anne meets her class
Analysis of the text “Anne Meets Her Class” by Miss Reed
The text under review is entitled “Anne Meets Her Class” by Miss Reed. This abstract can obviously be referred to belle-lettres (fiction) style. Its genre may be defined as a school story (a fiction genre centering on school life). Thus, the story raises eternal issues of upbringing and deals with up-to-date problems of human relationships, namely, relations of pupils and teachers and teachers’ interactions, which are the theme of the story. The main idea can be expressed in the following way: “Teachers (adults) impose their system of relationships on pupils (children), trying to make them ‘convenient’ and sometimes intentionally suppressing their natural freedom”.
The central character is Anne Lacey, who has come for her first lesson in the primary school class. As a result, she gets involved into the complicated rapport established at school. At first she seems to be alien to that environment and feels so (she feels helpless and is ignored by children), but at the end of the story she firmly establishes her position as a teacher and starts to be recognized as a teacher by her pupils (children listen to her eagerly).
The author engages indirect methods of characterization and manages to create a convincing image of a young inexperienced teacher by engaging the following linguistic means: verbally (semantic characteristics of words) – feeling helpless; metaphorical epithet – gave a watery smile; periphrasis – responded Anne in a voice which bore no resemblance to her own. Anne is used to relying on other people’s opinions: She remembered with sudden relief some advice given her at college in just such a situation. She feels as if she were a pupil and is ready to behave like one: With a nervous start Anne hastened forward to the door, but was waved back by a movement of her headmistress’s hand. Pupils frighten Anne. She considers them as her enemy, which is proved by the duel of glances at the beginning of
The text under review is entitled “Anne Meets Her Class” by Miss Reed. This abstract can obviously be referred to belle-lettres (fiction) style. Its genre may be defined as a school story (a fiction genre centering on school life). Thus, the story raises eternal issues of upbringing and deals with up-to-date problems of human relationships, namely, relations of pupils and teachers and teachers’ interactions, which are the theme of the story. The main idea can be expressed in the following way: “Teachers (adults) impose their system of relationships on pupils (children), trying to make them ‘convenient’ and sometimes intentionally suppressing their natural freedom”.
The central character is Anne Lacey, who has come for her first lesson in the primary school class. As a result, she gets involved into the complicated rapport established at school. At first she seems to be alien to that environment and feels so (she feels helpless and is ignored by children), but at the end of the story she firmly establishes her position as a teacher and starts to be recognized as a teacher by her pupils (children listen to her eagerly).
The author engages indirect methods of characterization and manages to create a convincing image of a young inexperienced teacher by engaging the following linguistic means: verbally (semantic characteristics of words) – feeling helpless; metaphorical epithet – gave a watery smile; periphrasis – responded Anne in a voice which bore no resemblance to her own. Anne is used to relying on other people’s opinions: She remembered with sudden relief some advice given her at college in just such a situation. She feels as if she were a pupil and is ready to behave like one: With a nervous start Anne hastened forward to the door, but was waved back by a movement of her headmistress’s hand. Pupils frighten Anne. She considers them as her enemy, which is proved by the duel of glances at the beginning of