The historical fiction novel, The Master Puppeteer By Katherine Paterson, Jiro, the main character, decides to take up an opportunity to get food and shelter and and a little bit of money for his starving family. This book takes place in a time of discontent and poverty of the eighteenth century in the japanese city of Osaka. The primary conflict is Jiro trying to get food and money to support his family. When Jiro decides to enter a forbidden room for some privacy to practice his role for the play that was coming up, he finds the sword of the beloved outlaw Saburo, who turns out to be working at the theater. Then Saburo coordinates an attack on the rich by getting the homeless and the poor together to, loot and then burning what's left of …show more content…
For example you can really get a vivid image when Paterson describes Kinshi after he is captured by the patrol, “Just behind isako stood-yes, Jiro was sure, it must be Kinsh, though his posture seemed peculiarly humble for Kinshi. His head was bowed, and a large woven hat, such as the samurai wore for disguise in the pleasure district, covered his features.” (163). This passage is a perfect example of the descriptive detailed write that was used by Paterson in The Master Puppeteer because in this sentence she used so many adjectives that the sentence came to life in my imagination. I think that this is one of paterson’s strengths in her writing, when there is a strength there is a weakness, her writing needed some more action it, I thought it was slow because it was so descriptive that the book would describe something for so long that I would get bored from reading it. There were also Japanese brush paintings throughout the book, this provided me with not only verbal description, but visual description gives the reader two descriptions to form an even more detailed description. Overall I thought that the brush paintings were a very smart way of getting the message through to a reader. I thought that the book was a bit boring but I learned a lot from it and that’s what matters, I would highly recommend reading this book if you want to learn more about Japanese life in the 1800’s, or
Authors use many different types of imagery in order to better portray their point of view to a reader. This imagery can depict many different things and often enhances the reader’s ability to picture what is occurring in a literary work, and therefore is more able to connect to the writing. An example of imagery used to enhance the quality of a story can be found in Leyvik Yehoash’s poem “Lynching.” In this poem, the imagery that repeatably appears is related to the body of the person who was lynched, and the various ways to describe different parts of his person. The repetition of these description serves as a textual echo, and the variation in description over the course of the poem helps to portray the events that occurred and their importance from the author to the reader. The repeated anatomic imagery and vivid description of various body parts is a textual echo used by Leyvik Yehoash and helps make his poem more powerful and effective for the reader and expand on its message about the hardship for African Americans living
what is imagery?, Imagery is the use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures, or images, to stimulate your memory. These memories can be positive or negative which authors use to connect and engage a reader by describing the five sense’s, hearing, taste, touch, smell and sight. By using imagery a author can draw the reader inside a book making him/her feel connected to the character, place, thing or event and to try and make the reader feel or see what the author wants the reader to see. This is achieved in the novel maestro, written by Goldsworthy. The short novel, is divided into seven sections which talks about Paul Crabbe development as a person and as a musician. Each section also unfolds further information about the life and career of Edward Keller. Edward Keller is a Viennese pianist who teaches Paul which is his student. It is written from a journal sporadically kept by Paul in his youth but edited by him as a disillusioned adult, after Keller's death.
Besides bright or dim colors, and fine or rough brush strokes, artists use centralized composition to convey their interpretations in "The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey," "Amercian Gothic," "The Water-Seller," and "The Third of May,1808.”
Starting with visual elements I saw lines, implied depth, and texture. I see lines by him using lines created by an edge. Each line is curved not straight but it works with the piece. By using this he creates the piece to make it whole. He uses many curved lines within the painting I don’t know if there is a straight line in the whole thing. The next element I saw was implied depth. Using linear perspective you can see the mountains but they look smaller than the rest of the piece. They are the vanishing point in the back making it look as if you can walk down and they will get closer and closer to you. The last element that I saw was texture. They talk about Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night having texture through a two- dimensional surface, in which this painting has that similar feel. Van Gogh uses thick brush stokes on his paintings to show his feelings. There is actually a name for this called, Impasto,
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
Chopin had also used imagery a lot. The imagery she uses gives us a look into what the characters look like, and the way that Chopin describes the love life of Edna and how she looks at Robert. “Robert’s voice was not pretentious. It was musical and true.” Chapter XIV page 40.
Steinbeck creates the serene, monotonous, and cozy feeling with his writing style; he uses a combination of elaborate descriptions and diverse syntax when describing a setting to create moods and feelings. The way that sentences are structured and the ways that things are described are the tools an author uses to create a mood or feeling.
Goldman's use of symbolism is ingenious and mad all at once. Reading the book is like going on a rollercoaster you're not completely sure is safe. The symbolism from the interruptions keep you completely grounded while his off the mark characters suck you in to your own imagination. Forcing us all to think is a unique take by author standards considering most authors try to make the reader forget about reality and keep us all in a sort of trance. Goldman does just the opposite and its all fueled by our own creation.
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
One of the literary techniques most prominently featured throughout the passage would be that of imagery. The author takes great care to interweave sentences comparing the traits
The Great Electrical Revolution creates vivid imagery by using descriptive words that engage the reader. An example of such imagery is: “Grandad could only crouch on the democrat, trying to hide from the enormous sky, and whispering hoarsely at Fred to go faster. He’d come four thousand miles to the wide open spaces only to discover he suffered from agoraphobia” (Mitchell 310). Imagery is created by the description of the vast prairie, which helps the reader to imagine the feelings and thoughts that granddad was experiencing. This imagery allows the reader to put themselves into the story, and thus obtain a clearer understanding of what is occurring. It also helps engage the reader by allowing them to relate to what is being said in various different
In this article I chose and read about, two men who were puppeteers (Alfonso Lázaro de la Fuente and Raúl García Pérez) were accused of mentioning terrorism in their street puppet show at a recent carnival celebration. The terrorist group is called ETA and the puppeteers mentioned support to them during their performance with the use of a banner. In addition to the mention of terrorism, the show was quite vulgar depicting scenes of hanging, stabbing, and beating of people. These actions performed raised awareness from spectating parents and led them to call local police and have them arrested. In Spain, if guilty of any form of terrorism you could face four years in prison. Following the imprisonment of the puppeteers, controversy was raised
Her attention to the most miniscule detail and her grand explanations of spaces impacts her writing style and her reader’s reactions. This particularity is seen in this example: “I woke to a room of sunshine. A wispy-thin curtain veiled a multi paned sliding door of glass...The windows needed washing but slid easily apart and I stepped out onto a tilted balcony, a string mop on a hook to the left of me, and a half-missing board where I had planned to put my right foot. The breath went out of me...About 200 feet below was the sea… (151).” The authors account of this event could have been dull and simple as “There was a hole in the floor of the balcony”, but instead she chose to use detail and descriptors to engage the reader to imagine seeing the strange hotel room that almost turned her relaxing morning into a 200 foot
I addition, the painter ability to convince portrays fabric of different types of the marks to make him a great painter. In a dimensional work of art, texture gives a visual sense of how an object depicted would feel in real life if touche...
...hese repeated vertical lines contrast firmly with a horizontal line that divides the canvas almost exactly in half. The background, upper portion of the canvas, seems unchanging and flat, whereas the foreground and middle ground of the painting have a lot of depth to them.