劉珂

你會經(jīng)常看向窗外嗎？通過看窗外，你的眼睛會看見什么？你的大腦會想象什么？有人看見窗外陰晴變幻的天空;有人看見枯榮交替的花草樹木;也有人看見高樓大廈、車水馬龍……本文的作者在一個尋常的工作日上午從辦公室看向窗外，目睹了一場小小的事故，受到了巨大的震撼，從此改變了作者看待自身與他人的態(tài)度。

本文為短篇故事，全文627詞，建議用時7分鐘。

1. 梳理故事梗概，推測作者和故事主人公的身份信息;

2. 分析闡釋作者和故事主人公身上體現(xiàn)出的品質特點;

3. 深入挖掘故事中包含的道德寓意，從不同角度分析理解窗戶的象征意義。

A window is a common but powerful tool—a patch of the world， from which we are physically isolated. The only thing you can do is look. You have no influence on what you will see. However， your brain is forced to make a drama out of whatever happens to appear.

One day， I was taking a nap in the red chair in my office when I woke up to the sound of a car crash. I sat up and looked immediately out of my window. Across the street， in the parking lot， a car had just backed into a chain link fence. The car must have been moving fast， because it was in bad shape. Its hood had popped up， and part of its bumper （保險杠） was sitting on the ground. The fence was mangled （損壞）.

I couldn t believe what I saw， on an otherwise ordinary weekday morning out of my office window. I watched the driver get out of the car. He was stocky （矮壯的） with a shaved head; he wore cargo shorts （工裝短褲） and a flannel shirt unbuttoned to expose his chest hair. I disliked him immediately. After a few seconds of assessing the damage， he walked around the car and opened the passenger door， from which a very small child scrambled out. A toddler in the front seat！ My disdain （鄙視） for the man increased exponentially.

As the child ran around in the parking lot， the man tried to repair the damage he caused. He attempted to tug the ruined fence back into place， but it wouldn t move.

I sat in my red chair， looking out of my window， silently cheering.

The man tried， a little harder， to fix the fence. He grabbed its support pole， and pulled against it with his full weight. The pole suddenly broke， and the man fell hard onto the blacktop （柏油路）. The entire fence fell on top of him， and one of his sandals（涼鞋） went off and landed 10 feet away on the sidewalk.

I think I laughed out loudly. This was a slapstick masterpiece. It was brightening my whole day， the failure of this terrible man. He climbed out from under the collapsed fence and limped back to the apartment building above the lot， rubbing his elbow.

That， I thought， would be the end of it. The man—that villainous （可憎的） man—was going to leave all the chaos behind for someone else to clean up. It was only the middle of the morning， but I imagined that he sprawled out on his sofa with a case of beer， eating horrible snacks， while his child played with fire and broken glass near a malfunctioning electrical socket （插座）.

Ⅱ. Understand the title.

What does “the window” in the title symbolize？ Does it symbolize eyes or screens or both？ What is the deep meaning of the title Looking out of the window？

【點石成金】本文從標題到內容都運用了一些象征的寫作手法。象征手法是根據(jù)事物之間的某種聯(lián)系，借助某人或某物的具體形象（象征體），以表現(xiàn)某種抽象的概念、思想和情感。它可以使文章立意高遠、含蓄深刻。恰當?shù)剡\用象征手法，可以將某些比較抽象的思想概念化為具體的可以感知的形象，賦予文章以深意，從而給讀者留下回味的余地。

提升·素養(yǎng)建構

Ⅰ. 讀后寫作

假設你是本文作者，你想把本文故事發(fā)生當天自己的所見所感告知文中男主人公，請你寫一封信給男主人公，內容包括：

1. 說明自己的身份;

2. 描述當天發(fā)生的事;

3. 表達欽佩與感激之情。

Ⅱ. 視野拓展

在英語語言中，窗戶是一個十分常見的文化意象，除了“眼睛是心靈的窗戶（The eyes are the windows of the soul.）”之外，窗戶也常用來象征機會，有許多相關的名言，意味雋永，發(fā)人深省。

1. If God closes the door， somewhere he opens a window.

如果上帝向你關上了一扇門，他會為你開一扇窗。

2. The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

教育的目的就是把鏡子變成窗戶。

3. If a window of opportunity appears， don t pull down the shade.

當機會的窗口出現(xiàn)時，不要拉下簾子。

4. Never hesitate to open new windows in your life！

永遠不要對打開人生的新窗戶感到猶豫！

5. Each day， life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will ultimately be defined by how you respond to these windows of opportunity.

每天，生活都會給你送來小小的機會之窗。你的命運最終取決于你對之做出的反應。