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The Reaping Race by Liam O’Flaher­ty - Interpre­tation

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The Reaping Race

By Liam O’Flaherty


Interpretation: The Reaping Race

The extract under consideration is selected from Liam O’Flaherty story of the same name. Liam O’Flaherty Irish novelist and short-story writer, who took part in revolutionary activities in Ireland. O’Flaherty’s works include novels Thy Neighbour’s Wife, The Black Soul, The Informer, Famine, and short stories Short Stories; The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories; as well as several other novels and collections of short stories.

In the given passage, three families, Bodkin, Considine and Gill, participate in the reaping race to win Five-Pound Note and Best man in Inverara title. They have different tactics for having rest and meal and are watched by the excited spectators. Their physical and psychic conditions change throughout the race and finally the Gills win.

The title of the text and particularly the word “race” creates the expectations that somebody is competing and there is a prize, as the race presupposes a competition between individuals or groups to see which is the fastest and to achieve a particular objective. So there is also the idea of speed which the author develops for each family.

Firstly, the Bodkins, their way of work and rest are described. For this family, the author creates a semantic field with the meaning “much, a lot, great” using such vocabulary as: a can full of tea, a whole oven cake, cut in large pieces, coated heavily, great quantity of food and drink.

Moreover, their speed is also described with the help of intensifiers, for example, it took them two minutes and three-quarters to finish that great quantity of food and drink (which is extremely fast to eat such great amount of food), they ravenously devoured food.

And to demonstrate how fast Bodkin works and eats the author uses comparison to eat as much speed as he had reaped the rye; work ag.....[read full text]

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In the end, the author uses syntactical repetition and short sentences to create dynamism: He kept drinking. He kept looking towards it…He became sleepy. He began to talk to himself.

By way of conclusion, the author draws different characters who demonstrate different tactics, relations towards the race and the general organization of the work. Moreover, the race shows how people can change in the str.....


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