[i习作temp] issue49 有关imaginative works [复制链接]

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发表于 2004-11-28 17:37:22 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

issue49."Imaginative works such as novels, plays, films, fairy tales, and legends present a more accurate and meaningful picture of human experience than do factual accounts. Because the creators of fiction shape and focus reality rather than report on it literally, their creations have a more lasting significance."

I agree with the speaker in sofar as imaginative works have a more lasting significance to present human experience. Examples from influential fims aptly illustrate this assertion. However, the speaker seems to undermine the value of factual accounts.

Factual accounts are not without merit in terms of presenting human experience. After all, it is numerous historical documents that provide us objective sources, upon which historian and social scientists depend to go on their researches. In addition, some imaginative works are based on historical facts, and imaginary works are no substitute for factual account.
Examples from excellent fims underscore this point that imaginative means of accounting human experience hold more lasting significance than factual works. Many people may still remember the movie American Graffiti, which is arguably the most famous film setting on experiences of the youth in the 1960s. By featuring the coming age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college, with incredible soundtrack bringing the most memorable rock’n’roll hits the era, the movie vividly depicts the life in every profile. It is a movie capture the heart of American’s last age of innocence, a movie defines a generation. Moreover, even if imaginery works do not depend on factual experience, they still present something true underlying empirical lives of human beings. Here is a episode from a coverage about “how life is changed by Harry Potter”. I was so moved by one boy’s expression “there were amazing similarities between Harry Potter’s background and mine- no family care, hard life (he was diagnosed with leukemia)…Harry Poter helped me get through really hard and scary times. I some times think of Harry and me are kind of alike- forced into situations he couldn’t control and had to face an enemy that he didn’t know if he could be beat.” We can tell from the words how closely the film connected to our real life.

Imaginative works have the power to enter one’s life, to represent intangible feelings of human beings- dreams, ideals, anxieties and courages, in a word, every demension of human experience. However, we could hardly find a factual recount embraces the similar power as an imaginary one, for the reason that creative tools like metaphor, imagery, simbolizing are employed in imaginary works, while factual works are limited to recounting.

Conclusively, imaginative works have far more significant values than factual ones, as far as meaningfully depicting human experience is concerned. As creative techniques are hired in imaginative works, an excellent creation could really influence generations of people, touching their heart and reaching their spirit. Therein lie the value of creation which factual accounts lack of.

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发表于 2004-11-28 22:16:15 |只看该作者

这是我第一次评别人的文章，说真的，我也不知道我说的对不对。。。
首先文字不错，许多用词都很精练，还有很多词我不认识。。。惭愧。。。
结构上，我认为既然观点是同意，那么第一段however后面一段其实可以不写，因为写在这里，又有however强调，很容易误导，像我刚看的时候以为后面会以批驳为主。如果一定要写轻视了factual account的价值，那么我觉得可以放在倒数第二段简单提议下，作为一种出于全面性的考虑补充。
另外第三段放了两个例子，应该可以分成两段的，分别是说有和没有事实依据的。这样段落也可以短一点，不然现在看起来太长了。

Reach for the sky

Because if you should happen to miss

You will still be among the stars

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