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DIacumin - Crusoe's Island - exercises pag 190-191
by DIacumin - (2011-05-30)
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COMPREHENSION

1. Crusoe needed books, pen and ink to write a diary.

2. He couldn't write anything about his experience and he couldn't make any calendar to know the date.

3. He brought a post, he wrote on that the day of his ship-wrecke and he cut every day a notch with his knife.

4. He mostly miss some company.

INTERPRETATION

1. He firstly thanked God to live. I found the objects he had unusual because over the useful knife he had only a tobacco-pipeand a little tobacco which are very useless.

2. It is very similar because over the religious halo, he is very detailed in the description of things he had.

3. The text is very detailed and engaging

4. He uses a concrete vocabulary.

5. He uses long sentences, but easy to understand

6. The sound r is repeted in all the extract. The long list is in the second sentence.

7. All these features makes the tale easier to understand

8. The story is in the first person because in this way the reader identify himself in the protagonist.

9. I am curious to go on.