1. Lesson 2 – Discovery of a Father
Part Three
Text Appreciation
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2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. The theme is summed up at the very end.
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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.

6. 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.

7. 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
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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.

8. To be continued on the next page.
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Text Analysis
The Use of Symbols
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Two Symbols:　
symbol one: the setting
symbol two: swimming in the dark
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9. 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
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10. To be continued on the next page.
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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
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11. 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
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12. 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.

13. 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.
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14. To be continued on the next page.
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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
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15. To be continued on the next page.
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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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16. (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.

17. 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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