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 passage and the lecture, both discuss the trustworthy of chevalier's writings. In the reading part, the author mentions that his memoir was exaggerated because of the three main reasons: first, he was poor, second, the conversation that was recorded wrote many years after the accurate time, third, the matter of escaping from prison. In the listening part, however, the speaker castes serious doubt on what the author mentioned and refutes the reasons.
To begin with, as mentioned in the article, the author sets forth that chevalier said his was wealthy, in contrast, he borrowed money from a wealthy man. Nevertheless, the lecture rebuts the reasons, assorting that achieving to his own money considered lots of time, hence distances. he did not access to the cash, as a result of that he had to borrow the money for a while.
Secondly, the author points out there is a doubting evidence that conversation between chevalier and Voltaire actually existed. it was write many years later and it could not possible to write it with such an accurate and relevant detail. however, the speaker flatly contradicts and contends that conversation wrote immediately after that happened and chevalier recorded it that night in his diaries. it provides a proof to the fact that he could remember it easily after passing years by referring to his notes. Indeed, composing movements confirmed this idea.
third, the author claims that he could not run away from prison of venice, offering a bribe from his friends. Using just a piece of metal is more likely to stories that might be tail and rarely happen in the real world. On the other hand, the lecturer postulates that it is undeniable that he had powerful friends in venice, but, there is a series evidence that demonstrate it accident is true; after escaping, ceiling was repaired at that time.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, hence, however, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, third, while, in contrast, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 12.0772626932 132% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 30.3222958057 125% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1553.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00967741935 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56120906672 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548387096774 0.540411800872 101% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0494270587 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.928571429 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1428571429 21.698381199 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.4285714286 7.06452816374 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => 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: 0.189529029107 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0603418525695 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477890353758 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114931027601 0.162205337803 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.033571506363 0.0443174109184 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.2367328918 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25 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.