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.
The reading states that the Chevalier life events were criticized by people. The passage also hypothesizes that Chevalier manipulated the events mentioned in the memoir to make himself appear interesting and glamorous in society. However, the professor opposes and refutes all the claims made in the passage. She casts doubts on the main points of the passage based on three reasons.
First of all, the reading claims that the Chevalier might not be a rich man because he borrowed a large amount of money from Swiss merchants. The professor disagrees with this argument by explaining that the Chevalier might have taken loans from the merchants. Additionally, she also mentions that he was wealthy but to pay for parties and gambling he had to sell his properties which took time. Therefore, the Chevalier borrowed money to pay for his leisure.
Secondly, the reading argues that Chevalier's record of meeting with the famous writer Voltaire is doubtful and questions the accuracy of the conversations recorded in the memoir. The professor opposes this idea. She believes that Chevalier maintained a personal journal in which he use to record all his daily life events and activities. The speaker also justifies that people who knew the Chevalier clarified that he indeed kept a journal. Thus, the professor expresses that the memoir is accurate since Chevalier's journal might have provided all the actual conversations phrases.
Finally, the reading states that Chevalier's prison escape is questionable and he might have escaped by tipping off the jailers through his powerful friends. On the contrary, the professors suggest that the same prison had lots of other people who had more powerful contact than the Chevalier, still, they were not able to escape. Additionally, she mentions that an old Venice government document is evidential proof of his escape because the document has a record of how the jail ceiling was repaired immediately after the Chevalier had escaped from the jail.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...intained a personal journal in which he use to record all his daily life events and...
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Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'uses'.
Suggestion: uses
...intained a personal journal in which he use to record all his daily life events and...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, thus, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 30.3222958057 112% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1672.0 1373.03311258 122% => OK
No of words: 320.0 270.72406181 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.225 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22948505376 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69860351617 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51875 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9334688633 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.5 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 21.698381199 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.1875 7.06452816374 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
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: 0.245778746837 0.272083759551 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0810582227196 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543329609987 0.0662205650399 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148209601435 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0491945005838 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 53.8541721854 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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