1. Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
Part Three
Text Appreciation
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2. Text Appreciation Contents Text Analysis II. Sentence Paraphrase
Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor
Text Appreciation
Contents
Text Analysis
1. General Analysis
2. Structure
3. Further Discussion
II. Sentence Paraphrase

3. Text Analysis Plot of the story Setting of the story
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Text Analysis
Have you got the key elements in the story?
Plot of the story
Setting of the story
Protagonists of the story
For reference
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4. The end of General Analysis.
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Text Analysis
Plot: Ausable appears helpless, but he gets rid of his deadly enemy without lifting a finger.
Setting: a French hotel room
Protagonists: Ausable, Fowler, Max and a waiter
For reference.
The end of General Analysis.

5. Text Analysis Structure of the text Part 1 (paras. ) about:
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Text Analysis
Structure of the text
Part 1 (paras ) about:
Part 2 (paras ) about:
Part 3 (paras ) about:
1—5
Who Ausable is. & why Fowler wants to see him.
6—16
The unexpected visit of Ausable’s adversary Max.
17—26
How Ausable outwits Max and makes him jump on the “balcony”.
The end of Structure.

6. Further discussion about the story
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Further discussion about the story
Questions:
… come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5) What is meant by this sentence? Where would this important paper probably go from Ausable?
I am going to raise the devil with the management this time; … (para. 11) What does the word “management” refer to here?
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7. Further discussion about the story
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Further discussion about the story
Stage 1:
Text Glimpse
What was Fowler’s first impression of Ausable?
How did Fowler get his first thrilling experience of the day?
How did Ausable deal with the situation?
How did Ausable finally outwit Max?
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8. Further discussion about the story
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Further discussion about the story
Stage 2:
Making character sketches: physical appearance; how the person acts, talks, thinks and deals with persons.
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9. Further discussion about the story
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Further discussion about the story
Stage 3:
Group Activities
Retell the text in your own words.
Find words and phrases that can sum up your impressions of Ausable.
Try to turn the passage into a little play and act it out.
The end of Text Analysis.

10. II. Sentence Paraphrase 1
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 1
Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French
and German passably, he had never altogether lost the
New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston
twenty years ago (para. 2)
for one reason (why Fowler was disappointed)
Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.
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11. II. Sentence Paraphrase 2
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 2
Ausable said wheezily… (para. 3)
Ausable was so fat that he had difficulty breathing.
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 3
… a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4)
More Examples
(old-fashioned) women who are very beautiful
put into one’s hand quietly, secretly and quickly
… an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.
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13. II. Sentence Paraphrase
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II. Sentence Paraphrase
Examples:
He slipped some money into the official’s hand.
She slipped a piece of paper under the door.
We won’t let him slip through our fingers.
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14. II. Sentence Paraphrase 4
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 4
The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)
when; while
the opposite of the action “to lock”
feeling discouraged or dissatisfied
The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.
The “ed” –adjective is used as attribute in this sentence.
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15. II. Sentence Paraphrase 5
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 5
You are disillusioned. (para. 5)
The “ed” –adjective is used as predicative in this sentence.
You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.
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16. II. Sentence Paraphrase 6
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 6
Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)
an official document; a report
In this attributive clause the relative pronoun “which” is the object of the preposition “for” rather than of the verb in the clause.
Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.
By then I will have fulfilled my mission.
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17. II. Sentence Paraphrase 7
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 7
For halfway across the room, a small automatic
pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)
In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.
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18. II. Sentence Paraphrase 8
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 8
… you gave me quite a start. (para. 8)
You frightened me. / You surprised me.
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19. II. Sentence Paraphrase 9
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 9
I’m going to raise the devil with the management
this time. (para. 11)
the people in charge of the hotel rather than
the act of operating the hotel
He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.
To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 10
It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)
More Examples
subjunctive mood
If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.
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21. II. Sentence Paraphrase
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II. Sentence Paraphrase
Examples:
Had she taken that train, she might have been killed, too.
Had I met him, I would have recognized him.
She would not have died had she had some
money.
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 11
I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)
More Examples
subjunctive mood
I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.
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23. II. Sentence Paraphrase
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II. Sentence Paraphrase
Examples:
I wish I knew.
I wish I could.
I wish I were 20 years younger.
I wish I were you.
I wish he were still alive.
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24. II. Sentence Paraphrase 12
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II. Sentence Paraphrase 12
Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22)
More Examples
The “ed” –adjective is used as object complement in this sentence.
He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest .
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25. II. Sentence Paraphrase
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II. Sentence Paraphrase
Examples of different meanings of “cover”:
I’ll blow up that bridge. You cover me.
The enemy guns covered the whole city. It was no longer safe to stay.
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