REVIEW
TEXT
Review text is a text
which summarizes, criticizes, responds, and analyses to the art works. People
can review TV shows, books, dramas, movies, operas, exhibitions, music concerts
and so on.
As other texts in English, review text also has its
own generic structure.
The generic structure as follows :
1. Orientation
In this part the reviewer will tell
the background of the text
2. Interpretative
recount
the characters and the plot of the
text will be attached by the reviewer in this part.
3. Evaluation
It consists of concluding
statements, judgement, and opinions.
4. Evaluation
summation
It tells about the last opinion
consisting of the appraisal of the art work that is being reviewed.
Language features of a
review text are focusing on a specific participant, using adjectives, using
long and complex clauses, and using metaphor.
Here is the example of
reviewed text, and your task is you have to define its generic structure!
The
pearl by John Steinbeck is the retelling of a legend about a fisherman who finds
a huge pearl. Realizing that the discovery is destroying his life, he returns
the pearl into the sea.
It
is told in an authentic style that readers feel like they are hearing the story
from one of the villagers that knows all of the characters. In spite of its
apparent simplicity, however, there are several levels to appreciate in reading
The Pearl.
Some
critics have pointed out that the author was committed to ecology. This book
was really about his statements about the dangers of creating an imbalance in
the natural environment. When the fisherman throws the pearl back into the sea,
he is restoring the natural order. In fact, Steinbeck was a member of an
expedition to explore marine life along the Gulf of California when he heard
the legend of the ‘pearl of the world.’
Other
critics have suggested that Steinbeck’s concern for the condition of the
working class was reflected in the relationships among the characters. The
priest becomes interested in the poor fisherman’s family after the pearl is
found because he hopes to receive a donation that will enable him to improve his
church. The doctor who has refused to treat the fisherman’s baby in the past is
solicitous when it becomes known that the fisherman has found a valuable pearl.
At even more direct example of exploitation is the way that the pearl merchants
take advantages of the fisherman in the village.
Finally,
the work has been interpreted as an allegory of human desire, the vanity of
material wealth,and the struggle between good and evil. Although the fisherman
had dreamed of buying peace and happiness with the pearl, he realizes that
these spiritual gifts are beyond price. They cannot be purchased. Steinbeck
himself writes in the introduction. “ If this story is a parable, perhaps
everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it.”
Precisely
this latitude for personal interpretation within universal themes gives The Pearl such enduring appeal.
SUMBER : MASMEDIA
