Having an identity forms part of a person's character: individuals desire to be distinctive and through writing he or she can achieve that ambition. Writing itself cannot standbyitself to show a person's uniqueness; therefore, style plays a crucial role to enable the author to express his or her thoughts, intentions, and values. The style of an author liberates them to be truly free, writers decided how they will like to convey their message and evoke the clues that will assistance the reader to understand the plot of the story. However, Style represents an opportunity, the extent of style formulating creative thoughts and critical analysis is frankly up to the writer. The author can be a creativity yet complex writer that pushes the reader …show more content…
Throughout the book there are parts that very descriptive and compact with imagery; however, at the same time she includes short sentences that get to the point. The Article "10 Writing Tips from the Masters" states that the writer needs to "Paint a picture" , she obviously poured her dedication and eagerness to share her story with a audience and wanted to assure that the reader would understand by provide additional information to decrease the uncertainties. Roy exhibits the rule of painting a picture through the following," She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull’s wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nut-brown skin. On that skyblue December day, her wild, curly hair had escaped in wisps in the car wind. Her shoulders in her sleeveless sari blouse shone as though they had been polished with a high-wax shoulder polish. Sometimes she was the most beautiful woman that Estha and Rahel had ever seen. And sometimes she wasn’t."(44) The interview " What Can Linguistics Tell Us About Writing Better?" by Gretchen McCulloch report " This idea that there's a correct style for all occasions is a shortcoming of many of the existing style manuals", there is not a standard style but rather a plethora of different and various styles because every person is different. AGWR mentions that sometimes a particular style might target a
Style in literature is essential to create proper perception from the reader. This is equally as important as establishing appropriate tone. For this propose Ethel Wilson compliments such standards in her works “The Fog”, “Hurry, Hurry” and “The Window.” Wilson’s stylistic techniques are unmatched in uniqueness or assessing human nature versus physical nature. In the fore mentioned texts, Ethel Wilson composes her style from elements of symbolism, motif and character development to flourish understanding of the central idea of responsibility in the human mind when hidden behind nature.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
In On Writing’s section titled “On Writing,” Stephen King iterates multiple times, his true feelings for writing by telling his story. The central point that he uses to say that writing is his passion and what he truly feels joy in is how he writes. King at one point says, “When I am writing, it is all the playground…”(King 149), this is the best example of how he translates his feelings. He uses the playground as a metaphor to intensify the joy he gets from writing, as a playground or park is something we can all relate to. It is not just that one quote, but it is also his tone as a whole, rather than being some distanced writer not showing emotion, he creates a tone of a proud father, pushing a child to love what he does, and not to take it for granted. King accomplishes this tone by giving small tips and tricks that he has used over the years, almost as a mentor to give the sense as it is not just a book, but a guide to becoming a better
One of the biggest determinants for the success of a writer is engaging and maintaining the interest of a variety of readers. While there are endless approaches to telling a story, as well as many writing styles, the most effective writings are the ones that successfully impress a diverse audience. The essays Eating Chili Peppers and Conforming to Stand Out: A Look at American Beauty are two different styles of essays that unveil a similar search for self-gratification. While the essays cover different topics and the authors use different writing styles and approaches to engage the reader, they both unveil a similar underlying message of a search for self-gratification.
An authors style defines itself as the way in which the author expresses themselves throughout the piece of literature. They express themselves through their word choice, word order, rhythm, imagery, sentence structure, figurative language, and literary devices. Sandra Cisneros’, “The House on Mango Street”, is a short story encompassing the events and thoughts of an un-named child narrator as they describe their family’s living arrangement. Sandra uses a distinct type of style throughout her writing which fits the short story well. On the other hand, William Carlos Williams’, “The Use of Force”, is a short story about a doctor’s visit to an unusual patients home. The stories have their own distinctive style which is unique to each but, there
One of the best, most valuable aspects of reading multiple works by the same author is getting to know the author as a person. People don't identify with Gregor Samsa; they identify with Kafka. Witness the love exhibited by the many fans of Hemingway, a love for both the texts and the drama of the man. It's like that for me with Kurt Vonnegut, but it strikes me that he pulls it off in an entirely different way.
