AN IOWA CHRISTMAS presentation- Structure

Structure analysis~ AN IOWA CHRISTMAS ~

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Para 1 recall the Christmas celebration in his childhood memory. Para 2-6 the journey to the farm. Para 7-8 the barn in the farm. It implies the Christmas will begin. Para 9-23 the handmade Christmas. Para 24-25 return home.

Para 1 The author uses the “Bells” to connect the usual Christmas with the one which the author experienced in his childhood. Bells is also a essential part of the Christmas in the region where he spent his childhood. And the bells evoke the memory of the special Christmas of his family.

Para 2-6Para 2:departure: a lively scene The bells arose the author’s childhood memory, the Iowa Christmas begins The whole family piling into the bobsled. The horse team stamping the soft snow.

departure

Para 2-6Para 3:streets For the sake of sleighs and easy travel, the snow on the streets was sensibly left. We met other horses as well as other different bells. We would pass the brass-mounted automobile with a triumphant.

streets

Para 2-6Para 4:Little hills The walnut trees in the groves of timber were cut down to be made into gunstocks for the First World War. I could break the watermelon to see its Christmas colors of green skin and red inside.

Little hills

Para 2-6Para 5-6:arrivals Bells: the harness bells ringing and dashing faraway steeples; Animals: horses whinnying, dogs leaping into bobsled and burrowing under the buffalo robes; People: boy and girl cousins howling around.

arrivals

Para 7-8Para 7: the senses of smell and hearing in the barn Smell: the body heat of animals; oats, hay and straw tangy with the live August sunlight; the manure steaming; leather harness; the molasses-sweet odor of ensilage. Sound: pigs making their dark; brown-sounding grunts; also the horses whinnying. Para 8: this is where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air the Christ Child breathed.

Para 9-23Para 9-19:handmade Christmas The tree: came from down in the grove. The gifts: popcorn balls, paper horns, hand-knit socks… The Christmas dinner: Pies, cottage cheese, bread, smoked pork; Every form of preserve; Traditional sauerkraut; All meat from the home place; All trimmings from the farm; Special Christmas food from all families.

Para 9-23Para 20-23: have the meal & thank the Lord To eat in the same room where food is cooked – that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance. My uncle would ask the grace… The first act of dedication on such a Christmas was…. The second was….

Para 24-25 The time after dinner: The women, the men, the children; The cats, the birds; A song around the tree; Thanks all around for gifts. The returning to home. Bells….

Para 1 recall the Christmas celebration in his childhood memory. Para 2-6 the journey to the farm. Para 7-8 the barn in the farm. It implies the Christmas will begin. Para 9-23 the h

andmade Christmas. Para 24-25 return home.

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