兒童文學 Week 10

Why mosquito buzz in people’s ear ：Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale is a picture book by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon told in the form of a cumulative tale written for young children, which tells an African legend.

Conflict：Mother owl wakes the sun, so the dawn can come or not.

⇒A night grow longer and longer.

Python：In Greek mythology, Python was the earth-dragon of Delphi, always represented in Greek sculpture and vase-paintings as a serpent.

A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) ：a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into another, smaller one (or several ones) within it.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer：The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn：Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

(這兩本都不太適合初學者，因為他們都太口語了)

The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew (Matthew 18:12–14) and Luke (Luke 15:3–7). It is about a shepherd who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost. It is the first member of a trilogy about redemption that Jesus tells after the Pharisees and religious leaders accuse him of welcoming and eating with "sinners." The two parables that follow (in Luke's Gospel) are those of the Lost Coin and the Prodigal Son. The parable of the Good shepherd, a pericope found in John 10:1-21, derives from it.

Antebellum：Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

conscience：An awareness of morality in regard to one's behavior; a sense of right and wrong that urges one to act morally
conscious：alert and awake; not sleeping or comatose

lonesome：lonely in situation; remote, desolate, or isolated.
mournful(adj.)：Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
 mourn(v.)：To feel or express grief or sorrow.

It makes the cold shivers run over me. 這讓我全身雞皮疙瘩掉滿地。