When a writer starts his work, most often than not, they think of ways they can catch their reader’s attention, but more importantly, how to awake emotions within them. They want to stand out from the rest and to do so, they must swim against the social trend that marks a specific society. That will make them significant; the way they write, how they make a reader feel, the specific way they write, and the devotion they have for their work. Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgard Allan Poe influenced significantly the American literary canon with their styles, themes, and forms, making them three important writers in America.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a famous American author "known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction" (Kurt Vonnegut). Although Kurt Vonnegut is most widely known as a science fiction writer, what if his readers knew that he didn't consider himself that at all? He once said he "learned from the reviewer" that he was a science fiction writer. Regardless of what Kurt Vonnegut considers himself, he is one of the most sought-after science fiction writers in history. Plagued by the Great Depression, World War II, the suicide of his mother, and a long list of other dramatic events, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. lead a difficult life. Even though these events sound terrible, it is not unreasonable to call them the core of his literary success.
Even though most works of writing seem to share many characteristics, one quality makes each piece of literature vary from others; who wrote it. Because each author has a specific style of writing, stories are enhanced to a whole new level, as each author makes deliberate choices on how to tell the story. The style of writing the author has could either make or break their piece, as their style has to help set the tone of the writing. In Susan Casey’s book, The Devil’s Teeth, the author uses figurative language and factual examples in her descriptive style to paint a clear picture of events taking place for whoever is reading her book.
What is writing style? I started out thinking that writing style is a personal thing and that all writers have their own style. But, this way of thinking is really just a simple way to answer the question. After more careful thought, I realized that style is actually quite the opposite of personal and original. Style is a form of standardization. As writers, we all follow certain rules and guidelines to make our point. Style is these rules and guidelines.
Language, and thus the written word, is the connective tissue to our collective understanding of each other and our experiences. Conveying those particular experiences is a vulnerable practice, which requires a lot of emotional input from both the writer and the reader. Though each of the following authors is conveying different experiences, they are very real experiences all the same. In writing, that sincerity cannot be feigned. By evoking our emotions an author is capable of recreating their experience in a way that feels as though we are experiencing with them.
Kurt Vonnegut makes use of outrages details in order to portray how absurd the idea of a perfect society is. Vonnegut draws the reader's attention by describing the physical aspects Of Harrison with such words as “Harrison's appearance was Halloween and Hardware” which is simply unthinkable for a fourteen-year-old boy(Vonnegut, pg 38). The society itself is simply appalling from having an announcer that can't even read to having everyone dumbed down to having the mental capacity of a child not only that but they would have people with simply average skills and bring them down so that those who were below average would not feel bad for themselves. Not only this but even then there is no freedom when someone is to put in even a bit of thought
Artistic output is an expression of the creator. What differentiates a man from his fellow inhabitants of the Earth on which they all conduct their practices of life is that man’s experiences. Experience is the dirty, old hand and knife that shapes the big clay sculpture of life. And so, when the creator decides to do what he does best and create, his finished work will be the physical expression of the life his experiences have shaped for him. Kurt Vonnegut, the creator famous for his sarcastic, unapologetic, bleakly humorous writing displayed in such novels as Slaughterhouse- 5, Breakfast of Champions, and short stories such as 2br02b and Harrison Bergeron (works that changed the genres of science fiction and dark humor), is no exception.
“In my estimation a good book first must contain little or no trace of the author unless the author himself is a character. That is, when I read the book I should not feel that someone is telling me the story but t...
Jerome David Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a truly unique novel in terms of writing style. The story is told in a second person narrative style by a character named Holden Caulfield, and is written loosely in a fashion known as 'stream of consciousness writing'.