TWO WAYS OF SEEING A

RIVER:
HOSTS:
IRTAZA ZULFIQAR
FATIMA SIDDIQUI
ZIA UL HAQ
SAMREEN ABBAS
NOOR FATIMA
 Introduction

Conclusion Summary

Effectiveness Interpretation
 INTRODUCTION:

 TITLE:
TWO WAYS OF SEEING A RIVER

 AUTHOR:
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by Mark Twain
 A writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

 PUBLICATION :
 Mississippi in 1883
 SUMMARY:

MAIN IDEA:
  The interpretation of the same memory changes as we age and gain
experience.

POINTS:

 DELVING INTO THE CHANGINGS IN ATTITUDE

 FIRSTLY , THE BEAUTY OF RIVER IS ADMIRED
 IN THE MID, RED HUE BRIGHTENED INTO GOLD
 FINALLY, HE GETS USED TO IT.
 TONE
??
STYLE

PURPOSE
 TONE:

 MAJOR TONE OF ESSAY:

 The major tone is sad as:
 “ KILLS, BOILS, DANGEROUSLY, BLIND” paragraph 2
 These words suggest the major tone as sad.


 MINOR TONE OF ESSAY:

 The minor tones are positive and nostalgic as :
 “ Majestic, Marvels and brightened “ paragraph ONE
 STYLE :

The style of essay is narrative as:

 Method of time sequence is used

 Discussion of writer’s feelings in time sequence
 Beginning of essay from past advent
 Ending at the present trifling feature
 EXAMPLE:

I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived.

 PURPOSE OF ESSAY: WHY ?

The purpose of essay is to entertain as:

 The story of writer is discussed.

 Use of poetic style to explain thoughts

“ But I had lost something, too”
“ A day came when I began to cease”
“ I stood like one bewitched. I drank it in , in a speechless
rapture.”
PROS AUTHOR’S
AND USE OF
PATTERN
CONS

DISCUSSIO
N OF DISCUSSION
TOPIC
RELEVANC OF APPEAL
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 Discussion of appeal:

1- Ethos :
 • Credible person
 • Ample experience
 • Ability to cogent readers with his perspectives

2- Pathos :
 • Emotional attack
E.G by the excerpt: " I had made .............while I lived''
 •To compel readers to devour further
 DISCUSSION OF TOPIC RELEVANCE:

 Relative to teenagers

 Gaining of experience

 Natural phenomenon

 Feelings and angles of view w.r.t age are

discussed
 ACHIEVEMENT OF PURPOSE:

 SUCCESS

 TWO PERSEPECTIVES

 1. FIRST WAY:
o categorically explains the enchanting beauty of a river

 2. SECOND WAY:
o then he starts to scrutinize the cons
 PATTERN OF ORGANIZATION:
 The pattern used in the essay is : “Compare and Contrast”.

 Point of view in Past

 Change of point of view with the passage of time

o Reference:

 “When I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every
trifling feature that bordered the great .But I lost something, too. I had lost
something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the
beauty , the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river”.

  ”I have pitied doctors from my heart. What does the lovely flush in a beauty’s
cheek mean to a doctor but a “break” that ripples above some deadly disease?”.
 PROS AND CONS:
Positive aspects: NEGATIVE aspects:
 PITCH PERFECT AND TECHNICALLY
MASTERFULL
 PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE IS
REQUIRED
 METAPHOR FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

 DIFFICULT LANGUAGE IS USED

 ACHIEVEMENT OF PURPOSE TO GREASP IDEAS
The writer has narrated his story by
comparing his present and past.
 CONSISTING OF LONG
SENTENCES
 FULFILMENT OF MAIN IDEA
Age and experience snatches the glory,
beauty and poetry.
 CONCLUSION:

 Story of his own life

 He has gained knowledge and experience, but his way of perceiving

information has changed

 Analysis is well composed

 Remarkable coverage of deep comparison and contrast between perceptions

 Eloquent and understandable