cold". Students will find out the relevant sentences: "I can't run, I have no strength anymore, I can't escape from the murderer's clutches, I kneel on the ground, my face buried in my palm, and the butcher knife is on my head!" " ""The idea of freezing to death makes me uncomfortable. I would rather die in an inner illusion. " "I still kneel on the ground. "Through these sentences, students will realize that" I "at this time is full of fear of" cold "and my psychology is on the verge of despair.

The above three questions are in-depth and distinct, guiding students to be in the "cold" environment of the author at that time and feeling the pain, fear and despair of the author on the verge of despair. It paves the way for further study of the author's great personality and lofty pursuit.

2. Analyze the seventh to eleventh sections of the text and grasp the key word "calm down"

In the seventh to eleventh sections of the text, the main writers calm down in pain and despair and face the immediate difficulties calmly. You can grasp the key word "peace" in the sentence "I feel calm, a kind of peace beyond any hope" in Section 9, and let students explore where the author is no longer afraid of death and has recovered his "peace" inside. "I tried to drink two or three mouthfuls of pure ether", "I drank a little 90-degree alcohol" and "I was covered with sand". The mentality of "I kneel on the ground" embodied in these statements is obviously completely different. At this moment, "I" can face it calmly and positively. "I don't feel cold anymore, as long as I don't move a little muscle." "I will never move again, and I will never hurt again." "I feel that a torrent of images has brought me to a quiet dream: in the depths of the sea, the rivers are calm." In fact, it is still such an environment, such a desire, or a dying "I", but at this moment, the author is no longer scared and painful, but accepts it calmly, which is in sharp contrast with before.

3. From the twelfth section of the text to the end, grasp the key word "true"

From the twelfth section to the end of the article, the author mainly expounds the purpose and significance of his adventure in aerospace industry and his thinking on the value of life. This part is the focus and difficulty of this teaching, and there are many difficult sentences with profound meanings to be analyzed. We can grasp the "truth" in the sentence "We look forward to dawn like farmers look forward to spring, we look forward to stopovers like blessed land, and we look for our own truth among the stars" as a key word, so that students can easily understand the author's lofty spirit in flying career and this adventure and his feelings of dying without regret. On this basis, other sentences in this paragraph are no longer difficult to understand. For example, an airplane is not an end, but a tool. People don't risk their lives for airplanes, and farmers don't farm for plowing. "I need to live. In the city, no one lives. " "I don't regret. I struggled, but failed. This is also common for people in our industry. However, I finally breathed the sea breeze. "We can understand these words from the height of the author's" seeking truth ",which will be easy to solve.

Three, "a person can be destroyed, but can't be defeated"-practicing adventure and capitalizing life.

At the end of the text, we should explore the meaning of adventure. Here, the life experience of Saint Exupery is the best interpretation of the meaning of "adventure". At the beginning of the 20th century, aircraft manufacturing technology was imperfect, at the same time, the weather forecast was inaccurate and information technology was underdeveloped, so it was even more risky to open up new routes. Saint Exupé ry was one of the earliest pilots in France. His first flight was at the age of 12, and he became fascinated with flying. After the outbreak of World War II, he was enlisted again. 65438+1July 3, 9441When he was performing a task, his superiors considered his physical condition and age and only allowed him to fly five tasks, but he asked to fly eight times. As a result, when he set sail for the eighth mission, he never came back, only 44 years old. Saint Exupery devoted his short life to aviation and adventure flight. No one knows what happened in an instant, and no one knows how deeply the pilot and writer Saint Exupery felt in an instant. All this has become an eternal regret. But today we read "Man's Land" by Saint Exupery, and we found that the author had actually told us.

In this article, the author has clearly expressed the significance of exploration. We can ask students to find relevant sentences to understand: "On the suburban train, the feeling of death is very different from here!" " Here, anyway, I die a fair death! ""I don't like matadors at all. I don't like danger. I know what I like, and this is life. " The author loves life, but for the sake of aviation, he "died a fair death". Here we can take "a fair death honors the whole life" as the key word to understand the author's adventure practice.

