the_time_machine.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,7,时间机器读书报告,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,Brief,I,ntroduction to,T,he,A,uthor,H(erbert)G(eorge)Wells(1866-1946),English novelist,journalist,sociologist,and historian,whose science fiction stories have been filmed many times.H.G.Wellss best known works are THE TIME MACHINE(1895),.Its the,one of the first modern science fiction stories,THE INVISIBLE MAN(1897),and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS(1898).Wells wrote over a hundred of books,about fifty of them novels.,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,From 1893 Wells devoted himself entirely to writing.As a novelist Wells made his debut with The Time Machine,a parody of English class division.,The Time Traveller,-The Time Travellers name is never given.Apparently the narrator wants to protect his identity.The Time Traveller is an inventor.He likes to,speculate on,（infer）,the future and the underlying structures of what he observes.,characters,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,Weena,-Weena is one of the Eloi.Although the Time Traveller reports that it is difficult to distinguish gender,（性别）,among the Eloi,he seems quite sure that Weena is female.He easily saves her from being washed down the river,and she eagerly becomes his friend.Her behavior toward him is not unlike that of a pet or small child,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,MORLOCK,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,A group of men,including the narrator,is listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is,the fourth dimension,（四维）,.The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air.The next week,the guests return,to find their host stumble in,（walk unsteadily）,looking tired.They sit down after dinner,and the Time Traveller begins his story.,summary,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,The Time Traveller had finally finished work on his time machine,and it rocketed him into the future.When the machine stops,in the year 802,701 AD,he finds himself in a,heavenly,world of small,manlike,creatures called Eloi.They are,weak,and peaceful,and give him fruit to eat.He explores the area,but when he returns he finds that his time machine is gone.He decides that it has been put inside the pedestal,(雕塑基座),of a nearby statue.He tries t,o,open,it,but cannot.In the night,he begins to catch glimpses of strange white ape-like,（像猿）,creatures the Eloi call Morlocks.He decides that the Morlocks live below ground,down the wells that,dot,the landscape.,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,Meanwhile,he saves one of the Eloi from drowning,and she befriends him.Her name is Weena.The Time Traveller finally works up enough courage to go down into the world of Morlocks to try to re,gain,his time machine.He finds that matches are a good defense against the Morlocks,but,final,ly they,chase,him out of their,kingdom,.Frightened by the Morlocks,he takes Weena to try to find a place where they will be safe from the Morlocks,nightly,hunting.He goes to what he calls the Palace of Green Porcelain,which turns out to be a museum.,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,There,he finds more matches,some camphor,（樟脑油）,and a,lever,he can use as a weapon.That night,retreatingfrom the Morlocks through a giant wood,he accidentally starts a fire.Many Morlocks die in the fire,and Weena is killed.The worn-out Time Traveller returns to the,pedestal,to find that it has already been open,ed,.He strides in confidently,and just when the Morlocks think that they have trapped him,he springs onto the machine and whizzes into the future.,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,The Time Traveller makes several more stops.In a distant time he stops on a beach where he is attacked by giant,crabs,.The bloated,（肿胀的）,red sun sits motionless,（unmoving）,in the sky.He then travels thirty million years into the future.There he sees some of the last living things on a dying Earth.He then returns to the present time.The next day,he leaves again,but never returns.,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,WHETHER HISTORY,CAN BE CHANGED?,Q:,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,IF THE HISTORY CAN BE CHANGED?,IS IT GOOD,Q:,A Book Report of,The Time Machine,Much of the realistic atmosphere of the story was achieved by carefully studied technical details.The basic principles of the machine contained materials regarding time as the fourth dimension-years later Albert Einstein published his theory of the four dimensional continuum of space-time.,THANKS!,