In chapter seven of Carl Hiaasen's book flush precise words were used to help the reader connect with the text. In this chapter the main character's dad was interviewed and his mom is thinking of getting a divorce. One example of this is when the author used the word rummaging, instead of looking. It gives you the feel that something is lost. Another example of this is when the word snooped was used instead of sneak. This gives the feel of looking for something instead of just trying not to be seen. Additionally another example is when faint was used, instead of weak. This gives a feel of something not completely useless, but still won't help that much. In this chapter sensory detail helped the reader by connecting them and making them want
Chapter 1: This book starts in the chronological middle of the story. It has Krakauer atop everest with a storm brewing. Then it starts to explain physical ailments like coughing, separated ribs, trouble breathing, and a varied mental state because of a lack of oxygen. Two other guides are up with him Anatoli Boukreev and Andy Harris.
In the book High Price, highly credible author and neuroscientist, Dr. Carl Hart explains the misconceptions that everyone normally has about drugs and their users. He uses his own life experiences coming from a troubled neighborhood in Florida. The book consists of Hart’s life growing up with domestic violence in his household and the chance he had to come out and excel academically. He talks about the war on drugs and how within this war on drugs we were actually fighting the war with the wrong thing.
Harrison Bergeron is a short story that creates many images and feelings while using symbols and themes to critique aspects of our lives. In the story, the future US government implements a mandatory handicap for any citizens who is over their standards of normal. The goal of the program is to make everyone equal in physical capabilities, mental aptitude and even outward appearance. The story is focused around a husband and wife whose son, Harrison, was taken by the government because he is very strong and smart, and therefore too above normal not to be locked up. But, Harrison’s will is too great. He ends up breaking out of prison, and into a TV studio where he appears on TV. There, he removes the government’s equipment off of himself, and a dancer, before beginning to dance beautifully until they are both killed by the authorities. The author uses this story to satire
Both authors use sensory imagery to create vivid images in the reader's mind with ease. In Harrison “In the trenches,” he uses descriptive similes and personifications to show the reader the disturbing reality of war effectively. After being viscously bombed, Harrison beautifully describes the “S.O.S” flare that is sent up shortly after being attacked, saying that “the sky is lit by hundreds of fancy fireworks like a night carnival.” This descriptive simile creates a visual image of a sky so bright that it resembles a carnival at night. As incoming bombs were dropping Harrison describes them by using the simile “the air screams and howls like an insane woman,” from this line any reader can imagine what it would sound like if artillery was dropping and exploding near you. Similarly, in twains “two ways of seeing a river,” he uses similes to create vivid images of the “majestic river.” Right from the beginning twain states that “I [have] mastered the language of this water and…every trifling feature…as familiarly as I [know] the letters of the alphabet.” This simile compares his vast knowledge of all the features of the river to his familiarity to the alphabets. The reader can visualize the importance and beauty of the river. Also, both authors similarly utilize sensory
man. Finally, he uses the book to compare the Vietnam conflict to the American Revolution.
In chapter 1 we are introduced to a character named bernie who is on a T2 tanker ship. Bernie is thinking about his young wife named Mariam, who is in her bed with the case of the flu. At a young age Bernie was born to the sea. Bernie followed his brother Bob into the coast guard. He enlisted onto the coast guard on february 26, 1946 and was sent to maryland. 10 years later he was now on duty in chatham. Bernie’s first challenge of a coast guard happened in 1949 when he responded to a distress call at Chatham lifeboat station. Where the boat USS Livermore had run aground on Bearse’s Shoal, off Monomoy
In Robert’s A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers the story takes place during an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids of Klendathu. The main character, Johnnie Rico signs up to join the military with his friend Carl and ends up joining the Mobile Infantry. He makes it through a tough boot camp and barely makes it through training where some of his trainees die on missions. Once he finishes training he begins in the war against “The Bugs”. The war begins with a raid from the bugs on Buenos Aires that kills a lot of people including Johnnie’s mother. In retaliation the Mobile Infantry raids the bug’s homeland, Klendathu, which turns out to be unsuccessful. Johnnie then joins the platoon “Rasczak’s Roughnecks”
People use the word okay nearly every day. It is a word that everyone knows and uses due to its vast meanings. To be okay, is what Gary D. Schmidt’s novel Okay for Now really tries to get readers to understand. He poses the question: just what does “okay for now” mean? These answers are found through examining the characters in the store. While, okay can mean many different things, being okay means that the person is in a state where while things are not perfect, but they are tolerable and satisfactory and can improve.
Habakkuk wrote this book in the middle of one of the darkest periods of Israel’s history. According to Habakkuk 1:3-4, the way of the people lives were really messed up and wronged, where all the things that Habakkuk can see are injustice, violence, and conflict. Furthermore, all these conditions affect every parts of life and it causes the law losing its strength and justice is perverted. According to the passage’s flow, this book can be divided into two parts (1:1-2:20; 3:1-19) where each part, contains a different settings and Habakkuk’s conditions in dealing with the moral dilemma that he had about God’s holiness and God’s sovereignty over injustice. If we looked closely, the particular passages that I picked (Habakkuk 2:1-8), played such
This summer I read lots of novels, but none of them stood out as much as Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen. This realistic fiction novel is about a young boy named Roy. He lived in the mountains of Montana until his father's job forced him to move to Coconut cove, Florida. At first things are tough. He gets called names and gets bullied, he wishes that he was still in Montana. But suddenly on the bus while Roy is getting bullied he notices this blonde haired boy running on beside the bus, he get interested and decides to take action the next day… Roy finds that “Mullet Fingers” is a boy on a mission. His mission is to save owls that are threatened to be killed because their home is placed underground right where a Aunt Paula Pancakes is yet to be built.
Lewis Hine - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Lewis Hine was a photographer in the early 1900's. He photographed children, women, and men. Lewis Hine did not just photograph all the good things, he also took pictures of the hard things too, like the boys working in the mines, to the girls working in the sweatshops. In 1911, Lewis Hine took a job with the National Child Labor Committee. He then used his photography to show the world what it is really like to live in America during the Depression. Lewis Hine always respected his subjects. He never wanted to take photos of random people. He wanted to capture something that nobody else saw. He felt a moral obligation to share with the world the visions of children, women, and the horrible working conditions they were forced to work in.
O'Brien gives great meaning to these details by embedding them in this way. When skimming through these lists, the reader becomes desensitized, but by interspersing these mundane item...
Schakel, Peter J., and Jack Ridl. "Everyday Use." Approaching Literature: Writing Reading Thinking. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 109-15. Print.
Readers will find details about almost anything that comes to play in the story, such as the wind and how ferocious it is or how it gives great detail on the sign Johnson goes to look at. “She could see that it had been there for a long time because its original pain was streaked with rust where years of rain and snow had finally eaten the paint off down to the metal and the metal had slowly rusted, making a dark red stain like blood”. This sentence has a lot of detail in it explaining how old the sign is, how long it must’ve been there and how rusty it look, without so much details Petry could have just said the sign was old a rusty but that wouldn’t appeal to many people. The selection of detail helps bring readers in and make them keep reading along with making the story more
Patrick Suskind’s use of visual imagery captures the audiences’ sense of smell by dragging the reader into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is unique as it creates a reality by ‘painting a picture’ in the mind of the reader through the olfactory senses. Suskind does, on many occasions, manipulate the readers’ basic instincts through the novel’s protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille.