Assignment 6

Assignment 6 for Genesis Class

Revise the following sentences, eliminating redundancy.

(1) I stood to my feet in our huge-sized dining room and walked around the table.
I stood in our huge dining room and walked around the table.

(2) The planet on Lost in Space was round in shape and an especially unique place.
The planet on Lost in Space was round and unique.

(3) Past memories of past history fill the walls of my grandmother’s kitchen wall.
Memories fill the walls of my grandmother's kitchen.

(4) The boy roaming the street was in a confused state and headed for a terrible tragedgy.
The confused boy roaming the street was headed for a tragedy.

Referring to pitfalls 1-10, revise the following passage, avoiding wordiness and undesirable repetition.

A large number of people enjoy reading murder mysteries regularly. As a rule, these people are not themselves murderers, nor would these people really ever enjoy seeing someone commit an actual murder, nor would most of them actually enjoy trying to solve an actual murder. They probably enjoy reading murder mysteries because of this reason: they have found a way to escape from the monotonous, boring routine of dull everyday existence.
To such people the murder mystery is realistic fantasy. It is realistic because the people in the murder mystery are as a general rule believable as people. They are not just made up pasteboard figures. It is also realistic because the character who is the hero, the character who solves the murder mystery, solves it not usually by trial and error and haphazard methods but by exercising a high degree of logic and reason. It is absolutely and totally essential that people who enjoy murder mysteries have an admiration for the human faculty of logic.
But murder mysteries are also fantasies. The people who read such books of fiction play a game. It is a game in which they suspend certain human emotions. One of these human emotions that they suspend is pity. If the reader stops to feel pity and sympathy for each and every victim that is killed or if the reader stops to feel terrible horror that such a thing could happen in our world of today, that person will never enjoy reading murder mysteries. The devoted reader of murder mysteries keeps uppermost in mind at all times the goal of arriving through logic and observation at the final solution to the mystery offered in the book. It is a game with life and death. Whodunits hopefully help the reader to hide from the hideous horrors of actual life and death in the real world.
Many people enjoy reading murder mysteries. Usually these people are not murderers, nor would they enjoy witnessing a murder or trying to solve one. Reading mysteries relieves their boredom and provides escape from their everyday lives. Mystery readers enjoy their fantasies with realistic characters and a hero who solves the mystery logically. But mysteries are fantasies, and the people who read them must suspend certain emotions, like pity, while reading. They must detach themselves from sympathizing too closely with the victims or considering the horror of these crimes to enjoy these stories. Devoted readers focus on the application of logic and observation to the solution of the crime, which helps them hide from the horrors of modern life.