Sequences of Words and Events
The following passages
represents two possible openings for jack and the Beanstalk. Opening (B) is the
more conventional, and the story could be begun simply by tacking (A) onto (B).
But, what happens if you starts with (A) and then tack on (B).
Make an opening like this,
starting with (A) and adapting (B) but keeping as close to the original wording
as you can.
a. What are the most important kinds of alteration you
have had to make?
b. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of each
approach?
Opening
(A)
As soon as he woke up, he felt that there was
something strange, something about the light. Everything seemed a weird green.
He got out of bed, went over to the window and drew back the curtains. His
mouth fell open. There right in front of the window, blocking the whole sky was
an absolutely vast plant. What was it? Where had it come from? Then he
remembered yesterday.
Opening
(B)
There was
once a widow and her son jack who lived in a farm. They were so poor that one
day, his mother said to jack, 'jack, and take the cow to the market and sell
her'. Therefore, he did. But on the way he met a man who said, 'look, I'll give
you these magic beans for that cow of yours. They were worth more than money
could buy'. Therefore, jack took the beans.
His mother
was furious and flung the beans out of the window and sent jack to bed. The next
morning…
Answer
a. The main alternation we have to make when we put text
'A' before text 'B' there is sequence of event as previously happened and
presently happened. If we change the position of opening 'A' earlier than
opening 'B', we have made opposite to the general convention. Opening 'B' is
normal tradition of writing story. If we start with opening 'A', there will be
many changes. We have to modify all the past events in opening 'B' into
perfective partners like. 'There window had lived with her son jack. One-day
mother had said to him to and take the cow to the market and sell her'. Therefore,
he did. But on the way he met a man…' etc.
b. If we follow opening 'B', we feel a little bit easier
since it is a conventional pattern. There occur many stylistics differences in
the significance of the text. The test and the presentation seems odd and
unique but more impressive too. But we hardly open up our texts narrative
according to opening 'A' patterns since it is uncommon, unfamiliar to adjust in
the text.
Write the sentence ''once there was a poor
widow'' in four different ways as possible openings for a fairy-tale.
The
four different ways for a fairy-tale of given statement are mentioned below:
a. Once a poor widow was there.
b. There was a poor widow once.
c. A poor widow, there was, once.
d. There, once, was a poor widow.
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