ISFD.

N° 100–Avellaneda

English Department

Discursive Practices of Written Communication 2

Professor: Beatriz Castiñeira Year 2024

Students: Roxana Rojas Fernández, Dana Marquez, Mariano Chavez, Karen Ovando

Text analysis: Two Travelers And A Bear

1. Overview
● Layout and Paratext

Byline: the fable was written by Aesop

Intended Audience: children above 9 years old

Layout: It is a fable that can be read from a webpage and it is organized in a way that one element
comes after another. First, you can see the title and the author’s name. Then, there is a picture
illustrating a scene of the story. After it, there is a publishing advertisement and below it, it is the
text. At the end, there is a score of the story made of starts from 1 to 10, and different social media
platforms to share the fable.

Typeface: The title is written in bold type and the first letter of each word is written in capital letter.
Then, the byline is written in bold lowercase letter but the author’s name is in blue colour because it
is a link that addresses the reader to his biography and a list of other stories written by him as well.
The text is written in the printing press in lowercase.

Image: It is under the author’s name and it covers the page from left to right. The image has dull
colours and inside it you can see two men and a bear. On the right side of the picture, there is a
tree in which there is a man whose face is half hidden with one of his arms and he is spying over his
shoulder. Then, on the left side, there is a man laid on the floor whose face is unseen. By his side,
there is a big brown bear which is looking at him with a sad expression.

● Contextual features

Bear:

- They are big, scary and have sharp claws

- There are different types of bear such as polar, grizzly, panda, etc.
- They live in the forest and hunt for their food (fish)
- They hibernate till spring season
- They like honey
- Famous bears: Winnie Pooh, Ted, Kung Fu Panda, Care Bears (Ositos Cariñositos)
Men:

- They are strong/weak, brave/coward, tall/short, thin/fat, muscular/slim, funny/serious,

cunning/innocent, skilled/unskilled, handsome/ugly, lovely/aggressive, athletic/lazy,
confident/unconfident, smart/silly, etc.

● Topic: friendship or loyalty

● Main idea: Loyalty is tested when faced with danger

2. Parts of the narrative

Lines Text/words:
PART (Number: From… To…
from… to…)
Orientation From line 1 “Two Men were traveling in company through a
forest....”
Complicating From line 2 to line 9 From: “...when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out
Action of the brush near them.”
To: “He had heard that a Bear will not touch a dead
body.”
Resolution From line 10 to line From: “It must have been true…”
18 To: “...that it was not at all wise to keep company
with a fellow who would desert his friend in a
moment of danger.”
Evaluation Line 2 “...a huge bear”
Line 4 “...thinking of his own safety…”
Line 6 “...unable to fight the savage beast alone,...”
Line 8 “...as if he were dead.”
Line 10 “It must have been true,...”
From line 11 to lone “...seeming to be satisfied that he was dead,...”
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CODA Line 19 “Misfortune is the test of true friendship”

Elements Examples

Evaluation - Adjective “...a huge bear”

- Dynamic “...thinking of his own safety…”
- Adjective “...unable to fight the savage beast alone,...”
- Verb to be / “...as if he were dead.”
Adjective “It must have been true,...”
- Modal / Verb to be “...seeming to be satisfied that he was dead,...”
- Perception /
Adjective