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About the author:
Suzanne Britt Jordan
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and attended Salem College and Washington University. She has been a columnist for the Raleigh New and Observer and Stars and Stripes, European edition, and has written for other newspapers and newsmagazines.
Jordan’s books include a collection of essays, Show and Tell (1982); Skinny People Are Dull and Crunchy like Carrots (1982), an expansion of her essay “That Lean and Hungry Look”; and A Writer’s Rhetoric (1988), a college textbook. This essay originally appeared in the“My Turn”column of Newsweek magazine.
this part, the author tells us how we should treat fun and uses her own experience to point out the essence of fun.
Appreciation of Writing Style
Literary Form:
Colloquial Expressions:
“Fun, Oh Boy. Fun. You Could Die from It”“sakes alive!”,“ by Jove ”,“Golly gee”,“ Oughta”etc.
Text Summary
Fun is hard to have. However, people hold the idea that fun is easy to get and they should have fun. For this reason, seeking fun becomes a must in life, overshadowing other pursuits. This makes people ignore that there should be something serious and grave in reality. In their opinion, everything should be fun and they can squeeze fun out of it, but it turns out different. People make a lot of attempts to get fun but in vain in the end, which drives them to look for more and more thrilling ways to supply it, even stepping up the level of danger or licentiousness or alcohol or drug consumption. Actually, what they have done blasphemes fun, resulting in the absence of fun no matter how hard they try. Therefore, the correct way is to treat fun reverently, so that one may have some fresh fun now and then.
Newsweek
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Text Structure
•Part 1(Para.1—5):This is the introductory part. In
this part, the author provides a precise definition of fun and talks about the popular thoughts about fun.
Argumentation
Writing Techniques:
An article with a mix of narrative and comment Comparison and Contrast
Figures of Speech&Rhetorical Device:
Repetition, personification, simile and metaphor.
Newsweek
• 《新闻周刊》是美国主要时事周刊之一。内容广泛。长于报道和评论 国际时事和美国国内政治动态。在美国,它是仅次于《时代》的周刊。 在发行量上,它超过了《美国新闻和世界报道》。在这三份期刊中, 《新闻周刊》通常被视作观点比《时代》更自由而比《美国新闻和世 界报道》更保守。
• 该刊刊名最初为News-Week, 52期/年,由托马斯·J·C·马丁于1933 年2月17日创立。1937年,马尔柯姆·米尔成为该刊主编及总裁,他将 刊物改用现名,并加强了该刊文章的可读性,以及引入了新的署名专 栏和国际版面。随着时间的流逝,《新闻周刊》已经发展为一个内容 广泛的全方位新闻类杂志,其涵盖范围包括了从突发新闻到深度分析 的各种内容。1961年,华盛顿邮报公司将其收归旗下。
•Part 2(Para.6—11):In this part, the author offers the
extended definition of the word “fun”by negation.
•Part 3(Para.12—15):This is the concluding part. In
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