来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第1集 第1集》
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that happened in your life.每件事都写进去 -
You have to choose.你要做出取舍 -
Well, critics took it fairly straightforwardly批评家直截了当地 -
as the account of a life and in that sense,把它看作是生活的流水账 -
taking it that way, some of them were a little因此有些人会对他的书 -
disappointed with what they held in their hands.有一丝失望 -
For one thing, it seemed exaggerated to some people.一方面 这对一些人来说有点夸张了 -
So the first scene, as we will discover in "Black Boy"我们在《黑孩子》中读到的第一个场景里 -
is when Richard, young Richard-- I think he was 6--六岁的小理查德在窗帘下玩火柴 -
burns down the family house把他家的房子 -
playing with matches underneath the curtains,烧了个精光 -
and his mother finds him where he has他母亲在燃烧的房子里找到了