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Writing Style
Max Shulman has a good style. The story goes forward at a fast pace with racy dialogues full of American colloquialism and slang. He employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid. He use ultra learned terms to reveal the conceit of the narrator and clipped vulgar forms to illustrate Polly Espy’s limited intellectual capability. He also use figurative language profusely and inversion for emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes throughout the story. The combination of all these help to make the story realistic, as one would expect a freshman to talk like that.
Rhetorical in the story
1. 2. Inversion (Vague though its category, it is without doubt an essay.) Metaphor (There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb’s frontier.) Rhetorical question (Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin?) Simile (My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as scalpel.) Hyperbole (It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.) Ellipsis (Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.) Metonymy (She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.) Antithesis (It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.)
The narrator of the story is Dobie Gills, a freshman in a law school who is proud of his logic reasoning and general intellectual capability. Dobie Gills grapples with Petey Burch, whose girlfriend he hopes that he can persuade to give up and Polly Espy, Burch’s girlfriend he intends to marry after he has improves her. He is quite sure of his final success because he is smarter and it is only logical that the girl will choose him. However, the result is a great surprise to him because the girl turns down his proposal and choose Petey Burch, all because of what Dobie Gills regards as a “silly reason”, thus proving that “Love is a fallacy”.
Book Five
Lesson Five Love Is a Fallacy
By Lijunlan
About the Essay
This is a humorous essay in which the narrator tells his failure to win the heart of a young woman with therefore of logic, which therefore proves to him that “love is a fallacy”---”it is inconsistent with logic.”
2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Exercise
Analyze the logic fallacy in each of the following statements
1. I asked six of my friends what they thought of the new spending restraints and they agreed it is a good idea. The new restraints are therefore generally popular. Immigration to Alberta from Ontario increased. Soon after, the welfare rolls increased. Therefore, the increased immigration caused the increased welfare rolls. If I had studied harder, I would definitely have passed that test. Watching television is a waste of time. We hope you’ll accept our recommendations. We spent the last three months working extra time on it. Religion obviously weakens the political strength of a country. After all, Rome fell after the introduction of Christianity. We should discount what Premier Klein says about taxation because he won’t be hurt by the increase. A society is free if and only if liberty is maximized and people are required to take responsibility for their actions. You say I shouldn’t drink, but you haven’t been sober for more than a year. Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees.
Questions after first reading
1.How do you interpret “fallacy” in the title? What is the implication of the author? 2.What is the theme of the story? Where is it stated? 3.How is the story organized? Where does the story reach its climax? 4.What role does the raccoon coat play in the development of the story? 5.What is the purpose of this narration? Can you find evidence from the text? 6.How does the author bring out the pomposity of the narrator? What makes the satire of the narrator humorous? 7.As the story progresses, Polly turns out to be much smarter than the narrator has previously thought. How does this contrast contribute to the humor of the piece? 8. How does the story end? In what sense is the conclusion ironic? 9.Give 3examples each to illustrate how short sentences, ellitical sentences and dashes help to maintain the speed of the narration.
About the author
Max Shulman(1919-1988): one of America’s best-known humorists. Max is a writer of many talents---he has written novels, stories, Broadway plays, movie scenarios, and television scripts. The present text is taken from The Many Loves of Dobie Gills(1951). Dobie Gills, the narrator , is a typical American teen who frequently suffers from romantic angst. The character appeared on a popular televion sitcom during the 1950s and was in a feature film in 1953.
Writing Style
Max Shulman has a good style. The story goes forward at a fast pace with racy dialogues full of American colloquialism and slang. He employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid. He use ultra learned terms to reveal the conceit of the narrator and clipped vulgar forms to illustrate Polly Espy’s limited intellectual capability. He also use figurative language profusely and inversion for emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes throughout the story. The combination of all these help to make the story realistic, as one would expect a freshman to talk like that.
Rhetorical in the story
1. 2. Inversion (Vague though its category, it is without doubt an essay.) Metaphor (There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb’s frontier.) Rhetorical question (Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin?) Simile (My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as scalpel.) Hyperbole (It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.) Ellipsis (Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.) Metonymy (She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.) Antithesis (It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.)
The narrator of the story is Dobie Gills, a freshman in a law school who is proud of his logic reasoning and general intellectual capability. Dobie Gills grapples with Petey Burch, whose girlfriend he hopes that he can persuade to give up and Polly Espy, Burch’s girlfriend he intends to marry after he has improves her. He is quite sure of his final success because he is smarter and it is only logical that the girl will choose him. However, the result is a great surprise to him because the girl turns down his proposal and choose Petey Burch, all because of what Dobie Gills regards as a “silly reason”, thus proving that “Love is a fallacy”.
Book Five
Lesson Five Love Is a Fallacy
By Lijunlan
About the Essay
This is a humorous essay in which the narrator tells his failure to win the heart of a young woman with therefore of logic, which therefore proves to him that “love is a fallacy”---”it is inconsistent with logic.”
2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8.
Exercise
Analyze the logic fallacy in each of the following statements
1. I asked six of my friends what they thought of the new spending restraints and they agreed it is a good idea. The new restraints are therefore generally popular. Immigration to Alberta from Ontario increased. Soon after, the welfare rolls increased. Therefore, the increased immigration caused the increased welfare rolls. If I had studied harder, I would definitely have passed that test. Watching television is a waste of time. We hope you’ll accept our recommendations. We spent the last three months working extra time on it. Religion obviously weakens the political strength of a country. After all, Rome fell after the introduction of Christianity. We should discount what Premier Klein says about taxation because he won’t be hurt by the increase. A society is free if and only if liberty is maximized and people are required to take responsibility for their actions. You say I shouldn’t drink, but you haven’t been sober for more than a year. Employees are like nails. Just as nails must be hit in the head in order to make them work, so must employees.
Questions after first reading
1.How do you interpret “fallacy” in the title? What is the implication of the author? 2.What is the theme of the story? Where is it stated? 3.How is the story organized? Where does the story reach its climax? 4.What role does the raccoon coat play in the development of the story? 5.What is the purpose of this narration? Can you find evidence from the text? 6.How does the author bring out the pomposity of the narrator? What makes the satire of the narrator humorous? 7.As the story progresses, Polly turns out to be much smarter than the narrator has previously thought. How does this contrast contribute to the humor of the piece? 8. How does the story end? In what sense is the conclusion ironic? 9.Give 3examples each to illustrate how short sentences, ellitical sentences and dashes help to maintain the speed of the narration.
About the author
Max Shulman(1919-1988): one of America’s best-known humorists. Max is a writer of many talents---he has written novels, stories, Broadway plays, movie scenarios, and television scripts. The present text is taken from The Many Loves of Dobie Gills(1951). Dobie Gills, the narrator , is a typical American teen who frequently suffers from romantic angst. The character appeared on a popular televion sitcom during the 1950s and was in a feature film in 1953.