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 Chevaliers 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 and The lecturer are both about the accuracy of the chevalier memoir. The author of the reader felt that memoir is distorted. chevalier has added many events by himself to make it more interesting which the author explains with the three possible reasons. While the lecturer challenges the claim by the author. he is of the opinion that memoir is accurate and reliable.
To begin with, the author claims that chevalier was not wealthy because the article mentions that If chevalier was actually being a rich person then he would not have lent the money from Swiss merchant. this specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. he claims that chevalier was actually a rich guy. he was having a huge amount of assets. In order to get the money, he has to sell his property which takes time. In meantime, the chevalier borrowed the money. In addition, he says that lending money for a time being does not prove that he was poor.
Secondly, The author doubts the conversation accuracy which chevalier had with the famous writer Voltaire. In the article, it is said that the conversation had happened long back ago and it is not possible that anybody could remember the exact wording of the meeting. The lecturer, however, refutes this by mentioning that chevalier use to write down every part of the conversation at the night. he confirms the point by mentioning the witness who confirms this activity of chevalier.
Lastly, the author questioned the chevalier's escape from the prison. According to the memoir, he escaped from the prison by making a hole using a piece of metal which the author finds faulty. The author claim that it was added in the memoir to make reading interesting. Moreover, in the article, it is stated that his escape was only possible by bribing the jailer. he had many politically well-connected friends which could had offer him the bribe. In contrast, The lecturer’s position is that there are many more powerful men than chevaliers but they have not been able to escape till now then how could chevalier would do so. he notes that Government documents cite that ceiling was repaired later.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, as to, in addition, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 22.412803532 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1777.0 1373.03311258 129% => OK
No of words: 364.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88186813187 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5409147439 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 145.348785872 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502747252747 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 543.6 419.366225166 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 2.5761589404 311% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.9153560894 49.2860985944 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 77.2608695652 110.228320801 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8260869565 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78260869565 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 4.19205298013 286% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225672053238 0.272083759551 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704107102954 0.0996497079465 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0372391809144 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138062995477 0.162205337803 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350823214293 0.0443174109184 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.3589403974 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 53.8541721854 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.0289183223 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.2367328918 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 63.6247240618 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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