2h Written Assignment 3: Essay on ”The Large Ant”Feedback
2h Written Assignment 3: Essay on ”The Large Ant”
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Sprog 1: ordforråd
Human (subst.) : a bipedal primate mammal (Homo sapiens) : man; broadly : hominid (biologisk fokus) Human being Synonym for ”person”. Men afsmitning fra ”human” (her adj.) Man, humanity, mankind b : the human race : humankind (ikke nødv. Biologisk fokus – kan også være moralsk, psykologisk etc.) People/person (ikke persons) Brug disse ord når du ikke vil understrege det biologiske aspekt (”a bipedal primate mammal”)
Slå “human” op. ‹#›
Sprog 2: Fejlsætninger
We hear about Mr. Morgan, I consider him to be middle-aged, he is really in his comfort zone. The story tells us that our development and civilization was not as great as we thought. An internal conflict, as he kills it without blinking, but he knows himself that he did not actually mean to hurt it. That the ants have come to test the humans…
Stn. 1: comma splice Stn. 2: spring I tid. Skriv i præsens. Stn. 3: sætningsfragment. Stn. 4: Ledsætning, der står alene. ‹#›
Citatteknik - at udvælge relevante citater
“…we have never been any good at changing ourselves or the way we behave” (p. 782) “We don´t look carefully at a thing that is horrible or repugnant to us” (p. 789) “I am a also a writer, and I told Lieberman, the curator, and Fitzgerald, the government man, that I would like to write down the story.” (p. 782) “Would you mind telling us why you killed it Mr. Morgan” (p. 786) “Like a criminal who can no longer live with himself, I am content to be judged…”
Hvilket citat er vigtigst her? Hvilket er mindst vigtigt? Hvilke to er ikke så vigtige? ‹#›
Avoid mechanical analysis - connect analysis and interpretation
Why is it important? The use of a first person narrator That the protagonist/narrator is “an ordinary, humane person” That the protagonist/narrator is a writer That the protagonist reads Life on the Mississippi The mention of the atom bomb in the first paragraph The fact that the story is told by as a flashback.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twin of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. He looks back on the river with great affection and describes the loss of pure nature through the competition with railways etc. as modern means of transport. In Twain´s view the Mississippi has been destroyed by modern technology and man´s greed. ‹#›
Defamiliarization
A literary technique – used to create suspense: “Later on Fast uses suspense to engage his reader again. When Mr. Morgan fist meets the ant, we do not know that it is an ant: “I was just reaching for a fresh cigarette, when I looked up and saw it on the foot of my bed”. For several pages the ant is referred to as “it”, and it is not described until it is brought to the museum.” (Prip)
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