Comment On A Village Celebration

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Comment on A Village Celebration A Village Celebration by Alan Alexander Milne revealed to readers the tremendous impact of the war on the villagers. The author described in this essay how the village people planned to celebrate their good fortune—nobody had suffered any casualties from the war, except Charlie Rudd, who was kicked by a horse. Having read the essay many times, I find several aspects impress me most. Firstly, the author’s writing style in this essay is quite straightforward. He presented readers a vivid, lively and clamorous celebrating meeting with easy and plain words. He employed neither touching plots nor profound consequence or any recondite vocabulary to attract readers. Only through depicting the villagers’ different reaction to the celebrating plan did he enable readers to gain an insight into the nature of the villagers. For example, Embury, the cobbler with a distinct personality, was trenchant and rash; the vicar was politic and sophisticated, having no intention to offend anybody; young Bates was “a little slow at getting on to things”—he joined the army in 1918 only in answer to his country’s police but not out of his own willingness. It was surprising that the author could portrayed many figures with quite different personal quality in such a short essay. When it comes to writing techniques, contrast deserves our attention. On one hand, as far as celebration is concerned, what naturally springs to one’s mind must be a festive, delightful and harmonious occasion. However, the village celebration was not so festive, delightful and harmonious as we imagined because they couldn’t reach an agreement on the inscription and no one was willing to pay for the drinking fountain which was designed to be a pleasing memorial of the returned heroes’ valor. On the other
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