The tone of The 5th Wave switches through the book, due to the different perspectives, but it is mainly suspenseful and on-edge. Cassie is on the run and putting everything she has into survival, so her tone is oven stressful and apprehensive. Where as the tones from Ben and Sammy are more serious, they are fighting and surviving Camp Haven, make their tone more anxious. This story has good imagery, but it could be better. I could clearly picture all the settings, like the camps, Evan's house, Cassie's house, etc. The characters were also described with detail and throughout the entire novel I can picture the fight for survival and everything I need to see, so I think the imagery was well done. I feel that this book had very good diction. The
Police corruption is a practice of illegal and unprofessional behavior for improper reason to achieve approved goals by their officers. “The Seven Five,” documentary looks at police misconduct at Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct during the 1980s. The documentary turns into a narrative feature combined of interviews with key investigators, Michael Dowd, and Adam Diaz a deported Dominican drug dealer. Police Officer Michael Dowd explained his rogue activities during his assignment at rid the City of narcotics traffickers. Instead, he enlisted the services of other officers who began robbing drug dealers of their money, drugs or guns, or going into business with them to distribute narcotic and weapons. Dowd identified his formative years at the Department as laying the groundwork for his corrupt
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
The tone of the first chapter of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a mixture of candid and matter of fact, with an underlying tone of indifference and detachment. This tone is displayed throughout the chapter with Vonnegut’s use of informal language and phrases, such as the first sentence “All this happened, more or less.” He conveys this tone not only through phrases such as “and so on” or “so it goes”, but with stylistic elements with his use of punctuation, spaces, repetition, and ellipses. He uses this tone in the first chapter to set the audience up for how the rest of the novel will be written, and to display to the audience his style of writing and how it may not always be reliable.
The things this reader likes about this book is that it was interesting in the fact that it had real stories from real veterans in the war. Some of the stories were explained in gruesome detail in which this reader thought was very disturbing. It is disgusting to know what happened to some of the Vietnamese and veterans during that war. What this reader also liked was how they explained the war while showing the opinions of some of the veterans. The least thing this reader liked about this book was that it didn’t keep you on the edge. Even though this was a war story it didn’t captivate me as much as I would have wanted it to. It became boring at parts when they explained how the war started and how the Chinese were trying to take control of Vietnam. What the author should have done was explain the war with minimum detail and have many comments from the people who were actually involved in it.
Now, earlier when I said that the layout was a little strange, what I meant was the way the book was sectioned off into three separate turns of Point of View. The first section of the book is told entirely from Dave’s perspective, which I did enjoy. The second half of the book is then told from Julia’s point of view, and reading her thoughts made me sympathize with her more than seeing her through Dave’s perspective – which, sadly, made me want to rip her hair out. The third section, and this is where I got slightly confused, is told through a combination of both Dave and Julia’s voices. One thing I do have to say about this format, though, is that even though I did not partially warm up to it – it was smart. When the book starts off both Dave and Julia are the same person, and I think that giving each of them a section to go through some sort of character arc before switching to where they have dual narration gave
The 5th Wave follows two main characters, Cassie and Ben, and two supporting characters, Sammy and The Silencer. It starts with Cassie's point of view on the alien infringement; she calls them The Others. There were five waves of the alien attack. The first wave was an electric shock sent out at 11 a.m. that killed a half million people. The second wave was more complicated; The Others dropped a gigantic metal rod on a fault line causing anyone who lives sixty miles of any fault to explode. There goes 40 percent of the population. The third wave was a disease carried by bird to make one bleed out. Cassie's father estimated that 97 percent of the world was dead with only the immune left to survive. The fourth wave was knowing to trust no one. The fifth wave? Well, everyone might just figure that out a little too late.
A normal novel has smooth transition. Vonnegut wrote this book without any smooth transition. This novel is very complicated. The topics that are mention are hard to understand. The book was a bit difficult to follow. Slaughter House-Five's character's needs more depth. More description is necessary. There was too much jumping around in time in Billy’s life. I thought that this book was going to be better than it actually was.
