【高考热点作文】概要写作原创练习—人与自我

【高考热点作文】概要写作原创练习—人与自我

Discovering a lost brother

① Kieron Graham always knew he had an older brother named Vincent. Though Kieron spent years thinking about him, he could never track him down.

②That changed in December 2017, when Kieron’s adoptive parents gave him an AncestryDNA test as a Christmas gift. Kieron, now 21, sent his saliva (唾液) sample in for analysis. When his results came back, he was stunned to find he had a lot of DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it was labeled “close family.” His name was Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection. “This is going to sound so wild … but I think you’re my brother,” Kieron wrot e on Facebook’s Messenger app. “I was given up for adoption in 1997 and it says on my paperwork that my mother has a son with your name and your birth date. Her name is Shawn.”

③“OMG do you know your real name?” wrote Vincent, now 30.

④“I think it was Tyler.”

⑤“OMG YES!!! You are my brother.”

⑥“Wow,” wrote Kieron.

⑦“This is crazy,” said Vincent.

⑧ The craziness was just beginning. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other. More surprising, they attended the same university and majored and minored in the same subjects: political science and legal studies.

⑨ Vincent was nine when Kieron was born and remembers caring for his baby brother. But times were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nurse, decided that placing Kieron for adoption would give him the best chance to succeed.

⑩“She was very emotional about that time, to the point where it was hard for her to put into words anything about what happened,” Vincent says.

⑾ Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week.

⑿One of Vincent’s concerns was that Kieron might resent his birth family for placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didn’t, and that he’d grown up in a loving f amily.

⒀ Since that first meeting, the brothers have bonded even more. They play football together and celebrated Christmas with their families. “We’ll keep growing our relationship until it’s time to leave this planet,” says Vincent. That shouldn’t be har d. As Kieron says, “We’ve got years and years to catch up on.”

【文本解析】

1. Main idea

本文讲述了一对分开多年的兄弟重聚的故事。文章前半部分主要讲Kieron如何通过基因检测和Facebook找到了他的哥

哥 Vincent，后半部分讲述了他们重聚之后的往来，以及迅速建立感情。

2. Text structure

全文可以划分为三个部分：

①-⑧第一部分：Kieron通过基因检测和Facebook找到了他的哥哥。

⑨-⑩第二部分：Kieron的妈妈为什么放弃他，让别人领养他。

⑾-⒀第三部分：Kieron和哥哥重聚后，迅速建立感情。

3.Mind map