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Text Text AppreciatioAppreciationn

I. Text Analysis 1. General Analysis2. Theme3. Structure4. Analysis of Father’s Image

5. The Use of Symbols

II.Writing Devices1. Syntactic Anaphora2. Syntactic Epiphora

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Plot of the story

Setting of the story

Protagonists of the story

Writing techniques of the story

Theme of the story

I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisHave you

got the key elements in the story?

For reference

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General Analysis

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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

I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

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General Analysis

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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

Theme of the storyThe theme is summed up at the very end.

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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.

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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

Structure of the text

1–25

26–41

Description of father’s

image before the discovery.

How the boy “discovered” a

father.

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisAnalysis of Father’s Image

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in the eyes of the son in the eyes of others

a failure

a clown a loafer a windbag

popular with othersmother’s pride instead of complaint

d

iscovery of a father

generous

kind-hearted a natural actor a born-story-teller

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I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

The Use of SymbolsScan the text and list out the related information.

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Two Symbols: 　

symbol one: the setting

symbol two: swimming in the dark

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisThe Use of Symbols

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Symbol 1: the setting

a wet night

father coming back after being away for two or three weeks

clothes dripping

Symbolic meanings

in terrible financial difficulties again

not having much luck in getting help from his friends

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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

What suddenly dawns

on the boy

not the irresponsible happy-go-lucky person he used to be

not a windbag any more

father loves him

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I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisThe Use of Symbols

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Symbol 2 : swimming in the dark

Symbolic meanings

father and son completely naked

striking out together in the dark

a man who is

dignified

powerful

loving

ready to face the

harsh life

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Description of father

communicating with the son

trying to give him courage and strength

What suddenly dawns

on the boynot foolishnot a clown not a windbagjust too generoustoo kind-heartedloving life and peoplea natural actor, a born story-teller, a bornwriter

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

Syntactic Anaphora (Repetition of Beginning Words)

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.

More examples

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

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

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

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.

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

Syntactic Epiphora (Repetition of Ending words)

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.

More examples

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II.II. Writing Writing DevicesDevices

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)

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