ANALIZA PRETRANSLATIVA A TEXTULUI HE WAS FIRST

Metatextul:
Author: this text is written by John Kellmayer
Country of origin: USA

Macrotextul:
Brooklyn Dogers-The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American basseball team that
was active in the major-leagues from 1884 until 1957. The team is noted for
signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the modern
major leagues.
Recalls reaminteste
Box office- 1. factor influencing this power: notoriety is usually good box
office.
2.a measure of how popular and financially successful a film or actor is.
Commissioner- membrul al unei comisii; comisar
Withstand- a rezista
Not to fight back- a nu da inapoi
Were paged- au fost chemati
Segregated-separat, izolat
we got a lot tougher thereafter avem mult mai greu dupa aceea
to spike-a pironi, a bate in cuie
bum-lenes
cantankerous-argatos
bat-bita
pitcher-aruncator
gasp-suspin adinc
harassment-hartuire
foul language-limbaj vulgar
reluctant-nedoritor, ezitant
outpouring-revarsare
raucous-ragusit
adamantly-categoric


Intratextul:
Title-he was first
Type text: this text can be a magazine article, it include two themes:
the sport and the racism.
The author style is austere. The actions of the text is plase between
1944-1947 years.

Intertextualitatea:
Text contains statements by:
Happy Chandler: If a black man can make it at Okinawa and go to
Guadalcanal, he can make it in baseball.
Baseball historian Robert Smith wrote that when Robinson first
appeared in Syracus: the fans reacted in a manner so raucous, obscene
and disgusting that it might have shamed a conclave of the Ku Klux
Klan

Target audience : it can be students or other readers, because it can be
a newspaper article.
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