...to enjoy in this comic style book. The passage of time is not necessarily well defined in this book, it seems to go really fast and then really slow. For me that aspect is somewhat annoying. The less traditional reader will enjoy the comic book style used here where the pictures are in many instances more important than the actual words which appear in thought bubbles on the page. The plot is not necessarily extremely obvious, but I find that, at least in my opinion, most comic books don’t really have much of a plot. I think the authors did a good job of staying true to the style of writing intended for this publication and the dialogue seemed completely in line with the cartoon characters. I am not a fan of comics, this book didn’t really change that for me, but I think that it is an overall good piece of literature for those who enjoy this style of writing.
...ies or extracurricular activities, the kind of competition that Lia and Cassie undertook was something I could relate to, though it may not be as extreme. Furthermore, I liked how the author didn’t show or tell in this book. She used the strikethrough feature to allow the readers to infer both the outer and inner meaning that the characters may represent. For example, to introduce Emma, Lia’s stepsister, the author stated “My stepsister, Emma…” (Anderson 3). This feature was very distinctive to the author’s style, something I have never seen before.
This book has great balances of love interests, actions, and internal conflict with characters. It has an interesting story so far with new pieces coming up every few chapters that are very important. Like Al attacking Tris, Eric talking about Divergents and how the rebels must be eliminated. Tris and Four are developing feelings for each other, which I find weird because he is basically her teacher. They are only two years apart, so the relationship is not that awkward. In this journal I will be predicting, evaluating, and questioning.
Slaughter House-Five is one of the worlds greatest anti-war books. It shows the value of contemplation, but not doting, and the value of the past as something that enriches the present and future. It is at heart a true adventure story. However, there are things that I have observed that the book also possesses. PTSD could play a major role in what Bill Pilgrim the protagonist of the novel is experiencing. The history of the book plays an extensive part due to the fact that Vonnegut discusses the bombing of Dresden, Germany and his experiences with World War II. The Book also shows the beginning of postmodernism and the sense of distrust for ideologies and theories.
Over the course of Japanese history, arguably, no artist is more famous for their works than Katsushika Hokusai. During his 88 years of life, he produced over 30,000 pieces of artwork, and heavily influenced Western styles of art. His most famous piece was created around 1831, a Japanese styled piece titled, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. This piece has stood as a defining piece of artwork in the Japanese culture for over 180 years, analyzed by students and authors for the interpretations filling the paper. The relationship between Hokusai’s painting has directly affected the Western point of view of Japanese style. The English author, Herbert Read’s novel interprets the painting distinctly differently from a Japanese point, American poet,
Most people do not believe aliens exist, although some people believe they do. In Stephen Hawking’s article about aliens, he expresses that it would be cool to have another species out there in the universe. Hawking’s tries to figure this out by doing research and performing experiments. He keeps working and trying his best even when tough times come. In The 5th Wave, by Rick Yancey, the main character Cassie, experiences a tough journey fighting aliens. Cassie has to fight aliens to get her brother back, when she does there is even more struggles that she runs into. These struggles will not stop Cassie, she is tough, firm and a hard worker. She will not let her brother get taken from her again. In conclusion, the Author’s purpose, conflict,
In the story After 20 Years, the author conveys a credible message on friendship. The two friends, Bob and Jimmy, were childhood companions. Eventually, they realized that they would part ways, and, most likely, not see each other anymore. They made a deal that in twenty years exactly, they would meet at the 'Big Joe' Brady's restaurant at ten-o-clock. That was the exact date and time that they had departed. As Bob is telling the police man this story, he doesn't know that he is actually under arrest. Then, who Bob thinks is Jimmy, finally shows up and they start to talk about their lives and what has been going on. However, the man Bob is talking to is not Jimmy, but he is actually a police man. After Bob realizes this, he also realizes that
Jack Finney’s The Third Level is the story of Charley’s adventures on the hidden third level of Grand Central Station. No one believes that there is a third level, so Charley talks to Sam, a phsyciatrist friend of his, to try and understand what happened to him. His friend believes that he imagined the third level as a way to deal with the troubles of normal life. Charley talks about how one night as he was trying to take the subway to get home to his wife he got lost and found himself on the third level. The third level looks much like the second, except its smaller and everyone and everything look to be out of the year 1890. Charley discovers that he is now in the year 1894. He decides to buy tickets to Galesburg, Illinois, but when he tries to pay for the tickets they won’t accept his money, as it is from the future and looks