He explains how the games were run and the profits spent why the ties between members of 'the brotherhood' were so important and how he came to kill a man who worked for him. Briefly, and matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He remembers his first love affair, and the girl he ran away with, and the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. He talks about his first police raid, and the brutal interrogation and imprisonment that followed it. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area. It wasn’t a 'good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. The work can be useful in guiding how the appraisal framework can be applied in textual analysis. The work is also based on Bakhtin's notion that all language is in some ways dialogic. It is also endeavored to find how this analysis is used to create and resist power structure. The work also focuses on the lexical choices which create a web of power relations and this appraisal analysis. The work addresses the issue of how major and minor characters in My Feudal Lord foregrounds interpersonal resources in negotiating poer in the existing power system. She explores the role that evaluative meanings play in the dissemination of ideology in negotiation of writer/reader relationship. The author offers an insight into the nature of evaluative language.

The author has applied this framework to explore the power structure in My Feudal Lord, an autobiographical book by Tehmina Durrani. Appraisal Framework has been duly acknowledged and given due importance in the works of J.R Martin and Peter White.

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