Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Part Three
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Text Appreciation
I. Text Analysis
1. General Analysis
2. Theme
3. Structure
4. Analysis of Father’s Image
5. The Use of Symbols
II.Writing Devices
1. Syntactic Anaphora
2. Syntactic Epiphora
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
General Analysis
Plot of the story
Setting of the story
Protagonists of the story
Writing techniques of the story
Theme of the story
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Have you
got the key
elements in
the story?
For reference
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
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
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The end of General Analysis.
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
Theme of the story
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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The end of Theme.
The theme
is summed
up at the
very end.
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
Structure of the text
Part 1 (paras. 1–25) about:
Part 2 (paras. 26–41) about:
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Description of father’s
image before the discovery.
How the boy “discovered” a
father.
The end of Structure.
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
Analysis of Father’s Image
in the eyes of the son
a failure
a clown
a loafer
a windbag
discovery
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popular with
others
mother’s
pride instead
of complaint
of a father
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in the eyes of others
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generous
kind-hearted
a natural actor
a born-story-teller
The end of Analysis of Father’s Image.
Scan the text
and list out
the related
information.
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
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
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Symbol 1:
the setting
Symbolic meanings
a wet night
father coming back
after being away for
two or three weeks
clothes dripping
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in terrible financial
difficulties again
not having much luck
in getting help from
his friends
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Description of father
What suddenly dawns
on the boy
sitting in a chair for a long time not the irresponsible
with the saddest look
happy-go-lucky person
he used to be
not uttering a word
looking at his son closely and
seriously
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not a windbag any more
father loves him
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Symbol 2 :
swimming in the dark
Symbolic meanings
a man who is
father and son completely
naked
striking out together in the
dark
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dignified
powerful
loving
ready to face the
harsh life
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
I.
Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
Description of father
What suddenly dawns
on the boy
not foolish
not a clown
communicating with the
not a windbag
son
just too generous
trying to give him courage
too kind-hearted
and strength
loving life and people
a natural actor, a born
story-teller, a born
writer
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The end of Text Analysis.
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
II.
Writing Devices
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.
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More examples
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
II.
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)
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More examples
Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
II.
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.
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
II.
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.
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Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
II.
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)
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The end of Writing Devices
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