{{B}}? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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? ? ? ? ?A Tale of Scottish Rural Life{{/B}} ?
?Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best Scottish
novel of all time" by Scotland’s reading public in 2005. Once considered
shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotland’s poor
rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent
decades. ? ?The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie,
in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond
World War Ⅰ. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the
community and a little outside it. ? ?Grassic Gibbon gives us the
most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine (女主人公). We watch
her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father;
experience tragedy (her mother’s suicide and murder of her twin children); and
learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her
husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some
female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a
man. ? ?But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is
just about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening
section tells of Kinraddie’s long history, in a language that imitates the
place’s changing patterns of speech and writing. ? ?The story
itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents, It is told from Chris’
point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where
everybody knows everybody else’s business and nothing is ever
forgotten. ? ?Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned
with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish
rural life first by modernization and then by World War Ⅰ. Gibbon tried hard to
show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the
young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away
Chris’ husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way
his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren’t responsible for his death, but
his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a
battle. ? ?If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also
looks ahead. It is a "Sunset Song" but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie,
indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other
novels about the place that continue its story.
The word "Sunset" in the title of this novel most probably means
{{B}}? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ?A Tale of Scottish Rural Life{{/B}} ?
?Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best Scottish
novel of all time" by Scotland’s reading public in 2005. Once considered
shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotland’s poor
rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent
decades. ? ?The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie,
in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond
World War Ⅰ. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the
community and a little outside it. ? ?Grassic Gibbon gives us the
most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine (女主人公). We watch
her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father;
experience tragedy (her mother’s suicide and murder of her twin children); and
learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her
husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some
female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a
man. ? ?But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is
just about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening
section tells of Kinraddie’s long history, in a language that imitates the
place’s changing patterns of speech and writing. ? ?The story
itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents, It is told from Chris’
point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where
everybody knows everybody else’s business and nothing is ever
forgotten. ? ?Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned
with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish
rural life first by modernization and then by World War Ⅰ. Gibbon tried hard to
show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the
young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away
Chris’ husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way
his widow is told. In fact, the Germans aren’t responsible for his death, but
his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a
battle. ? ?If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also
looks ahead. It is a "Sunset Song" but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie,
indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other
novels about the place that continue its story.
The word "Sunset" in the title of this novel most probably means
A.the end of the heroine’s life B.the end of the story C.the end of the traditional way of life D.the end of the day
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