In addition, the words extracted by the author from Exercise 3 after class are also a good proof. We can also add relevant sentences to other chapters of Man's Earth, so that students can further understand the author's life pursuit and adventurous spirit:

"When we realize our role, even the most humble role, we will feel happy. Only in this way can we live and die peacefully, because what gives meaning to life also gives meaning to death. "

-From the third quarter of Chapter 8 of Man's Earth.

"Only when the spirit blows mud can a capitalized person be created."

-from "Man's Earth"

Saint Exupery is also noble, because he always believes that "life should be given meaning" and that "the happiness of human beings lies not in freedom, but in taking responsibility". He chose to fly because the soul can often be sublimated in the high altitude and solitude. Only when people get out of the desert can they become people and become "capitalized people"; Only by sacrificing the ego can we achieve me and achieve a selfless ego. "

-Huang Di, translator of "Human Earth"

Saint-Exupery's adventure is not simply an act of seeking excitement, nor does it mean that you can practice it only with courage or relying on young impulses. The author does not take risks for the sake of taking risks, but out of a commitment to responsibility. The author explained the meaning of life and the value of death with his own life.

Here, I would like to quote an old fisherman's sentence in For Who the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea: "A man is not born to be defeated", "A man is not born to fail, he can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated."

Saint Exupery, a real person, a brave person, a capitalized person.

Here, we can combine the theme of "adventure" in this unit, so that students can exchange people with this tough personality from other texts and Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces. For example, Scott in The Great Tragedy, Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, The Man by American writer Jack London, and The Old Man and the Sea in For Whom the Bell Tolls. ...

Fourth, "I would like to dedicate this book to this adult in my childhood"-extracurricular expansion, frequent reading and constant innovation.

Saint-Exupé ry's representative works include the novel Nanfang Post (1928), Night Flight (193 1), the essay The Earth of Man (1939, translated into English as Stars in a Sandstorm) and the novel Air Force Pilot. His six works all use airplanes as tools to observe the world and explore life from the height of the universe. In the history of modern literature, Saint Exupery is regarded as one of the earliest writers who paid attention to the living conditions of human beings.

It is worth mentioning that Saint Exupery, who has been writing about airplanes, wrote a fairy tale with profound implications-the little prince. This is a fairy tale with less than 50,000 words, but its circulation is second only to the Bible and Das Kapital, with hundreds of millions of copies so far. Fairy tales are often told to children by adults, but The Little Prince is a fairy tale for adults. Those humorous eulogies are the key to understanding this book.

The little prince's dedication:

"I ask the children to forgive me for dedicating this book to an adult. I have a very important reason: this adult is my best friend in the world. I have another reason: this adult knows everything, even books written for children. My third reason is that this adult lives in France, where he is hungry and cold. He really needs comfort. If these reasons are not enough, then I'd like to dedicate this book to this young adult. All adults were once children. Unfortunately, only a few adults remember this. Therefore, I changed my dedication to: dedicated to Leon Wilder when he was a little boy. "

The Little Prince reflects the author's simple understanding and feelings about the world and life: about love, about friendship, about trust, about loyalty, about happiness, about responsibility ... The meaning of the little prince is becoming more and more obvious in the harsh reality. Decades later, The Little Prince has become a work that adults, children, orientals and westerners all over the world love to read.

Here, I quote a few words from the article that touched me deeply and share them with you:

The little prince's words:

"If you love a flower that grows on a star, you will feel sweet and happy when you look up at the sky at night. All the stars seem to have flowers. "

"You are nothing like my rose. You are nothing! No one has tamed you, and neither have you tamed anyone. You are just like my old fox. It's just a fox like thousands of other foxes. But I have regarded it as a friend now, so it is unique in the world now. "

Fox's words:

"This is my secret. It's simple: you can only see clearly with your heart. Substantial things are invisible to the eyes. "

Therefore, it is necessary to recommend Saint Exupery's fairy tale The Little Prince to students after class, which is also worth reading by ourselves. This is a fairy tale book that is often read and updated.