Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Part Three Text Appreciation ENTER

Text Appreciation Contents Text Analysis II.Writing Devices Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Appreciation Contents Text Analysis 1. General Analysis 2. Theme 3. Structure 4. Analysis of Father’s Image 5. The Use of Symbols II.Writing Devices Syntactic Anaphora Syntactic Epiphora

Have you got the key elements in the story? Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis Have you got the key elements in the story? General Analysis Plot of the story Setting of the story Protagonists of the story Writing techniques of the story Theme of the story For reference

The end of General Analysis. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis General Analysis Plot : the discovery of a father Setting : on a rainy night Protagonists : “I” and “ father” Writing techniques : go to Writing devices Theme of the story: go to the next page The end of General Analysis.

The theme is summed up at the very end. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis Theme of the story The theme is summed up at the very end. This is a story about an interesting character told by his son who later became a well-known writer. With well-selected anecdotes and using the tone of a little boy, the author gives a vivid character sketch of his father whom he used to despise but gradually learns to understand and appreciate when he grows up. The end of Theme.

Text Analysis Structure of the text Description of father’s Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis Structure of the text Description of father’s image before the discovery. Part 1 (paras. ) about: Part 2 (paras. ) about: 1–25 How the boy “discovered” a father. 26–41 The end of Structure.

Analysis of Father’s Image Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis Analysis of Father’s Image in the eyes of others in the eyes of the son Scan the text and list out the related information. a failure a clown a loafer a windbag popular with others mother’s pride instead of complaint generous kind-hearted a natural actor a born-story-teller discovery of a father The end of Analysis of Father’s Image.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis The Use of Symbols Scan the text and list out the related information. Two Symbols:　 symbol one: the setting symbol two: swimming in the dark To be continued on the next page.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis The Use of Symbols Symbolic meanings Symbol 1: the setting a wet night father coming back after being away for two or three weeks clothes dripping in terrible financial difficulties again not having much luck in getting help from his friends To be continued on the next page.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis The Use of Symbols What suddenly dawns on the boy Description of father sitting in a chair for a long time with the saddest look not uttering a word looking at his son closely and seriously not the irresponsible happy-go-lucky person he used to be not a windbag any more father loves him To be continued on the next page.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis The Use of Symbols Symbolic meanings Symbol 2 : swimming in the dark a man who is dignified powerful loving ready to face the harsh life father and son completely naked striking out together in the dark To be continued on the next page.

The end of Text Analysis. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Text Analysis The Use of Symbols What suddenly dawns on the boy Description of father not foolish not a clown not a windbag just too generous too kind-hearted loving life and people a natural actor, a born story-teller, a born writer communicating with the son trying to give him courage and strength The end of Text Analysis.

Syntactic Anaphora (Repetition of Beginning Words) Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Writing Devices Syntactic Anaphora (Repetition of Beginning Words) More examples It was a feeling of closeness. It was something strange. It was as though there were only we two in the world. It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father. This is the most common kind of sentence repetition. To be continued on the next page.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Writing Devices Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I could have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps. And here you are the mothers’ laps. (Walt Whitman: Song of Myself) More examples To be continued on the next page.

To be continued on the next page. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Writing Devices Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with the iron leg, from whom an awful promise had been extracted;… (C. Dickens: Great Expectations) The repetition of the words brings out vividly the extent of the boy’s terror, increased by the fear that he might not succeed in keeping his promise. To be continued on the next page.

(Repetition of Ending words) Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Writing Devices Syntactic Epiphora (Repetition of Ending words) More examples It was as though I had been jerked suddenly out of my world of the schoolboy, out of a world in which I was ashamed of my father. To be continued on the next page.

The end of Writing Devices Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father Writing Devices And then suddenly the machines pushed them out and they swarmed on the highways. The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the hunger itself, changed them. The children without dinner changed them; the endless moving changed them. They were migrants. And the hostility changed them. They welded them, united them… (John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath) The end of Writing Devices

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