How Does Gary Paulsen Use Descriptive Language In Canyons

¨Figurative language can give shape to the difficult and the painful. It can make visible and ´felt´ that which is invisible and ´unfeelable.´¨ -Mary Oliver. A main character is the most important person in the story, the one that is mainly talked about in the story. There's always a main character in a story, they are always involved in the most importants events. In the story Canyons by Gary Paulsen, the author uses Descriptive language and simile to develop the characters in the story to help the readers understand the two point of views of the main
Characters.

In the story Canyons, one technique the book uses is descriptive language. ¨There was no moon, but enough light came from the stars so that his eyes grew used the darkness he could see the canyons moving up into the sky.¨ The quote is showing descriptive language because it´s describing what Brennan's eyes saw in the sky, he says how the only light that he saw in the sky were the stars, it was dark because the moon was gone, and it was so dark the only thing he saw was the canyons going up to the sky.¨ Dust and sand so thick, they had

. . .¨ This quote is showing a simile because it´s explaining when the rescue team found him it was like when those movies always has a missing person they are looking for and once they find the missing person, everyone acts like nothing happened and the movie ends after they find them. These examples show simile because the quotes are comparing something to something else or it was similar to each other.

In the story canyons it’s showing the two characters point of views, also the author of the book uses simile and descriptive language to help reader understand these two techniques. The book canyons show what a simile is by comparing two things to each other and descriptive language is describing something. The author of the book is showing these two techniques to help the readers understand what is happening during the story and the events that are