The experience a person has while reading a novel, directly relates to the word choice and organization, the author creates emotion, simple understanding to help further develop characters. The Cellist of Sarajevo follows three different characters through their experiences and difficulty of living during the Bosnian war. The war had a great impact on all three of the characters, Arrow, Dragan, and Keenan, as they were forced to live and make decisions that could affect their own well-being. Steven Galloway’s novel uses an effective writing style as his word choices show beneficial repetition of phrases, simple word choice that gives all readers a greater understanding and organization to further develop characters. When authors use repetition it helps the reader connect to the importance of the novel. In this novel Galloway uses repetition in the beginning of the novel as he repeats the phrase: “It SCREAMED DOWNWARD, …show more content…
The easier the words are to understand the broader the audience will be. Throughout the novel words and phrases that are known to be simple are used such as: “At first, Arrow isn’t sure whether to trust what she sees” (Galloway, 73). The use of words like “first” and “sees” helps the novel appeal to people of all ages and reading skill levels. The words could be altered to sound more sophisticated yet, Galloway chooses not the do that. This helps portray the emotions and thoughts of the character in a way that everyone can understand and appreciate. Galloway comprehends that people are more likely to understand when the words used are simpler; he creates minimalism to entice readers. The words and phrases are not complicated it is helpful for everyone reading the novel, its beneficial to the reader when they can absorb and understand what it really happening. Galloway strongly displays word choice in a favourable way throughout the novel, as well as strong
The narrator and her lover Peter travel to Sarajevo in Bosnia, Yugoslavia for a holiday to make sure what they have is the real thing. This is the same city where Princip shot the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduchess, igniting the timber that started World War I. By setting the story in this same historic city, Weldon is drawing parallels between the Princip’s situation and the narrator’s. The narrator is struggling between what is moral and how her actions are going to affect everyone and everything around her. Similarly the Princip also had to decide whether or not to shoot the Archduke. On the other hand, Princip does decide to shoot the Archduke and Archduchess for the love of his country and the results are spending the rest of his life in prison. Through the setting, Weldon places the narrator in geologically in the same place and in the same mindset as Princip makes this huge
Tony Palmer, the author of “Break of Day”, tells a story that takes place in and out of war. The story follows a man named Murray Barrett who lives in the times of ww2. He ends up finding himself in the middle of it, down at Port Moresby. During the midst of war, Murray ends up coming across an injured Sid Archer, a childhood enemy and the man who stole Will’s (Murray’s older brother) childhood lover. Murray helps Sid instead of abandoning him, despite their childhood drama. In this book, Palmer really focuses on the themes of family, death, and bravery. He presents to us how complicated families can get, how people deal with death differently from others, and how there are many forms of bravery.
Thatcher makes use of repetition at many different points throughout her writing. At one point starts a string of three different paragraphs with "others". In the 12th paragraph she starts every sentence with "Yet, he". The repetition helps her strengthen her eulogy about Ronald Regan.
...ivilian running from war. Kamara’s story is mostly of her own life and how she survived the war, which does inform the world about how the war is to a young child and the importance of morals. However, Beah’s story includes the lives of many people he met that were involved in war. His story left a deep impression on a young teenager. All stories can be informing, but those that contain the true and insightful view of the author can create influences to a diverse audience.
Throughout the life of an individual most people would agree that dealing with tough conflict is an important part in growing as a person. In “The Cellist of Sarajevo” all the characters experience a brutal war that makes each of them struggle albeit in different ways. Each of them have their own anxieties and rage that eventually makes them grow as characters at the end of the book. Steven Galloway’s novel “The Cellist of Sarajevo” exemplifies that when an individual goes through a difficult circumstance they will often struggle because of the anger and fear they have manifested over time. The conflict that the individual faces will force them to reinforce and strengthen their identity in order to survive.
perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short, simple sentence is followed by another , relating each in an easy flow of thoughts. Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again emphasize the childish perception of life’s greatest tragedies. For example, Gibbons uses the simple diction and stream of consciousness as Ellen searches herself for the true person she is. Gibbons uses this to show the reader how Ellen is an average girl who enjoys all of the things normal children relish and to contrast the naive lucidity of the sentences to the depth of the conceptions which Ellen has such a simplistic way of explaining.
In this book everyone knew what was going on, but nobody wanted to say anything. They knew what was going on but did nothing to prevent it. The reader on the other hand doesn’t know what is happening and only learning piece by piece each chapter. Not knowing what’s going on is tortuous for the reader but makes them want more, so they keep reading.
The author uses short, simple sentences that manage to say a lot in a few words. The author also uses imagery. He also puts in his book references to historical events. These references increase the understanding and appreciation of Billy's story by suggesting historical and literary parallels to the personal events in his life. The novel does not have smooth transitions from one event to the next.
In contrast, syntax provides a new perspective to the narrator s behavior as sentence structure draws attention to her erratic behavior. By her last entry, the narrator s sentences have become short and simple. Paragraphs 227 through 238 contain few adjectives resulting in limited descriptions yet her short sentences emphasize her actions providing plenty of imagery. The syntax quickly pulls the reader through the end as the narrator reaches an end to her madness.
The story is seen through the innocent eyes of a 13 year old boy called Charlie Bucktin. The first person central point of view helps us to understand Charlie, to identify with him and his attitudes and values and for reader positioning. Silvey uses language conventions such as descriptive language, dialogue, diction, register and imagery to construct Charlie’s point of view. Since we only see and know what Charlie does thus this helps us create and certain bond with him as he grows, learns, and faces new problems throughout the novel. The fact that Charlie is a teenager and the readers are provided with teenager reactions the teenager audience is able to identify with the character and why he does things that way. Charlie starts of as a the model son, ever the obedient never to do anything wrong… to eventually losing his innocence and naivety and having a better understanding of what is right and what is wrong.
The novel, presented as a series of disjointed, possibly problematic, narrative frames, attempts to draw attention to this fact. "...no word exists alone, and the reason for choosing each word had to be explained with a stor...
In addition to vocabulary, Poe’s use of repetition ensures that his audience will appreciate the deeper meaning of his writing and understand which concepts are important in his stories. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator, after stating that he is not insane, goes on to describe “how stealthily, stealthily” (Long) he proceeds when going into of the elderly man and blighting the room with the lantern. The repetition of “stealthily” demonstrates just how sneaky and narrator is, suggesting that he is crazy.
Syntax is another technique used by Golding to further develop the characters. The frequent use of dashes, fragments, and simple sentences remind the reader that although they are encountering a very complex situation, the characters are still simple-minded children. It also shows the characters’ fragmented thoughts and fears. Originally, Ralph was a well-spoken leader, but in this passage, Golding shows he is a scared creature through syntax.
...is story, Hemingway brings the readers back the war and see what it caused to human as well as shows that how the war can change a man's life forever. We think that just people who have been exposed to the war can deeply understand the unfortunates, tolls, and devastates of the war. He also shared and deeply sympathized sorrows of who took part in the war; the soldiers because they were not only put aside the combat, the war also keeps them away from community; people hated them as known they are officers and often shouted " down with officers" as they passing. We have found any blue and mournful tone in this story but we feel something bitter, a bitter sarcasm. As the war passing, the soldiers would not themselves any more, they became another ones; hunting hawks, emotionless. They lost everything that a normal man can have in the life. the war rob all they have.
Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour.” Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Eds. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson, 2010. 261-263. Print.