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by nataashaj » Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:31 am
Tony: A short story is little more than a novelist's sketch pad. Only novels have narrative structures that allow writers to depict human lives accurately by portraying characters whose personalities gradually develop through life experience.

Raoul: Life consists not of a linear process of personality development, but rather of a series of completely disjointed vignettes, from many of which the discerning observer may catch glimpses of character. Thus, the short story depicts human lives more faithfully than does the novel.

The dialogue most supports the claim that Tony and Raoul disagree about whether
(A) human lives are best understood as series of completely disjointed vignettes
(B) novels and short stories employ the same strategies to depict human lives
(C) novels usually depict gradual changes in characters' personalities
(D) only short stories are used as novelists' sketch pads
(E) short stories provide glimpses of facts of character that are usually kept hidden
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by scoobydooby » Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:50 am
am tempted to go with B

all other choices are only mentioned by either Tony or Raoul, not both.
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by ket » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:54 am
IMO A.

Let's look at other answers first
B. Does Tony disagree with that? No, he himself draws attention that only novels have narrative structure that "allows..." Does Raoul disagree with that? No he agrees with tony that short story is actually different way of presenting human lives and he describes the difference.
C. Again... Tony agrees with this and Raoul does not disagree with Tony on this subject
D. we don't know neither Tony nor Raoul discusses this subject
E. we don't know neither Tony nor Raoul discusses this subject

Now why A?
Tony says only novels " depict human lives accurately" because it allows to depict how personalities develop gradually.
On the other hand Raoul says that short stories " depicts human lives more faithfully than does the novel" because the short story is series of completely disjointed vignettes ".

Now if you look at these speakers have different reasons for their claims, and the difference is that Raoul believes human lives are better depicted / best understood with series of completely disjointed vignettes while Tony believes this is not the case, he believes that lives can be better understood if it is depicted how personalities develop trough life experience. Therefore I choose A
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by riteshbindal » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:19 pm
I wanna go with A.
OA plz
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by rainmaker » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:35 pm
I vote for A
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Re: Cr doubt

by sk8ternite » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:22 pm
nataashaj wrote:Tony: A short story is little more than a novelist's sketch pad. Only novels have narrative structures that allow writers to depict human lives accurately by portraying characters whose personalities gradually develop through life experience.

Raoul: Life consists not of a linear process of personality development, but rather of a series of completely disjointed vignettes, from many of which the discerning observer may catch glimpses of character. Thus, the short story depicts human lives more faithfully than does the novel.

The dialogue most supports the claim that Tony and Raoul disagree about whether
(A) human lives are best understood as series of completely disjointed vignettes
(B) novels and short stories employ the same strategies to depict human lives
(C) novels usually depict gradual changes in characters' personalities
(D) only short stories are used as novelists' sketch pads
(E) short stories provide glimpses of facts of character that are usually kept hidden
I think A, I kicked out B because I thought that the two authors concede that short stories and and novels utilize different strategies to depict human lives. I think they are arguing about whether which strategy more accurately portrays human life.
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by vikram_k51 » Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:51 pm
Will go with A.
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by delhiboy1979 » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:20 pm
Another one for A, the disagreement is about which option portays a character ideally.
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by kamalsinghy » Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:44 am
A is tempting but I opt B as OA, because B is talking about human lives described by both contendors.
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