Words ＆ Phrases

No.1 massacre.

to kill a lot of people or animals in a violent way , especially when they cannot defend themselves.

For example:①The army massacred more than 150 unarmed civilians.

                      ②Tens of thousands dolphins and small whales are brutally massacred every year.

NO.2 wring.

to succeed in getting something from someone, but only after a lot of effort

the same meaning of squeeze.

Phrases: wring something from/out of somebody.

For example: ①They are always trying to wring additional funds from the government .

                        ②I managed to wring the information out of him .

NO.3 suffocate.

to die or make someone die by preventing them from breathing .

For example : The animal seizes its prey by the throat and suffocates it to death.

Phrases: be suffocating

to feel uncomfortable because there is not enough fresh air .

No.4 scoff

to laugh  at a person or idea , and talk about them in a way that shows you think they are stupid .

Phrases:scoff at

For example: David scoffed at her fears.

No.5 scrape

to remove something from a surface using the edge of a knife , a stick etc

Phrases: scrape something off / into etc .

For example :  Teresa scraped the mud off her boots.

Summary

In this chapter, Amir and his father escaped to Fremont for about two years, at first , his father worked in a gas station, but he cannot adjust the America life,there is always a paragraph vividly shows their life,that is "For me, America was a place to bury my memories,for baba , a place to mourn his ." during this time , Amir was graduated from high school and successfully entered in a junior college to pursue his dream of writing, to my surprise, his father finally agreed .in 1984 , Amir and father have their own stand at the flea market,in there , Amir encountered his dream lover-Soraya and Amir was obsessed with her.

小结:阿米尔和爸爸逃难的过程充满艰辛，到达美国后爸爸也一直未能完全融入其中，怀念家乡，怀念哈桑父子，而阿米尔自认为能够逃离过去的记忆，其实也未能如愿，过去的错事一直种在他的内心深处久久不能释怀，这也为后文哈桑的悲惨遭遇埋下的伏笔，然而我在想，如果哈桑成年后收获了幸福生活，阿米尔是否能够感到些许内心的安慰？这不得而知，同时也验证了那句老话，做过的错事就像木桩上的钉子，即使拔掉了也会留有痕迹，无法抹去。对于阿米尔庆幸的是父亲没有过分阻碍他的写作志愿，他也邂逅了梦中情人—将军的女儿。