Self-study
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Speaker 1 Summary
Tony thinks that novels are the only type of narrative that can accurately depict human lives (especially compared to short stories). Why? Because only novels can show characters’ personalities gradually developing through experience.
Speaker 2 Summary
Raoul thinks that short stories are a more accurate way to depict human lives, rather than novels. Why? Because life isn’t made up of linear progress. Instead, life is a series of independent scenes where people’s character can be glimpsed. This, we can infer, is better reflected by the format of short stories.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. Tony and Raoul disagree on which narrative format more accurately reflects life, the gradual progress of novels or the disjointed vignettes of short stories.
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a
human lives are ████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ █████████
Tony disagrees with this claim, and instead thinks that life is best understood as a gradual progression over time. Raoul agrees with this claim. This articulates the point of disagreement.
b
novels and short ███████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ ██████ █████ █████
Both speakers disagree with this claim. Both Raoul and Tony acknowledge the different strategies used by novels and short stories, their argument is just about which one is a better reflection of life.
c
novels usually depict ███████ ███████ ██ ███████████ █████████████
Both speakers agree with this claim. Tony explicitly discusses the gradual change depicted by novels. Raoul also alludes to this idea when talking about “a linear process of personality development.”
d
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Neither speaker makes this claim. Tony says that short stories are used as novelists’ sketch pads, but never says that they’re the only thing that is used that way. Novelists could have other sketch pads, we don’t know.
e
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Neither speaker makes this claim. Raoul talks about vignettes providing glimpses of character, which we can infer also refers to short stories. However, Raoul never mentions whether these glimpses are usually hidden.