Pretending to Know the Words

Her er Studienets vejledning til analyse af novellen "Pretending to Know the Words" af Helen Cooper. I denne bog får du et komplet overblik over de elementer i novellen, som er godt at behandle i din egen analyse. Udgangspunktet for analysehjælpen er opgaveformuleringen fra den skriftlige eksamen i Engelsk A på STX fra den 24. maj 2017 med netadgang, hvor spørgsmål 5A lød som følger:

Write an analytical essay (800-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Helen Cooper’s short story “Pretending to Know the Words”.

Part of your essay must focus on the narrative technique and on the main theme.

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Pretending to Know the Words" (2014)
Forfatter: Helen Cooper
Genre: Novelle

Helen Cooper er en skønlitterær britisk forfatter fra, som underviser i akademisk skrivning ved University of Birmingham.

Uddrag

Her giver vi dig et kort uddrag af vores analysehjælp:

Title

The title of the short story, “Pretending to Know the Words”, is intriguing because it does not reveal much about the plot. Reading the story, the title becomes symbolic of Luis’ incapacity to adapt to his new status as a successful football player in the UK. The title is also an allusion to the story’s ending and plot twist. After misleading readers to assume Luis and Recoba are two different people, the ending of the story reveals that they are the same person

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