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2017 LA Club - Week 1

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Anonymous:

--- Quote from: Anonymous on May 02, 2017, 05:56:27 pm ---I might be completely off here, so someone please correct me if I am, but I don't think you've interpreted the material correctly. The Washington Post isn't suggesting that Lee's life was tragic in the sense that it was full of failure and misery, but more so in the vein of a tragic hero that conventionally loses an original high status. Through the use of 'tragedy', they posit that Lee embodies this quality in that she was originally this awesome writer who wrote to herald social change, but is now, in steep descent, one that does so for public demand and no other meaningful intent. Also, the author isn't that bitter and forceful in his disapproval as you portray him as out to be, it's more like a "no, you guys are wrong" with a mocking yet passive "shut up please" at the end. Words like "condemn" and "denounce" sort of exaggerate his disapproval, and one's like "reject" are probably more correct. Nevertheless, I still marked your piece but in assumption that these misinterpretations skewed your analysis, I just marked accordingly to how you've read it. Hope it still helps :).

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Thanks for the feedback. I thought that I interpreted the tragedy the same way you did. I thought that the tragedy was that the second book tarnished Harper Lee's reputation, rather than the idea that her life was full of failure and misery. Maybe it was confusing because I didn't introduce the context and used the word tragedy often, which has negative connotations of sadness and grief throughout the essay. But, I agree with the rest of your comments and I'll watch my use of words.

zhen:

--- Quote from: Anonymous on May 02, 2017, 06:16:56 pm ---Thanks for the feedback. I thought that I interpreted the tragedy the same way you did. I thought that the tragedy was that the second book tarnished Harper Lee's reputation, rather than the idea that her life was full of failure and misery. Maybe it was confusing because I didn't introduce the context and used the word tragedy often, which has negative connotations of sadness and grief throughout the essay. But, I agree with the rest of your comments and I'll watch my use of words.

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Whoops. Forgot to tick the box.  :-\

Anonymous:
can someone send me a list of all language techniques that are way better than that of the web's, thanks!

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: zhen on May 02, 2017, 06:18:03 pm ---Thanks for the feedback. I thought that I interpreted the tragedy the same way you did. I thought that the tragedy was that the second book tarnished Harper Lee's reputation, rather than the idea that her life was full of failure and misery. Maybe it was confusing because I didn't introduce the context and used the word tragedy often, which has negative connotations of sadness and grief throughout the essay. But, I agree with the rest of your comments and I'll watch my use of words.
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Oh whoops, I must've interpreted you wrong (oh the irony). And yeah, I also think your piece is missing that context, specifically that of Lee's reputation/legacy as an author who challenged her society's inherent prejudices.

clarke54321:
In his letter to the editor, Charles Slack employs a mocking tone to destabilise the belief that Harper Lee’s legacy as a writer has become unrightfully tarnished. Slack’s use of inverted commas around the phrase ‘tragic story,’ indicates his inability to understand why Lee’s career has been casted as devastating or miserable. Rather, the commas assist Slack in conveying the idea that Lee’s story is far from tragic and that reactions have been grossly exaggerated. Encouraging readers to also adopt this viewpoint, Slack relies on the objective idiom, ‘let’s see.’ Here, Slack intends to establish himself as an impartial commentator of the situation, who seeks to lay out the raw facts and reach an unbiased conclusion. Striving for this approach to induce trust and confidence in readers, Slack assuredly asserts that Lee’s newly discovered novel, ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ ‘inspires new and impassioned conversations about literature and race.’ The verb ‘inspires,’ enables Slack to give pertinence to the idea that conversations have been reignited with a newfound vigour by the aforementioned novel; a vigour, which, as indicated by the adjective ‘new,’ has previously been missing or exhausted in conversation. Consequently, readers are urged to perceive additions to Lee’s work as not a ‘woe[ful] tragedy,’ but as efficacious and advantageous to modern day literature and ultimately, Lee’s name as writer.

 ** I will mark the work of another user tomorrow!  :)

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