Toward the end of his life, the Chevalier de Seingalt (1725−1798) wrote a long memoir recounting his life and adventures. The Chevalier was a somewhat controversial figure, but since he met many famous people, including kings and writers, his memoir has become a valuable historical source about European society in the eighteenth century. However, some critics have raised doubts about the accuracy of the memoir. They claim that the Chevalier distorted or invented many events in the memoir to make his life seem more exciting and glamorous than it really was.
For example, in his memoir the Chevalier claims that while living in Switzerland, he was very wealthy, and it is known that he spent a great deal of money there on parties and gambling. However, evidence has recently surfaced that the Chevalier borrowed considerable sums of money from a Swiss merchant. Critics thus argue that if the Chevalier had really been very rich, he would not have needed to borrow money.
Critics are also skeptical about the accuracy of the conversations that the Chevalier records in the memoir between himself and the famous writer Voltaire. No one doubts that the Chevalier and Voltaire met and conversed. However, critics complain that the memoir cannot possibly capture these conversations accurately, because it was written many years after the conversations occurred. Critics point out that it is impossible to remember exact phrases from extended conversations held many years earlier.
Critics have also questioned the memoir's account of the Chevalier's escape from a notorious prison in Venice, Italy. He claims to have escaped the Venetian prison by using a piece of metal to make a hole in the ceiling and climbing through the roof. Critics claim that while such a daring escape makes for enjoyable reading, it is more likely that the Chevalier's jailers were bribed to free him. They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.
It seems to be a debatable argument. The article states that Chevalier's memoir was full of inaccuracy and people doubt about its reliability and provides three reasons to support it. On the other hand, the professor of the lecture explains that memoir was possibly correct, reliable and pity accurate and refutes each of the author reasons.
Firstly, the reading claims that in spite of being wealthy, why he needed to borrow money. However, the professor refutes this point by saying that it was not true because living in Switzerland, he had to expense a huge amount of money because he was involved in parties and gambling. He sold his property to get some cash but it's required some times to get and it was the reason for his borrowing money.
Secondly, the article posits that critics also confused about the validity of conversations between Chevalier and Voltaire. On the contrary, the professor says that Chevalier had done his writing every night after their conversations everything he remembered. Many years his writing members confirm the validity of this writing.
Thirdly, the reading contends that the technique of escape away from the prison was doubtful. The professor opposes this point by explaining that it was a more powerful prison and the authority did repair the ceiling after escaping Chevalier that indicates the information in the passage is not true.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, in spite of, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1158.0 1373.03311258 84% => OK
No of words: 227.0 270.72406181 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1013215859 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.88156143495 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61572385672 2.5805825403 101% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.581497797357 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 358.2 419.366225166 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7655887346 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.272727273 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6363636364 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.0 7.06452816374 156% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196899643834 0.272083759551 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686244822254 0.0996497079465 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0443338227099 0.0662205650399 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108846524443 0.162205337803 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368138647838 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 63.6247240618 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.