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The analyses of a text #3
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
After the funeral of his old nurse Peggotty's husband, he visited Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's house.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham and his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly are due to come.
Mr. Peggottys always lights a candle for lighting the way Em'ly comes home along.
Now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Mrs. Gummidge who lives off him.
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'Theer!'said Mr. Peggotty, cheerily.'Theer we are, Missis Gummidge!' Mrs. Gummidge slightly groaned. 'Lighted up, accordin' to custom! You're a wonderin' what that's fur, sir! Well, it's fur our little Em'ly. You see, the path ain't over light or cheerful arter dark; and when I'm here at the hour as she's a comin' home, I puts the light in the winder. That, you see,' said Mr. Peggotty, bending over me with great glee, 'meets two objects. She says, says Em'ly, "Theer's home!" she says. And likewise, says Em'ly, "My uncle's theer!" Fur if I ain't theer, I never have no light showed.'
'You're a baby!' said Peggotty; very fond of him for it, if she thought so.
'Well,' returned Mr. Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at.'
'Not azackly,' observed Peggotty.
'No,' laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to - to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you. When I go a looking and looking about that theer pritty house of our Em'ly's, I'm - I'm Gormed,' said Mr. Peggotty, with sudden emphasis - 'theer! I can't say more - if I doen't feel as if the littlest things was her, a'most. I takes 'em up and I put 'em down, and I touches of 'em as delicate as if they was our Em'ly. So 'tis with her little bonnets and that. I couldn't see one on 'em rough used a purpose - not fur the whole wureld. There's a babby fur you, in the form of a great Sea Porkypine!' said Mr. Peggotty, relieving his earnestness with a roar of laughter.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know why it is "you," not "I."
1. I'd like to know what you think of "two objects" as.
3. I'd like to know why it is "I never have no light showed," not "I never have light showed."
4. And I'd like to know if the subject of "to look at" is people.
Thank you in advance for your help.
After the funeral of his old nurse Peggotty's husband, he visited Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's house.
Mr. Peggotty's nephew, adapted son Ham and his niece, Ham's fiance Em'ly are due to come.
Mr. Peggottys always lights a candle for lighting the way Em'ly comes home along.
Now Mr. Peggotty is talking to Mrs. Gummidge who lives off him.
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'Theer!'said Mr. Peggotty, cheerily.'Theer we are, Missis Gummidge!' Mrs. Gummidge slightly groaned. 'Lighted up, accordin' to custom! You're a wonderin' what that's fur, sir! Well, it's fur our little Em'ly. You see, the path ain't over light or cheerful arter dark; and when I'm here at the hour as she's a comin' home, I puts the light in the winder. That, you see,' said Mr. Peggotty, bending over me with great glee, 'meets two objects. She says, says Em'ly, "Theer's home!" she says. And likewise, says Em'ly, "My uncle's theer!" Fur if I ain't theer, I never have no light showed.'
'You're a baby!' said Peggotty; very fond of him for it, if she thought so.
'Well,' returned Mr. Peggotty, standing with his legs pretty wide apart, and rubbing his hands up and down them in his comfortable satisfaction, as he looked alternately at us and at the fire. 'I doen't know but I am. Not, you see, to look at.'
'Not azackly,' observed Peggotty.
'No,' laughed Mr. Peggotty, 'not to look at, but to - to consider on, you know. I doen't care, bless you! Now I tell you. When I go a looking and looking about that theer pritty house of our Em'ly's, I'm - I'm Gormed,' said Mr. Peggotty, with sudden emphasis - 'theer! I can't say more - if I doen't feel as if the littlest things was her, a'most. I takes 'em up and I put 'em down, and I touches of 'em as delicate as if they was our Em'ly. So 'tis with her little bonnets and that. I couldn't see one on 'em rough used a purpose - not fur the whole wureld. There's a babby fur you, in the form of a great Sea Porkypine!' said Mr. Peggotty, relieving his earnestness with a roar of laughter.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know why it is "you," not "I."
1. I'd like to know what you think of "two objects" as.
3. I'd like to know why it is "I never have no light showed," not "I never have light showed."
4. And I'd like to know if the subject of "to look at" is people.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Here are my answers: 1. It is "you" because Mr. Peggotty is imagining what Mrs.
- Here are my answers: 1.
- It is "you" because Mr.
- Peggotty is imagining what Mrs.
- Gummidge might be thinking, not what he himself is thinking.
- 2.
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Here are my answers:
1. It is "you" because Mr. Peggotty is imagining what Mrs. Gummidge might be thinking, not what he himself is thinking.
2. The "two objects" (or, the two goals, or two results) of lighting the candle are
First: it shows Emily where her house is. Second, it tells here that her uncle is home. (Because if he wasn't home, he couldn't light the cand
1. It is "you" because Mr. Peggotty is imagining what Mrs. Gummidge might be thinking, not what he himself is thinking.
2. The "two objects" (or, the two goals, or two results) of lighting the candle are
First: it shows Emily where her house is. Second, it tells here that her uncle is home. (Because if he wasn't home, he couldn't light the cand
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Thank you, Doctor D, for another so very helpful answer from you.
4. Then I was wondering if the subject of "to look at me"
4. Then I was wondering if the subject of "to look at me"
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