II. Writing devices 1. Parallelism 2. Repetition
III. Sentence paraphrase
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Lesson 13- In My Day
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Lesson 13—In My Day
Structure of the text
energetic
She had hurled herself at life with an energy that made her seem always on the run.
never defeated
by life
life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timed, the drugstore cowboy, …
I. Text Analysis
Question: What made the author change his reaction to his mother’s senility?
At the beginning, he tried to argue his mother back to reality from his point of view because he believed that his mother being a normal person would be better for her and her family. But later when he began to look at it from his mother’s point of view, he understood his mother was much happier when she could travel back to her childhood when she was loved and needed. So he would like to travel along with her into her past and understood his mother more.
Part 1 (paras.1— 45) about:
Understanding of a mother from a son’s point of view
Part 2 (paras.46-53) about: Understanding of children from a father’s point of view
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I. Text Analysis
Question: What values do you think were reflected in the mother’s way of life when she was young?
Part 3 (paras.54-55) about: Meeting of the two views
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I.racter of the mother when she was young?
Part Three
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Text Appreciation
I. Text analysis 1. Theme 2. Text structure 3. General analysis 4. Further questions on appreciation
The mother was always on the run and working hard because she believed that hard working is the necessary part of one’s life. Life was a struggle, a fight, a battle for survival, for salvation, and for the glory of God. Only by hard working can one be successful in the end. Those who were lazy, timid, loitering and afraid to tell others the true feelings were losers of the life.
(I) tried to travel along with her on those fantastic journeys into the past.
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straightforward
I tell people exactly what’s on my mind, …
strongwilled
She was a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, …
I could not accept the inevitable.
at the beginning
My impulse was to argue
her back to reality.
later
I soon stopped trying to argue her back to what I considered the real world.
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I. Text Analysis
How did the author react to his mother’s
senility from a son’s point of view?