1. Part Three
Text Appreciation
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2. Text Appreciation Contents I. Text Analysis Writing Devices
1. Theme
2. Structure
3. Further Discussion
Writing Devices
1. Contrast
2. Innuendo
III. Sentence Paraphrase

3. Text Analysis Theme of the Text
The idea of racism is a theme in the story, for the implication of the husband’s racism is what causes the couple to quarrel. The wife dislikes her husband’s beliefs that African Americans are different from whites. He maintains that it is not that he is prejudiced against African Americans, but that they come from a different culture and they even have their own language. The husband’s negative response to Ann’s question of whether he would marry her were she African American indicates the pervasive and destructive nature of his racism.
The end of Theme.

4. Text Analysis Structure of the Text
The husband and wife maintain a harmonious relationship with each other.
Part 1 (Para ):
Part 2 (Paras. 2—51):
Part 3 (Para ):
The husband is questioned by his wife about his view on a white person’s marrying a black person.
He has a strange feeling of uneasiness in the dark.
The end of Structure.

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Text Analysis
Question: Is the quarrel between the husband and wife an ordinary quarrel? What does the talk touch upon? Who do you think is responsible for the quarrel? 
It touches upon the issue of racism.
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Text Analysis
Question: Is the husband a considerate and honest man? What kind of man is he? 
He was a hypocrite and a terrible racist.
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Text Analysis
Question: Does the man oppose marriage between a black and a white? What are his arguments? 
He opposes the marriage between a black and a white.
His basic arguments are that blacks and whites have different cultures. They cannot know each other.
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Text Analysis
Question: What kind of woman is the wife? Is she too critical? What does she think the marriage between blacks and whites? 
She is honest and square. She thinks the marriage between a black and a white is perfectly natural, if they love each other.
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Text Analysis
Question: Why does the woman corner her husband by keeping asking him whether he would marry her if she were black? 
She seems to have found that her husband has subtle racist nature.
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Text Analysis
Question: Do you think the husband knows his wife very well? 
He seems to understand her wife well and is confident of manipulating any awkward situation. But actually, to him his wife is a stranger.
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11. Further Discussion About the Text
Text Analysis
Further Discussion About the Text
When the husband got the look where the wife pinched her brows together and bit her lip, he knew he should keep his mouth shut. But he never did. Instead, it made him talk more. What can you infer from the above description?
“Listen, I went to school with blacks, and I’ve worked with blacks and we’ve got along just fine. I don’t need you coming along now and implying that I’m a racist.” What can we conclude about the husband?
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12. Further Discussion About the Text
Text Analysis
Further Discussion About the Text
When he said “They even have their own language”, what did the husband imply?
When the wife said “but if they love each other?”, the husband thought “Oh, boy”. What was he actually thinking?
He was angry with her for resorting to the trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. Do his words sound hypocritical or is he hypocritical?
The end of Text Analysis.

13. Scan the text and list out the related information.
II Writing Devices
Scan the text and list out the related information.
Contrast
Contrast: to show the hypocritical nature of the husband and the subtlety of his racist nature
appearance
innermost being
hypocritical
He is excited by her anger to challenge her.
His concern for her is for her appreciation.
Send her away to stop the conversation as he is tired of it.
He felt ashamed that he had let his wife get him into the fight.
He knew that he had to come up with the right answer…
considerate:
pitch in on the housework,
come to the aid out of concern,
ask to complete the dish-washing …
The end of Contrast.

14. The end of Writing Devices.
Innuendo: an indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation
Innuendo
He thought of years they had spent together, and how close they are, and how well they knew each other… (Para. 43)
The room was silent. His heart pounded the way it had on their first night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and waited to hear it again—the sound of someone moving through the house, a stranger. (Para. 52)
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15. Sentence Paraphrase 1
All the things considered, he thought it was a bad idea. (Para. 2)
absolute construction
Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip. (Para. 4)
“Where” is used to indicate a relative clause. It can be used after words referring to an aspect of a situation, or a stage in sth.
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16. Sentence Paraphrase 2 He squeezed to see how deep the wound was.
Noun clause introduced by “how” functions as the object of “see”.
Pun: “Wound” refers to both the cut and injury to feelings.
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17. Sentence Paraphrase 3
“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resorting to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (Para. 16)
appositive structure linked by “of”
to turn to the help of the trick
adjective phrase as subject complement
spoke abruptly and sharply
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18. Sentence Paraphrase 4
While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (Para. 42)
he was doing the dishes
had better
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19. The end of Sentence Paraphrase.
He thought the years they had spent together, and how close they were, and how well they knew each other, and his throat tightened so that he could hardly breathe. (Para. 43)
“as a result” introducing an adverbial clause of result
objective clauses of “thought”
The end of Sentence Paraphrase.

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