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n Aufgabe 5
The person speaking is an artist, a painter to be precise
(the reader can draw this conclusion because the I-narrator
portraits people in order to earn a living): he usually
studies people’s outer appearances very thoroughly and
is able to draw conclusions about a person and his character.
Furthermore, the painter himself argues with his
professional knowledge that all the rumours can’t be
true, because he would be able to see them in his face,
his hands, his appearance. Therefore, he argues that the
rumours can’t be true – and the way that he talks so
much about the rumours as well as his tone make it clear
to the reader that there are indeed bad rumours about
Dorian Gray: he could be a drug-addict of some kind, or
he could have sexual preferences not accepted by society;
his moral conduct could be strange somehow or
maybe he even committed a (serious) crime.
n Aufgabe 6
Bevor es möglich ist, ein Gedicht in eine Kurzgeschichte
umzuschreiben, ist eine kurze Interpretation notwendig:
Das lyrische Ich befindet sich an einem heißen Sommertag
(‘Twas August, and the fierce sun overhead) in einer
Großstadt (im Osten Londons). Es ist ein Werktag, was
den Erzähler als vermutlich der Mittelschicht zugehörig
ausweist. Er blickt durch ein Fenster – evtl. das Fenster
eines ärmlichen Heimarbeiters – zu einem Weber, dessen
Haltung Niedergeschlagenheit, Entmutigung und
Traurigkeit widerspiegelt (so jedenfalls nimmt der Ich-
Erzähler die Situation wahr – vgl. Zeile 3/4: “the pale
weaver … looked thrice dispirited”).
Während der Erzähler eine Spannung zwischen Armut
und Wohlstand, zwischen Tradition und Fortschritt wahrzunehmen
scheint, ist es ein Priester, der in dieser Situation
den Glauben als Lösung weist: Jesus bzw. Gott („the
living bread”) gibt Hoffnung (he „sets up a mark of everlasting
light”); offen bleibt am Ende allerdings, ob sich
für den Weber ein Weg zur Überwindung seiner Armut
auftut.
Short Story: A hot, sunny day in August. I was at home
and feeling a bit restless. My mum and our housemaids
were preparing a garden party to celebrate my first job,
which was going to be held the following day. Whenever
I had spotted a quiet place to enjoy my book and
the last of my free time before starting work on Monday,
first my mum and then one of the maids made me
move out of the way. Well, then I got fed up with it and
decided to go out for a walk.
I had been walking for just over an hour when I reached
the outskirts of East London – a part of the city my
parents didn’t want me to go to, but I kept on walking
anyway. I stopped when I came to a corner of two
streets, and was trying to make a decision about which
direction to take. Suddenly, I felt thirsty and thought
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about finding a pub. I took a closer look around the
streets and noticed a lot of small, poor, shaggy looking
houses, but there wasn’t a pub in sight.
Don’t the people who live here ever go to pubs? I wondered.
I was feeling curious, so I looked in through the
dirty window of a house. I could see a skinny, tired
looking man in his thirties, hunched over his work,
weaving some kind of garment. He was surrounded by
numerous kids of different ages and I could sense the
desperation, poverty and hopelessness – even through
the window.
“Hello, my friend!” I had not heard anybody approaching,
but as soon as I turned around, I saw that it was
our parish priest. “What are you doing here?”, I said.
The priest’s answer to my question took a while to sink
in: “Believe in Christ, our saviour, the living bread, and
thou shall live. Don’t worry so much.”
A hot, sunny day in August. Had I misunderstood our
priest’s sermons throughout my whole life? Weren’t we
human because of our ability to share and maybe help
ease our fellow’s fate? After thanking him for his inspiring
words, I slowly turned around and began my
long walk back home.
Kapitel 3: Texttypen
n Aufgabe 1
When a writer relates an occurrence, a real or imaginary
action or simply tells a story, he describes the events in
the natural time sequence or chronological order in
which they occurred and may, if he wishes, comment
on incidents related. This is known as the narrative text
type.
Ernest Hemingway relates how an old man kills an
enormous fish. The events follow in logical succession:
the great fish rises into the air, the old man summoning
all his strength drives his harpoon into its side. The
climax is reached in the second paragraph when the
fish leaps into the air and crashes down beside the skiff.
The old man only realizes that the fish is dead when he
sees the harpoon sticking in its side and its dark blood
discolouring the blue water. This leads him to think
about the fish.
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A writer, by virtue of vivid, interesting and ordered description
of his subject, may strive to arouse in the mind
of the reader a clear mental picture of what the author
had seen or imagined. Dean Koontz’s descriptive text
offers an impressionistic description of a casino and its
patrons. People from all walks of life – grandmothers,
hookers, Japanese, cowboy types, secretaries, a 300
pound lady, an oilman, security guards, blackjack deal-