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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #5
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He came to his old nurse Peggotty's hometown Yarmouth to meet Peggotty's nephew Ham.
He was looking at a wreck on the shore when he found Ham run to the shore.
The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking up. I saw that she was parting in the middle, and that the life of the solitary man upon the mast hung by a thread. Still, he clung to it. He had a singular red cap on, - not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it. I saw him do it now, and thought I was going distracted, when his action brought an old remembrance to my mind of a once dear friend.
Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water; rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; then drawn again to land. They hauled in hastily.
He was hurt. I saw blood on his face, from where I stood; but he took no thought of that. He seemed hurriedly to give them some directions for leaving him more free - or so I judged from the motion of his arm - and was gone as before.
And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, - when a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone!
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "it" refers to "death-knell."
2. I'd like to know if "was" implied before the blue words because they are sure in the passive voice.
3. And I'd like to know what "from where" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He came to his old nurse Peggotty's hometown Yarmouth to meet Peggotty's nephew Ham.
He was looking at a wreck on the shore when he found Ham run to the shore.
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.................................The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking up. I saw that she was parting in the middle, and that the life of the solitary man upon the mast hung by a thread. Still, he clung to it. He had a singular red cap on, - not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it. I saw him do it now, and thought I was going distracted, when his action brought an old remembrance to my mind of a once dear friend.
Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water; rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; then drawn again to land. They hauled in hastily.
He was hurt. I saw blood on his face, from where I stood; but he took no thought of that. He seemed hurriedly to give them some directions for leaving him more free - or so I judged from the motion of his arm - and was gone as before.
And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, - when a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone!
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "it" refers to "death-knell."
2. I'd like to know if "was" implied before the blue words because they are sure in the passive voice.
3. And I'd like to know what "from where" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon 1. " No. 'red cap' A death knell is the sound of a bell recognizing someone's death.
- park sang joon 1.
- " No.
- 'red cap' A death knell is the sound of a bell recognizing someone's death.
- You can't wave a sound.
- He was waving his cap.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "it" refers to "death-knell."No. 'red cap' A death knell is the sound of a bell recognizing someone's death. You can't wave a sound. He was waving his cap.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know if "was" implied before the blue words because they are sure in the passive voice.You might t
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