The extract started with the description of Coalhouse Walker’s coming. Difference between the first sentences and last ones of the first paragraph. Introduction with the main character of this story. Social situation as the main subject of the extract.
Аннотация к работе
The text under analysis is an extract from a novel “Ragtime” by E. L. Doctorow. The extract started with the description of Coalhouse Walker’s coming. The narrator began by describing the car and boy’s reaction when he saw it, but he didn’t introduce who was in the car. The only thing we happened to know was that he was a Negro. We can see the difference between the first sentences and last ones of the first paragraph. First sentences were simple ones, but when the narrator touches upon about “driver’s” race and his car we felt a little tension. These two short sentences showed that it was unusual to have “shone car” for Negro at the time, may be that society was not ready for wealthy Negroes. Such was the coming of the Negro and the aim of his coming was to see a woman named Sarah. The first coming of the colored man was, at first, strange. His wish to speak with Sarah, he asked it so tremulous and self-important but he seemed to be afraid of something. After we understood his fears. Sarah refused to talk wi