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,*,*,By F.Scott Fitzgerald,Introduction of F.Scott Fitzgerald,F司各特菲茨杰拉德（1896-1940）was born in St.Paul(圣保罗),Minnesota(明尼苏达州),in 1896,attended Princeton University,and published his first novel,This Side of Paradise,in 1920.,That same year he got married,and the couple divided their time among New York,Paris,and the Riviera(里维埃拉),becoming a part of the American expatriate(流放)circle that included Gertrude Stein(格特鲁德斯坦因),Ernest Hemingway,and John Dos Passos(约翰多斯帕索斯).,Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice,and his masterpieces(杰作)include The Beautiful and Damned(美丽与诅咒),The Great Gatsby(了不起的盖茨比),and Tender Is the Night(夜色温柔).He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of fortyfour while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon(最后一个巨头).,Character introduction,Benjamin Button:main character,a man who have a back forward life.,Roger Buttons:Benjamins parents,Hildegarde Moncrief:Benjamins wife,Roscoe Button:Benjamins son,“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”is a short story by F.Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse:He is born a feeble 70-year-old and becomes younger as the years progress.This faithful graphic-novel adaptation chronicles Benjamin Buttons many adventures:He falls in love with a woman who ages normally,starts a family,and establishes a successful business.,In his later years,he attends Harvard(哈佛)as a student and plays on their football team.By the time he is an old man,Benjamin Button resembles(像)a newborn baby.And then he remembered nothing.Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard,and faintly differentiated smells,and light and darkness.,And their also a movie“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”adapted from this book.The movie was directed by David Fincher(大卫芬奇).,In the movie,the director changed a lot of the book.He added the part of anti-war,the inside world of a unusual manall the people around him is getting older and leave him alone.,Personally,I prefer the movie.,The,Curious,Case,OF,BENJIEMIN,BUTTON,by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett,The story began with a clock running back forward in honor of the soldiers died in the World War One.It also gave Benjamin the back forward life.,New born Benjaminhad an old appearance and organs(,器官,).,He was 7,totally a child,but seemed to be a 87 dying man.,He went through his childhood in the Home for the Aged.There he felt that he was the same as other aged people.,In the nursing house,he meet Daisy.,Several years later,he work as a sailor and once fought for the World War.,After the World War,Benjamin back to home,he met Daisy,she was still beautiful in his eyes.Now she is an outstanding dancer.,But Daisy has already got a lover,so Benjamin leave again.,Without Daisy,he spent quite a unconventional(,不寻常的,)life for a time.,They met again due to the car accident of Daisy which make her cannot dance any more.In that time,they were almost the same age.,They were finally together.They were soul lovers.,Then they have a daughter.Benjamin was afraid of getting young with his daughter nearby,so he chose to leave.,When he seemed to be about 17,hes actually 57,he came back,and his daughter was already 12.,Then one day,Benjamin was founded by the police.He forgot everything.So Daisy came to look after him.,At the end of his life,Benjamin was hold in Daisy arms and stared her steadily.,Were meant to lose the people we love.How else would we know how important they are to us.,我们命中注定要失去我们所爱之人，不然我们怎么知道他们在我们生命中有多重要？,Fat people,skinny people,tall people,white people.they just as alone as us.But theyre scared shitless.,无论什么肤色、什么体型，人都是孤独的,但可怕的不是孤独 而是惧怕孤独,You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went.You could swear,curse the Fates.But when it comes to the end,you have to let go.,有时事与愿违，你大可以像疯狗一样咆哮，怨天尤人，诅咒命运，悔不当初但是最后一刻到来之时，你还得平静得放手而去。,