Learning Paths » 5A Interacting
1. Rich man, banker, merchant, manufacturer, big, loud, stare and a metallic laugh, made out of a coarse material, great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, strained skin to his face, hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up, brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, looked older, not much hair.
2.
a. A big, loud man, with a stare, and a metallic laugh.
b. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him.
c. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty.
d. A man who was the Bully of humility.
3. big, loud, stare and a metallic laugh, made out of a coarse material, brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his.
4. Bounder: a man who has behaved in a way that is morally wrong. The phrases are: b, d.
5. Charles Dickens wanted not to rise admiration in reader’s mind because he wants to make a parody of the most important principles of Victorian Age.
6. What Mr Bounderby says about himself is consistent with the description of his character because he has a low use of the language and he is a person that instead of admiration rises horror in the reader’s mind.
7. The aspects emphasized are: low educated , horrible, ignorant.
8. What he says make his portrait worse because the reader has a concrete example of what the writer described in the previous lines.
9.
a.
i. As a man perfectly devoid of sentiment… As a man perfectly devoid of sentiment
ii. A man … A man (6 times)
iii. Seven or eight … Seven or eight
iv. Partly … Partly (3 times)
v. I was … I was (4 times)
vi. I … I (8 times)
b. Mr Bounderby is repetitive because he hadn’t no education and wants not to have that.