DATA ANALYSIS

 Move analysis (Motta-Roth’s model)

 Additional rhetoric strategies
 Frequency of each move and sub-move
 comparison

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BOOK REVIEW: DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS

M1S1 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is considered to be the most closest work resembling
Dickens life.

M1S5 It is autobiography.

M1S1 It is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished
childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

AM There is a funny anecdote related to this book.

AM At the time when I was reading David Copperfield, a friend of mine tells me that it is the first book
Sigmund Freud gave his fiancee, Martha Bernays, on their engagement in 1882.

AM At the moment, I wanted to question his anecdote but I thought it otherwise.

AM I said to myself, ‘Why not read this 900 pages book and find the answer to that ‘why’ myself?’ And
indeed I did.

M2S2 The first half of the novel begins with the childhood of David Copperfield.

M2S2 The childhood starts of with his father’s death only when he is three years old.

M2S2 His mother, very young, pretty, and inexperienced, raises the boy with the help of her loyal maid,
Clara Peggoty.

M2S2 Things go well, young David is growing up in a happy, loving home until his mother marries again.

M2S2 David’s stepfather, believes that firmness is the only way of dealing with boys.

M2S2 He ends up sending Davy away to a boarding school run by a cruel schoolmaster.

M2S2 When David’s mother dies, Mr. Murdstone decides that even this kind of education is too good
for his stepson and promptly gets rid of him by sending him to London, to work at a blacking factory.

M2S2 David is only ten when that happens.

M2S2 After many trials, he decides to run away and search for his aunt who eventually adopts him.
M3S1 The second half of David Copperfield displays Dickens at his best.

M3S1 A reader will certainly adore and admire Dickens writing manner.

M3S1 The most solid foundation of the book, I consider are the characters.

M3S1 Dickens typically seems to employ static characters to represent the good and bad elements of life
and nature.

M3S1 Every character is given his own distinctive and instantly recognizable voice.

M3S1 Some of them are timeless including the Copperfield himself.

M3S1 As the story picks up and becomes more complicated, with David Copperfield establishing himself
in business, falling in love, breakiang friendships, and traveling abroad, the language weave an
interesting web around him and his journey, one which connects the reader to David and encourages
him to come along, to see what happens, to experience what David was experiencing.

M3S1 If more, Dickens draws revealingly on his own experiences to create this story with equal
measure of tragedy, and comedy.

M3S2 The last hundred pages become a drag as Dickens closes on various characters lives along with
the protagonist and narrator, David Copperfield.

M3S1 Though the conclusion is satisfying enough.

M3S1 There is no doubt David Copperfield is one of the best work of Charles Dickens.