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CRITICAL READING ASSIGNMENT

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CRITICAL READING

ASSIGNMENT:

ANS.1) In this extract, the weather


was extremely windy; there were
strong gusts of wind roaring at the
narrator. It also must have been
very cold with the tumult of the
wind. Due to this wind, the author
was unable to sleep, because the
doors and windows kept rattling
and banging and there was
whistling in every nook and
cranny.
Ans.2) Within the wind, the
narrator can hear the sound of
doors and windows rattling and
banging and there was whistling in
every nook and cranny. He also
heard a cry and a moan out of the
darkness, coming from the marsh.
It was a child’s cry of suffering,
desperation and anguish.
ANS.3) In this sentence, the
narrator contrasts his childhood to
the horrible windy storm
happening outside. In his
childhood, he would be safe and
snug in his bed, where the wind
could not disturb him. However,
here in the mansion, the doors and
windows rattled and the noise of
whistling in every nook and cranny
did not let the author sleep
properly. It is displayed in a
nostalgic, loving and yearnful way,
like the author wants to go back to
his childhood. It is also cozy and
comfortable. A simile I found in
that passage was “wind rage
around like a lion” which shows
the utter fierceness and
furiousness of the wind. It shows
that it was a strong and dangerous
wind. This gives us the effect that
the storm was not a simple light
storm; it was a very windy storm
that could sweep you away. It also
gives us imagery of the storm.
ANS.4) WORD MEANINGS:
CONJECTURE:
guess/imagine/think
RECLUSIVE: isolated/solitary
INCOHERENT: confused
ANS.5) The narrator creates a
sense of isolation by using the
phrase “steady as a lighthouse,
quite alone and exposed”. This
shows that he was living in the big
house all alone, and had no one
living with him to help him in case
of emergency. There are also ideas
of isolation when the writer used
the phrase “ship at sea”. Ship at
seas in windy storms are often
dangerous as the ship could
capsize at any moment, and there
is barely anyone to help at this
crucial moment, showing some
isolation form the world.
ANS.5) In this extract, the writer
first creates suspension by being
alone on a windy, stormy night in a
huge mansion with nobody there.”
But when I awoke abruptly in the
early hours.” Waking up early all
alone, by a fierce gale, is also
thrilling. Secondly, hearing a child
cry in the middle of a storm in the
dead of night creates fear and
mystery. “Then from somewhere,
out of that howling darkness, a cry
came to my ears, catapulting me
back into the present and
banishing all tranquility.” This
instils a sense of suspense and
tension as to who would be out
alone, at that ungodly hour.
Thirdly, there is a huge moment of
fear when the narrator sees
another person in his house. The
narrator had been living alone,
hence there should have been
nobody in the house. “I had the
impression of someone who had
just that very second before gone
past me on their way from the top
of the stairs to one of the other
rooms.” Lastly, another chilling
and tension filled moment is when
the narrator breaks his torch, so
now he is faces with a sinister
mystery of ‘somebody’ in his
isolated huge mansion in the
middle of a storm. “No light came
on. The torch had broken.”
ANS.6)

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