Smash Thy Neighbor

Supporting idea:
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Extension& Antithesis
Reduction to absurdity
opposite view
Now it is fashionable to rationalize our collaboration in all this by arguing that… (Para.15, line 1)
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Analysis of the root cause
Personal example
Exemplification & Statistics
Supporting idea: As with the social system as a whole, the game has a life of its own. Everyone grows up inside it, accepts it and fulfills its dictates as obediently as helots. (Para. 13, line 1)
Smash Thy Neighbor
By 孙开蒙 1 孙玉琢
Outline
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Background of the Author
• John McMurtry, is University Professor Emeritus1 of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. McMurtry was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in June 2001 by his peers for his outstanding contributions to the study of humanities and social sciences. • Prior to doctoral studies, he was "a professional football player, print and television journalist, academic English teacher and world-traveler".
• (Para. 18, line last but two)
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1. Professor Emeritus: 荣誉教授
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The Gist of the Essay
• The author discussed the brute characteristics of football, accusing it of causing damages or even deaths to the players. Then the author gives an analysis on the reasons behind such “smash your neighbor” phenomenon, which is not peculiar to football, but also exists in many aspects of society.
Authority
Extension
• A recent Harvard study argues that football’s characteristics… (Para.14, line 2)
• Clearly, our sort of football is no sicker than the rest of our society…(Para.14, line 5-12)
Authority
• Supporting idea: Competitive, organized injuring is integral to our way of life, and football is one of the more intelligible mirrors of the whole process: a sort of colorful morality play showing us how exciting and rewarding it is to Smash Thy Neighbor. (Para.14, line last but two)
Trigger for argument
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Trigger for argument
Exemples: Some symptoms began to show in the author’s body. Then the author took a former outstanding player and himself for example, to explain the damages football has given to their bodies.
Exemplification
Supporting idea: Just about anybody who has ever played football for any length of time, has suffered for it later. (Para. 4)
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Football aHale Waihona Puke Baidud war
• (Para. 17, line 2)
2. Watching well-advertised strong men knock other people around, make them hurt, is in the end like other tastes. It doesn’t weaken with feeding and variation in form. It grows.
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The organization of the Essay
Introduction Para. 1-4
1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 47, 8
• Personal example to introduce the topic. • An analogy between football and war. • Description of the phenomenon and analysis of its root cause. • Extension to society. • Conclusion
Statistics
According to one American survey, more than 80 percent of all football injuries occur to fully equipped players. (Para. 10, line 5)
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Extension& Antithesis
Body Para. 5-16
9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Conclusion Para. 17, 18
14, 15, 16 17, 18
Narration Para. 19
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• Conversion to philosophy.
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Logical Development
Conclusion Extension& Antithesis Analysis of the root cause Football and war
I see little to recommend such a view. (Para. 16, line 1)
contradiction
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Conclusion
1. It only endures because it wears one of the oldest and most propagandized of masks- the romantic combatant.
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Thesis Statement
• By the end of my football career, I had learned that physical injury- giving it and taking it- is the real currency of the sport. And that in the final analysis the “winner” is the man who can hit to kill even if only half his limbs are working. In brief, a warrior game with a warrior ethos into which (like almost everyone else I played with) my original boyish enthusiasm had been relentlessly conditioned. (Para. 12)
football
Metaphorical Analogy
conspicuous Similarities
(Para. 5, line 4)
war
difference
difference
(Para. 6, line 1)
family resemblance
(Para. 6, line 1)
Supporting idea: Football resembles war in the way it causes damages and deaths of people.