Intro
The author depicts the possible reactions of people when their fantasies vanish.
What is fantasy and what is real?
When the so-called fantasy and dream have disappeared, one must confront the harsh reality; this is what the author wishes to express.
Paragraph 1
What will you do when your fantasy is shattered ? How do you react? Are you willing to face the harsh reality?
The music box is the sustenance of her fantasy, and it disappears when the music box is lost.
The author uses symbolism to tell the story. He applies the music box to represent the girl’s naivety and fantasy; her father gives her a very beautiful fantasy with the gift of a pretty music box. When a fantasy vanishes, a sense of loss and feelings of unable to accept and face the reality are unavoidable.
For example, the girl keeps asking her mother the whereabouts of the music box, when she is told that it is broken, she is unwilling to accept and face the fact that her fantasy has been shattered.
Another example is that when the girl has found the fragments of the broken music box in the trash, she does not pick them up, but just caresses them and put them back and goes away. It shows that the girl has accepted the reality and given up her fantasy and dream.
Paragraph 2
When fantasy has gone, no more hope is held up, and the fantasy will vanish with the time. The author applies characterization to describe the protagonist’s personality. From this passage at the beginning of the story,”…………………….”, we can see that the girl has a naïve, romantic and dreamer character; that’s why she feels grieved and sad when she discovers the music box has been broken, so much so that she shouts at her mother and accepts nothing from what her mother has said. However, after sober contemplation and time has also shifted her focus, she gives up the music box; her love for it has been played down by time; this is why the family never again mentions this music box.
Paragraph 3
What’s your reaction when confronted with the harsh reality?
The author applies description to vividly tell the story details. He meticulously describes the dialogues, behaviors and emotions of the protagonists to allow us to imagine the development of the story.
For examples:
“…………………..”, This passage shows that the mother forces the girl to accept the harsh reality. Her mother keeps on telling her the fact of the broken music box; she does not want the girl to be indulged in her dream and fantasy, that’s why her mother tells her the truth straightforward.
“………………..”, This passage shows the girl’s reaction when her feelings suffer a big blow and has to face the harsh reality.
“………………….”. This passage shows that the rooftop of this house can represent the spiritual support and spiritual state of this family. Despite poverty-stricken, they still use a spiritual well-being to deceive themselves.
The author makes the story more complete by summing up the girl’s initial unacceptable reaction to her final receptive reaction which allows her fantasy to go away.
What is fantasy? What is real then? The author depicted the response of a person who had his/her own fantasy broke to bring out the intented message ---After this so called dreams and fantasies had vanished, one must face the cruel reality.
How would you act when your dream or fantasy broke? Are you willing to confront the naked truth? The music box is the representation of the dream. When it broke, the hopes and fantasies that are carried would be vanished as well.
The author applied symbolism techniques in storytelling. The music box is the symbol of naive, pure fantasy of the young girl. Her father gifted her a delicate music box, and at the same time granted her a beautiful "fantasy". When this so called "dream" was gone, we felt lost, we found the truth unacceptable and kept rejecting it. Take the stories of the young girl as an example, she kept asking her mother for the lost music box. But when her mother told her the truth that it was smashed, the girl refused to accept this fact and unwilling to believe that her percious dream had gone. The second example is the scene where the girl finally found the pieces of her music box. She gently touch the pieces and put them back to the dump. This reaction was a symbol for her to give up her fantasy and dream, and start facing the truth.
Hopes were no more after the dream had faded. But this broken dream would be washed away by time. The writer employed characterization to give us a clear picture of a character's trait and personality. In the beginning of the story, it wrote"....". From this paragraph, we can tell that the girl is full of romance, innocence, and fantasy in her character. And thus, reasonably explained her reactions towards the lost music box. After she had calmed herself, after time had distracted her focus, her love to the music box was extinct. She had completely given it up. And therefore, this family no longer mention a single word about the music box afterwards.
How to confront the cruel, cold truths? How would you response to it?
The author made good use of description to clearly describe the details in the story. Either the conversations between characters, their behaviors and emotions, the author gave the reader rich details and rooms for imagination to further develope the plot. Here are the examples. ".......". This paragraph portrayed how her mother was forcing her daugther to face the bloody truth. She wanted to save her daughter from drowning in the fantasy, in the broken dream. Hence, she directly tell the truth of the smashed music box after her daughter's endless questioning. The paragraph "...." showed how the girl was shocked and responded when she must face the cruel reality. Moreover, this description "....." also finely displayed the spiritual support and status of the house roof, a self-deception---we may be poor but we have beautiful minds.
The author progressively tell the story of the young girl. From how she was in denial, to finally accept the truth, to the fully vanishment of her fantasy. This plot developement gave us a story with high integrity(completness).
...P.S.
1. 下次翻译请说明程度...小学和中学的简单相差甚远....这边中学程度应该都看得懂了吧?
2. 残酷真相出现次数很多，这里分别用了naked truth, fact, cruel reality, 及bloody truth...其实还有ugly fact...可以用
吐槽: 时间都去哪儿了?早上就给了LZ....
Intro
Theauthor portrayed the reaction of human being when the illusions disappeared
What is illusion? What is reality anyway?
When the fantasy imagination and illusory dream disappear,one must face the curial of reality.
The author is trying to reveal this idea.
Bodyparagraph# 1
what will you be when your illusion collapse? Whatwill your reaction be? Will you be willing to face the cruel reality?
The little girl places her dream upon the musicbox, and when the music box disappears
Her sustenance of dream also disappears.
The author portrayed the story through the literarytechniques of symbolism, in which the author portrays the music box as the girl’sinnocence and fantasy.
Her father gives her a beautiful music box, as wellas offering her a fantasy of dream.
When the dream disappears, consequently we mightfeel a sense of alienation as well as the emotion of escaping from reality.
For example when the girl in the story continuouslyasks her mother about her music box, so did her mother tells her the music boxhas been broken.
The girl is refusing to accept truth, not willingto accept the reality of her dream of innocence has been destroyed.
Another example would be that when the girl findsher broken pieces of music; instead of picking the pieces up, she gently touchesit and leave them where they were the left.
The meaning here is to indicate the girl is willing toface the reality and give up her dream and fantasy
从结构和你写的部分来看这比较像读书后要求写的作文，而且应该是在美国或者是美式学校；包括里面的analytical statics 和 literary techniques。我现在就在美国留学所以你可以相信我的翻译。
不过 我只翻译了intro 和 body 1，如果你觉得可以的话采纳我之后我再把剩下的部分给你
你自己直接百度翻译不就得？
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