Lesson 1-Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis 2 Question: What do the three statuettes symbolize? What effect do the boy's descriptions have? They represented the whole of life. The leopard stood for all animal needs or desires Venus stood for love and the thinker stood for thin king as a uniquely human feature. An humorous and sarcastic effect has been achieved by the author's description of the statuettes which established a background to support his later analysis of three grades of thinking and some human natures W BTL E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis They represented the whole of life. The leopard stood for all animal needs or desires; Venus stood for love and the Thinker stood for thinking as a uniquely human feature. An humorous and sarcastic effect has been achieved by the author’s description of the statuettes, which established a background to support his later analysis of three grades of thinking and some human natures. To be continued on the next page. Question: What do the three statuettes symbolize? What effect do the boy’s descriptions have? W B T LL E
Lesson 1-Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis 3 Question: How did the author describe the following figures to demonstrate his analyses of different grades of thinking Headmaster: nothing human in his eyes, no possibility of communication(not understand his students) Me, the boy: delinquent, not integrated misunderstanding the symbolic meaning of the statuettes, couldnt think Mr. Houghton: ruined by alcohol, preaching high-moral life but showing hypocritical and prejudiced nature A pious lady: who hated German with the proposition of loving enemies W B TL E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. Question: How did the author describe the following figures to demonstrate his analyses of different grades of thinking? Headmaster: nothing human in his eyes, no possibility of communication (not understand his students) Me, the boy: delinquent, not integrated, misunderstanding the symbolic meaning of the statuettes, couldn’t think Mr. Houghton: ruined by alcohol, preaching high-moral life but showing hypocritical and prejudiced nature A pious lady: who hated German with the proposition of loving enemies
Lesson 1-Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis 4 Question: How did the author describe the following figures to demonstrate his analyses of different grades of thinking? Ruth: foolish argument, illogical and fled at last British Prime Minister: talking about the great benefit conferring on India by jailing Nehru and Gandhi American politicians: talking about peace and refusing to join the League of Nations Me, the author: not easily stampede, detect contradiction; turned into a professional thinker W B TL E To be continued on the next page
W B T L E Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis To be continued on the next page. Ruth: foolish argument, illogical and fled at last British Prime Minister: talking about the great benefit conferring on India by jailing Nehru and Gandhi American politicians: talking about peace and refusing to join the League of Nations Me, the author: not easily stampede, detect contradiction; turned into a professional thinker Question: How did the author describe the following figures to demonstrate his analyses of different grades of thinking?
Lesson 1-Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis The summary of the characteristics of the three grades of thinking thinking characteristics examples Ignorance, hypocrisy, Mr. Houghton Grade-threeI prejudice, self-satisfied, nine tens of contradictions people Detecting contradictions; Ruth, the Grade-two do not stampede easily, author,(maybe) lag behind, a withdrawal, some destroy but not create acquaintances o find out what is truth far and few Grade-one based on a logical moral between,only system in books W B TL E The end of General Analysis
W B T L E Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis The summary of the characteristics of the three grades of thinking Grade-three Grade-two Grade-one characteristics examples Ignorance, hypocrisy, prejudice, self-satisfied, contradictions Mr. Houghton, nine tens of people Detecting contradictions; do not stampede easily; lag behind, a withdrawal, destroy but not create Ruth, the author, (maybe) some acquaintances To find out what is truth, based on a logical moral system far and few between, only in books thinking The end of General Analysis
Lesson 1-Thinking as a Hobby I. Text Analysis Further Questions on Appreciation 1 What does the author mean when he say .I dropped my hobby and turned professional"? +2. Why is the author much more conclusive and informative about grade-three and grade-two thinking than about grade-one? What do you think grade-one thinking is? Have you got any indication from the essay? +3. Give examples of Goldings wit. Does his sense of humor and the use of some writing devices help him achieve his purpose in this essay? Give some examples W BTL E The end of Text Analysis
W B T L E Lesson 1—Thinking as a Hobby 1. What does the author mean when he say “… I dropped my hobby and turned professional”? 2. Why is the author much more conclusive and informative about grade-three and grade-two thinking than about grade-one? What do you think grade-one thinking is? Have you got any indication from the essay? 3. Give examples of Golding’s wit. Does his sense of humor and the use of some writing devices help him achieve his purpose in this essay? Give some examples. I. Text Analysis Further Questions on Appreciation W B T LL E The end of Text Analysis