Réponse :Part 1 :

To begin, with this document is an extract of an emission which was published in twenty-o-nine. This extract comes from the emission Success Television and was titled « Create your dream with success television ».  

The person who speaks during all the time of this video is Stuart Gelles, probably a businessman.

This extract deals with the representation between one person and her house. Stuart analyses and interprets people from a house in order to highlight three categories of homeowners: Be-er house, Dream-er house and Do-er house.

We will be able to explain this video in three parts in the same way as Stuart by determining the three parts utterance.

Firstly, we will talk about the first category of people and her house, so the Be-er house.

According to the protagonist, it is possible to visualize a homeowner by her house. We can understand that some people are well matched with her house. For example, with this kind of homeowner, if a woman is perfectly groomed, so is her house just as much. When he described this woman and her house, it was able to compare this person with the famous character, Bree Van de Kamp from Desperate Housewives, because she spends her time maintaining her home as the same way to her looks. Furthermore, to enhance his explication, Stuart used words “relationship”, “connection”, “intimacy” and “love”, this allows to characterize even more the caricatured person. To summarize, the Be-er house can be expressed as « you are like your house, no more, no less ».

Secondly, we can explain the second part of homeowner, so the Dream-er house. During this part of the speech, Stuart described people who imagine a perfect house, as demonstrated using words “vision”, “spirit” and “innovation”. Even if he only very briefly passes on the topic, we understand that kind of people looks to the futuredespite their house. When we study Stuart’s sayings, it is easier to imagine that the Dream-er house is for example, engineers or scientists with new technologies or futurist designs. The movie that best represents of this is Smart House by LeVar Burton.

Thirdly, the last part of the document talks about the Do-er house. In fact, when Stuart used these words, we can understand that the kind of people which build her house as she wish. The interlocutor used words “action” and “ego”. Thought that, it is possible to interpret those by hard person or probably by an embitter person. We can confirm these eventualities by using of word “rules”, “order” and “discipline” at the end of the Stuart’s explication. May be, by this explication, we can say that the Do-er house, create her house but also the atmosphere presents in her house, in other word, the soul of the home.

To conclude, this extract of the emission Success Television, showcases the Stuart Gelles’ point of view about different kind of homeowner despite three caricatures named: Be-er house, Dream-er house, and Do-er house. So, after analysing of that, we can ask ourselves is it possible to switch from one category to another.

To finish, I will give my opinion about this document. In my opinion, I agree with Stuart. Indeed, I think our house represents who we are, and it is possible to understand anybody through her house. But in actual fact, I suppose that there are more than three kinds of people because human beings evolved as her house. I’m not a hundred percent certain, but it is impossible to restrain all of that in just three categories. I can’t name other categories, might be “destroy-er house” or “progress-er house”, I can’t say. It’s obvious that everyone is different, and every house is also different.

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