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 article states that the Chevalier’s memoir is not accurate but many events are created to make it more exciting and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that the memoir is accurate because of the following reasons.
First, critics questions on the wealth of the Chevalier while living in Switzerland because he had lots of loans. The professor refutes this point by saying that the Chevalier went to many parties in Switzerland and ran out of money when his money had not come yet. It took several days for his money to come so that he borrowed money to wait for his asset.
Second, critics doubt the accuracy of the conversations between the Chevalier and writer Voltaire because it was written many years after the actual conversation. The professor opposes this point my explaining that the Chevalier wrote down everything about his journey every day. He states that people said the Chevalier took notes and wrote journals.
Third, the reading says that critics believe the Chevalier did not escape from a prison in Venice, Italy but he were bribed to be free. The professor refutes this point by revealing that other friends of him in that jail had power and better relationship with government than him but no one of his friends could escape from the prison but him. In addition, the professor indicated one interesting point that after his escape, the ceiling of the jail had to be prepared. There would be no reason to repair the ceiling if it was not be broken.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, third, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1262.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 258.0 270.72406181 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89147286822 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00778971557 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54506879234 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527131782946 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 384.3 419.366225166 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => 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: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0074779156 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.166666667 110.228320801 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.206923331809 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079650063987 0.0996497079465 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0331711313478 0.0662205650399 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130042824417 0.162205337803 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.041267941318 0.0443174109184 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.2367328918 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.31 8.42419426049 87% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.7273730684 84% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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