Part Three,Text Appreciation,ENTER,Text Appreciation,I. Text Analysis 1. Theme 2. Structure 3. Further Discussion Writing Devices 1. Contrast 2. Innuendo III. Sentence Paraphrase,Contents,Text Analysis,The idea of racism is a theme in the story, for the implication of the husbands racism is what causes the couple to quarrel. The wife dislikes her husbands beliefs that African Americans are different from whites. He maintains that it is not that he is prejudiced against African Americans, but that they come from a different culture and they even have their own language. The husbands negative response to Anns question of whether he would marry her were she African American indicates the pervasive and destructive nature of his racism.,The end of Theme.,Part 1 (Para. 1 ): Part 2 (Paras. 251): Part 3 (Para. 52 ):,Text Analysis,The husband and wife maintain a harmonious relationship with each other.,The husband is questioned by his wife about his view on a white persons marrying a black person.,He has a strange feeling of uneasiness in the dark.,The end of Structure.,Text Analysis,To be continued on the next page.,Question: Is the quarrel between the husband and wife an ordinary quarrel? What does the talk touch upon? Who do you think is responsible for the quarrel?,It touches upon the issue of racism.,Text Analysis,To be continued on the next page.,He was a hypocrite(伪善的) and a terrible racist.,Question: Is the husband a considerate and honest man? What kind of man is he?,Text Analysis,Question: Does the man oppose marriage between a black and a white? What are his arguments?,To be continued on the next page.,He opposes the marriage between a black and a white. His basic arguments are that blacks and whites have different cultures. They cannot know each other.,Text Analysis,Question: What kind of woman is the wife? Is she too critical? What does she think the marriage between blacks and whites?,She is honest and square. She thinks the marriage between a black and a white is perfectly natural, if they love each other.,To be continued on the next page.,Question: Why does the woman corner her husband by keeping asking him whether he would marry her if she were black?,Text Analysis,She seems to have found that her husband has subtle racist nature.,To be continued on the next page.,Text Analysis,Question: Do you think the husband knows his wife very well?,He seems to understand her wife well and is confident of manipulating any awkward situation. But actually, to him his wife is a stranger.,To be continued on the next page.,When the husband got the look where the wife pinched her brows together and bit her lip, he knew he should keep his mouth shut. But he never did. Instead, it made him talk more. What can you infer from the above description? “Listen, I went to school with blacks, and Ive worked with blacks and weve got along just fine. I dont need you coming along now and implying that Im a racist.” What can we conclude about the husband?,Text Analysis,To be continued on the next page.,When he said “They even have their own language”, what did the husband imply? When the wife said “but if they love each other?”, the husband thought “Oh, boy”. What was he actually thinking? He was angry with her for resorting to the trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. Do his words sound hypocritical or is he hypocritical?,Text Analysis,The end of Text Analysis.,II. Writing Devices,considerate: pitch in on the housework, come to the aid out of concern, ask to complete the dish-washing ,Scan the text and list out the related information.,The end of Contrast.,Contrast: to show the hypocritical nature of the husband and the subtlety of his racist nature,Innuendo: an indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation暗讽,Writing Devices,He thought of years they had spent together, and how close they are, and how well they knew each other (Para. 43),The room was silent. His heart pounded the way it had on their first night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and waited to hear it againthe sound of someone moving through the house, a stranger. (Para. 52),The end of Writing Devices.,Sentence Paraphrase 1,All the things considered, he thought it was a bad idea. (Para. 2),absolute construction,go to 2,Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip. (Para. 4),“Where” is used to indicate a relative clause. It can be used after words referring to an aspect of a situation, or a stage in sth.,Sentence Paraphrase 2,He squeezed to see how deep the wound was. (Para. 18),Noun clause introduced by “how” functions as the object of “see”.,go to 3,Pun: “Wound” refers to both the cut and injury to feelings.,Sentence Paraphrase 3,“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resorting to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (Para. 16),spok