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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is now famous writer.
Traddles is his old friend and a lawyer.
The narrator and Traddles were invited to a prison by Mr. Creakle, a Middlesex Magistrate who works for it, the schoolmaster as children.
They are now touring the prison withe other visitors.
Chapter 61 I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
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As we were going through some of the magnificent passages, I inquired of Mr. Creakle and his friends what were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system? I found them to be the perfect isolation of prisoners - so that no one man in confinement there, knew anything about another; and the reduction of prisoners to a wholesome state of mind, leading to sincere contrition and repentance.
Now, it struck me, when we began to visit individuals in their cells, and to traverse the passages in which those cells were, and to have the manner of the going to chapel and so forth, explained to us, that there was a strong probability of the prisoners knowing a good deal about each other, and of their carrying on a pretty complete system of intercourse.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if them refers to "the main advantages."
2. And I'd like to know if "I found" is implied after "and."
3. I think the subject of "explained" is "it."
If so, I was wondering what "it" refers to.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is now famous writer.
Traddles is his old friend and a lawyer.
The narrator and Traddles were invited to a prison by Mr. Creakle, a Middlesex Magistrate who works for it, the schoolmaster as children.
They are now touring the prison withe other visitors.
Chapter 61 I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS
.................................
As we were going through some of the magnificent passages, I inquired of Mr. Creakle and his friends what were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system? I found them to be the perfect isolation of prisoners - so that no one man in confinement there, knew anything about another; and the reduction of prisoners to a wholesome state of mind, leading to sincere contrition and repentance.
Now, it struck me, when we began to visit individuals in their cells, and to traverse the passages in which those cells were, and to have the manner of the going to chapel and so forth, explained to us, that there was a strong probability of the prisoners knowing a good deal about each other, and of their carrying on a pretty complete system of intercourse.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if them refers to "the main advantages."
2. And I'd like to know if "I found" is implied after "and."
3. I think the subject of "explained" is "it."
If so, I was wondering what "it" refers to.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. Yes. 2.
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- Yes.
- 2.
- No.
- The pattern is "I found them to be X and Y".
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1. Yes.
2. No. The pattern is "I found them to be X and Y". This cannot be replaced by "I found them to be X and I found Y".
3. No, "explained" is a participle with passive intent. Someone explained to them the manner of the going to chapel and so forth. The whole of "when we began ... explained to us" is an adverbial insertion into the core "it struck me that ...".
2. No. The pattern is "I found them to be X and Y". This cannot be replaced by "I found them to be X and I found Y".
3. No, "explained" is a participle with passive intent. Someone explained to them the manner of the going to chapel and so forth. The whole of "when we began ... explained to us" is an adverbial insertion into the core "it struck me that ...".
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