ready for the Summative Assessment on Thursday. 1. First‚ go into this site: http://www.allthetests.com/quiz29/quiz/1305962385/Mr-Know-All-content-quiz and do the quiz on Mr. Know All. Use a dictionary for words you don’t know. 2. Now‚ read the following summary and analysis of Mr. Know All. An analysis of Mr Know All written by William Somerset Maugham The story takes place in international waters on an ocean going liner sailing from San Fracisco‚ U.S.A to Yokohama‚ Japan on the Pacific
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Literary analysis THE STORY Mr. Know- All is a story with a moral lesson. The subject is simple. A rich Britishmerchant of Oriental origin‚ called Mr. Kelada‚ meets a group of Westerners on a shipsailing across the Pacific Ocean. His cabin-mate‚ a British citizen who is the nameless narrator of the story‚ dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However‚ at theend of the pride and reputation to save an American ladys marriage.As a result‚ he earns the respect of the narrator.story Mr. Kelada‚
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Mr. Know-All by W. Somerset Maugham This story deals with prejudice‚ hasty judgements and stereotypes. The story examines the relationships that develop when people are confined to a ship (which is a small sample of society) for an extended period of time. The writer criticizes the racial prejudices and snobbish attitude of the British people. He tries to show why people are disliked and prejudiced against and at the same time makes the reader look closely at the character of the narrator‚ who
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Ulanskaya Ann AK-091 W. Somerset Maugham. “The Unconquered” Essay I have read a novel “The Unconquered” written by W. Somerset Maugham. This was the first novel of this writer‚ which made me cry. It’s very strong‚ in my opinion. Maugham’s special ambiguity is seen more clear in this novel because it is impossible to understand who was write and who was wrong; who acted more horrible‚ the blind drunk German soldier committed violation of a young girl or that girl killed the innocent child
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Is W. Somerset Maugham a Racist? Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary defines racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race(1). Racism can also be defined as prejudice or animosity against other races (2). In W. Somerset Maugham’s short story‚ Mr. Know-All‚ the narrator displays racism on at least three different occasions throughout the story. The first occasion is when the
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Mr. Know-All – Literary analysis THE STORY Mr. Know- All is a story with a moral lesson. The subject is simple. A rich Britishmerchant of Oriental origin‚ called Mr. Kelada‚ meets a group of Westerners on a shipsailing across the Pacific Ocean. His cabin-mate‚ a British citizen who is the namelessnarrator of the story‚ dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However‚ at theend of the story Mr. Kelada‚ the Levantine jeweller‚ proves to be a real gentlemanwhen he sacrifices his own pride
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Literature review: Mr. Know all: Hots: * Explaining patterns – didn’t keep his mouth shut. Mr. Kelada is a busy person. He can never assay he’s wrong‚ he has to win every argument. When he admits he made a mistake we’re totally surprise as he breaks his pattern. It’s going against everything we thought about him. He doesn’t follow his pattern. * Inference – the end‚ the look at the lady’s face when she think’s Mr. K is going to tell she’s a cheater. When she gives the envelope through the
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3. In the second paragraph the speaker says that he doesn ’t like Mr. Kelada. What doesn ’t he like about him? 4. When Mr. Kelada introduces himself to the narrator‚ the narrator says that he "asked if he was right in thinking my name was so and so." Why doesn ’t the narrator bother to tell us his own name? 5. In the conversation that follows this introduction‚ the narrator is surprised to find out that Mr. Kelada is English. Why is he so surprised? Why does the writer describe
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Mr. Know-All is a story about Mr. Kelada‚ origin Oriental‚ and his cabin-mate‚ a British citizen who is the nameless narrator of the story‚ dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However‚ at the end of the story Mr. Kelada proves to be a real gentleman when he sacrifices his own pride and reputation to save an American lady’s marriage. We will analyze some literal devices’s aspects of this story such as symbolism‚ imagery and irony. The first aspect is symbolism‚ a symbol is an image of
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The Luncheon by Somerset Maugham Analysis The text under analysis belongs to the pen of William Somerset Maugham‚ the one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. He was born in Paris in 1874. His parents died when he was very young. The boy was taken away from the French school‚ and went for his lessons daily to the apartment of the English clergyman at the church‚ then he was sent
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