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.
Memoirs have always been subjected to scrutiny by people, Same in the case of Chevalier de Seingalt's memoir. The reading passage claims that Chevalier distorted or invented many events to make his memoir more exciting and glamorous, However, The professor in the listening part clearly stated reasons why she thinks otherwise. In subsequent passage, I will discuss her reasons and examples.
To begin with, Critics say that Chevalier was not a wealthy person, as he used to borrow money from a Swiss merchant to spend on parties, However according to the professor, It was a common practice in Switzerland, where even wealthy people used to borrow money by giving their properties as security, Therefore, memoir depliets the reality.
Secondly, Professor states that Chevalier used to keep a dairy, where he used to note down every conversation. And he used to refer that while writing his memoir, Some people from his era have also confimed that he used to refer to the everyday.
And lastly, CHevalier's jail escape a true account because there were more powerful people than chevalier in the jail and they were not able to escape. After the jail break, jail authroties had to repair his jail cell. Therefore, It proves that Memorir was actually true not fabricated.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 237, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...o confimed that he used to refer to the everyday. And lastly, CHevaliers jail escap...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1073.0 1373.03311258 78% => OK
No of words: 210.0 270.72406181 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10952380952 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.80675409584 4.04702891845 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58832631377 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 130.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.619047619048 0.540411800872 115% => OK
syllable_count: 335.7 419.366225166 80% => 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: 2.0 8.23620309051 24% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => 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: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.0635202019 49.2860985944 173% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.222222222 110.228320801 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 21.698381199 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.55555555556 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 4.45695364238 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243713749677 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0934420837812 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674158806245 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137709745382 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559019728939 0.0443174109184 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.3589403974 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.2367328918 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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