The Rhetorical Analysis Of The Million Pound Bank Note
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Running Head: THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILLION POUND NOTE
The Rhetorical Analysis of The Million Pound Note
Xiao Huang
Shenzhen Middle School
Background The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain, and it was published late in the end of nineteenth century. It is notable to mention Mark Twain that he was highly praised by his friend, William Dean Howell, that ?Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes?I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists,; they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature?. Most of his …show more content…
(Rasmussen, 1995) And Mark Twain want to point out the malicious face of the money worshiping and the social phenomenon of pursuing money and celebrities blindly. From my point of view, this novel successfully exhibit the truth and reality of the contemporary sociality, and reproaches and mocks at the attitude of those middle class and the public whose behavior could be considered as a type of money-worshipping.
Plot Summary Mark Twain?s novel, The Million Pound Bank Note is about the story of an American young man was accidentally floated to Britain, and started his new life with a one million pound note. Henry Adams, the protagonist of the novel, was a common clerk and enjoyed his peaceful life as a normal kind citizen do. However, he faced a boating accident and floated to London. When he got really desperate that he had lost all of his belongings and identifications, and the …show more content…
In the novel, there are some twists and turns as the ethos that Mark twain used in the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Henry got desperate about his future life not only because of the situation that he became the foreigner and was away from his motherland, but also because of the want of fundings to survive. And just after some days, he was found by the brothers, who offered Henry the bank note. And then he soon uncovered it was a great note that might not be accessible for practical daily use. However, the restaurant owner did not question about the source of the note, but allowed Henry to have meals whenever he wanted fore free. Similar to the restaurant owner, the clothes-shop keeper also have a great turn of treatment and attitude. Both of the owners thought Henry Adams might be a eccentric rich businessman, and loved to act as a beggar, especially the second owner. In the novel, the owner of the shop said in a quite impolite and impatience way, that ?Come, come. Give him his change, Tod. Quickly!?, as if he did not want Henry to exist in the shop any more. Even the servant mocked at him that ?Oh, you haven?t? Well, I thought gentleman like you carried large change.? and also that ?Oh, of course we can change a large bank note.? The servant thought that Henry would just take out a little money or even just some coins.
Running Head: THE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILLION POUND NOTE
The Rhetorical Analysis of The Million Pound Note
Xiao Huang
Shenzhen Middle School
Background The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain, and it was published late in the end of nineteenth century. It is notable to mention Mark Twain that he was highly praised by his friend, William Dean Howell, that ?Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes?I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists,; they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature?. Most of his …show more content…
(Rasmussen, 1995) And Mark Twain want to point out the malicious face of the money worshiping and the social phenomenon of pursuing money and celebrities blindly. From my point of view, this novel successfully exhibit the truth and reality of the contemporary sociality, and reproaches and mocks at the attitude of those middle class and the public whose behavior could be considered as a type of money-worshipping.
Plot Summary Mark Twain?s novel, The Million Pound Bank Note is about the story of an American young man was accidentally floated to Britain, and started his new life with a one million pound note. Henry Adams, the protagonist of the novel, was a common clerk and enjoyed his peaceful life as a normal kind citizen do. However, he faced a boating accident and floated to London. When he got really desperate that he had lost all of his belongings and identifications, and the …show more content…
In the novel, there are some twists and turns as the ethos that Mark twain used in the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Henry got desperate about his future life not only because of the situation that he became the foreigner and was away from his motherland, but also because of the want of fundings to survive. And just after some days, he was found by the brothers, who offered Henry the bank note. And then he soon uncovered it was a great note that might not be accessible for practical daily use. However, the restaurant owner did not question about the source of the note, but allowed Henry to have meals whenever he wanted fore free. Similar to the restaurant owner, the clothes-shop keeper also have a great turn of treatment and attitude. Both of the owners thought Henry Adams might be a eccentric rich businessman, and loved to act as a beggar, especially the second owner. In the novel, the owner of the shop said in a quite impolite and impatience way, that ?Come, come. Give him his change, Tod. Quickly!?, as if he did not want Henry to exist in the shop any more. Even the servant mocked at him that ?Oh, you haven?t? Well, I thought gentleman like you carried large change.? and also that ?Oh, of course we can change a large bank note.? The servant thought that Henry would just take out a little money or even just some coins.