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Lesson 11 - The Midnight Visitor

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Text Text AppreciatioAppreciationn


I. Text Analysis

1. General Analysis

2. Structure

3. Further Discussion

II. Sentence Paraphrase

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Plot of the story

Setting of the story

Protagonists of the story

I.I. Text AnalysisText AnalysisHave you

got the key elements in the story?

For reference

To be continued on the next page.

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Plot: Ausable appears helpless, but he gets rid of his deadly enemy without lifting a finger.

Setting: a French hotel room

Protagonists: Ausable, Fowler, Max and a waiter

I.I. Text AnalysisText Analysis

For reference.

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Part 1 (paras. ) about:Part 2 (paras. ) about:

Part 3 (paras. ) about:



Structure of the text

1—5

6—16

17—26

Who Ausable is. & why Fowler wants to see him.The unexpected visit of Ausable’s adversary Max.

How Ausable outwits Max and makes him jump on the “balcony”.

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Questions:• … come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey int

o official hands. (para. 5) What is meant by this sentence? Where would this important paper probably go from Ausable?

• I am going to raise the devil with the management this time; … (para. 11) What does the word “management” refer to here?


Further discussion about the story


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Stage 1: • Text Glimpse • What was Fowler’s first impression of Ausable?• How did Fowler get his first thrilling experience of the

day?• How did Ausable deal with the situation?• How did Ausable finally outwit Max?




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Stage 2:

• Making character sketches: physical appearance;

how the person acts, talks, thinks and deals with

persons.




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Stage 3:Group Activities• Retell the text in your own words.• Find words and phrases that can sum up your impress

ions of Ausable.• Try to turn the passage into a little play and act it out.



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II. Sentence II. Sentence Paraphrase 1Paraphrase 1

Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French

and German passably, he had never altogether lost the

New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston

twenty years ago. (para. 2)

Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.

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for one reason (why Fowler was disappointed)

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Ausable said wheezily… (para. 3)

Ausable was so fat that he had difficulty breathing.

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… a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4)

… an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.

put into one’s hand quietly, secretly and quickly

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(old-fashioned) women who are very beautiful

More Examples


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II. Sentence II. Sentence ParaphraseParaphrase

Examples:

He slipped some money into the official’s hand.

She slipped a piece of paper under the door.

We won’t let him slip through our fingers.

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The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)

when; while

the opposite of the action “to lock”

feeling discouraged or dissatisfied

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The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.

The “ed” –adjective is used as attribute in this sentence.

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You are disillusioned. (para. 5)

You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.

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The “ed” –adjective is used as predicative in this sentence.

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Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)

an official document; a report

Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled my mission.

In this attributive clause the relative pronoun “which” is the object of the preposition “for” rather than of the verb in the clause.

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For halfway across the room, a small automatic

pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)

In the middle of the room, there was a man with

a small automatic pistol in his hand.

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… you gave me quite a start. (para. 8)

You frightened me. / You surprised me.

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I’m going to raise the devil with the management

this time. (para. 11)

He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max. To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.

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the people in charge of the hotel rather thanthe act of operating the hotel

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II. Sentence II. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 1010

It might have saved me some trouble had I

known about it. (para. 12)

If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.

subjunctive mood

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Examples:

Had she taken that train, she might have

been killed, too.

Had I met him, I would have recognized him.

She would not have died had she had some

money.

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II. Sentence II. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 1111

I wish I knew how you learned about the report,

… (para. 15)

I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.

subjunctive mood

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Examples:

I wish I knew.

I wish I could.

I wish I were 20 years younger.

I wish I were you.

I wish he were still alive.

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II. Sentence II. Sentence Paraphrase Paraphrase 1212Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still

covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22)

He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest .

The “ed” –adjective is used as object complement in

this sentence.

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Examples of different meanings of “cover”:

I’ll blow up that bridge. You cover me.

The enemy guns covered the whole city. It

was no longer safe to stay.

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The end of Sentence Paraphrase.

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