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Analysis of the text “Anne Meets Her Class” by Miss Reed The text under review is entitled “Anne Meets Her Class” by Miss Reed. This abstract can obviously be referred to belle-lettres (fiction) style. Its genre may be defined as a school story (a fiction genre centering on school life). Thus, the story raises eternal issues of upbringing and deals with up-to-date problems of human relationships, namely, relations of pupils and teachers and teachers’ interactions, which are the theme of the story. The main idea can be expressed in the following way: “Teachers (adults) impose their system of relationships on pupils (children), trying to make them ‘convenient’ and sometimes intentionally suppressing their natural freedom”. The central …show more content…

At the same time, the author clearly expresses her attitude towards both types of behavior. The first one is unnatural, conditioned by their fear of Miss Enderby, who suppresses every human emotion in them and even an ability to understand her. The second type of behavior is believed to be natural not tied or limited by any fears or regulations. Moreover, this footloose and natural behavior helps identify Anne’s position in this world. She doesn’t belong to pupils, but she doesn’t belong to teachers either. Only when she starts shouting (i.e., acquires the same style of behavior which is based on intimidating pupils and suppressing their freedom), can they associate her with teachers. Only two pupils are distinguished by the author: a freckled girl, favoured by Miss Enderby, and Arnold, disliked by her. The former is described with the help of biting satire, the latter is presented with a touch of humour. Consequently, several types of conflicts are exposed: (1) substantial (social): teachers and pupils oppose each other, acting like conflicting parties or enemies at war (Anne advances into action, the headmistress warns her about the potentially dangerous element), (2) local

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