A Writer’s Attitude: A tool with many uses
What is with the attitude? This is a question that a reader asks himself or herself when reading a writer’s masterpiece. Readers ask themselves this question because they have no thoughts of the writer’s intentions using attitude in their writings. It takes a short time to analyze what is the attitude of the writer and give our own outputs of what is the writer’s attitude. However, the duration to ponder what are the writer’s intentions when using attitude takes a longer time to think about. One uses attitude differently than other writers.
A writer can use attitude to get their points and message across from their writings. For example, in “McDiculous” by Chuck Klosterman, one line he said in the article was, “The biggest problem with America is people who blame faceless corporate forces instead of accepting accountability for their own lives.” If you look at this quote carefully, you can see signs of when Klosterman shows attitude. When he says, “The biggest problem with America,” it sounds like he is annoyed at people who are blaming fast food corporations for making them overweight when it technically is their own fault to blame. The word ‘biggest’ is evident that Klosterman is frustrated and annoyed. He didn’t have to use the word to describe the problem with America. However, he use the word ‘biggest’ to create an effect to the reader that the problem is real and serious situation. So what is with the attitude? The reason why he uses attitude to vent out his frustration because he is trying to uses his attitude as a message for us to understand. His message to the reader is to understand that people should take responsibility and blame themselves as they chose to eat unhealthy foo...
... middle of paper ...
...o Wylie, he got his message across without turning off the reader. Wylie uses attitude to make the reader agree with his opinions, however that is not the case. Throughout the book, majority of the moments turned off the readers when he is being arrogant and hostile towards his audience. Therefore, that loses the reader’s interest in reading what Wylie has to say.
What’s with the attitude; a question that has multiple answers to. Attitude can be one of a writer’s tools. A writer writes with their attitude because the writer is trying to get a message across. A writer writes with their attitude maybe because to turn off their readers with their passive tone and attitude. A writer’s goal is not to just write endlessly, they use writing tools and skills to write their essays for the readers. Attitude is use differently from different writers with different purposes.
Conroy expresses both negative and positive diction to juxtapose the brutal realities of life with the wonderful possibilities in books. He describes books as “dazzling” and “magnificent”. While conversely describing the parents and school boards as “know-nothing” and “cowardly’, which gives the audience a comparison between the two. Since Conroy uses diction to contrast the positive and negative, the audience sees how banning the books makes the parents and school board look like “teacher haters”. The image of teacher haters appeals to the audience’s emotions. This is how he gains their trust. Conroy also uses “grotesque” to describe the violence in his book about the
“Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of you character.” Writers use stylistic techniques to help the story really be visualized by the read. In “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers the author uses descriptive adjectives and purposeful word choice to develop characters and mood.
Judging a book by its cover is like judging a person by the words that describe him or her. Some of them are accurate, but the physical being of a person can tell you a story untold. In Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes, the reader witnesses what the description of a single character can do to the voice of a piece. Frank’s use of pathos and characterization when it came to Angela, his mother, spoke volumes in his memoir, but when applied to the big screen, her character was amplified. It was then the reader realized that Angela’s true effect and purpose in Frank’s life was to be his main influence.
Ethos is the distinguishing moral character of a writer that instills faith in the audience. Bell Hooks is a well-respected writer and teacher known for her strong opinion and academic background. She establishes her credentials through her personal struggles with the university system and her efforts to maintain her own individuality and background. The reader gains respect for Hooks as she courageously resists the pressure to adapt to her new academic life. For example she says, "It [is] my responsibility to formulate a way of being that [will] allow me to participate fully in my new environment while integrating and maintaining aspects of the old" (hooks 92).
McCarthy wrote the novel in ways that force readers to remove themselves from their comfort zones. He wrote The Road with a lack of punctuation that can make things somewhat confusing for readers. Some critics find that without quotation marks it makes the book hard to follow. But when I read the book I found that after the first fifty pages I understood when the characters were speaking. Finding that I had to pay a little more attention didn’t bother ...
There is a famous expression about three demands of writing fiction. It goes, “Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.” By following these needs, an author can spark interest in his or her work. In the novels The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Rings, the novelists utilize the latter requirement, “Make them wait.” This essay will show how the authors use that specific demand in their novels.
life during the time an author writes a literary work; to find the cause of why it’s written. Arthur
Through this sympathetic faculty, a writer is able to give flesh, authenticity and a genuine perspective to the imagined. It is only in this manner that the goal of creating living beings may be realized. Anything short of this becomes an exercise in image and in Kundera’s words, produces an immoral novel (3). The antithesis of liv... ...
E.K. Hornbeck through his language in “Inherit the Wind” (1955) tries to show the town of Hillsboro the way that their thoughts are harmful and wrong. Hornbeck backs that up by using a sarcastic tone to show them how ridiculous they are being, by using metaphors and similies to give the citizens context from the outside world that they might not always consider due to their closed mindedness, and by using syntax to prove that he is better than them and making himself and his views credible. His purpose is to get the town to change their viewpoint so they can see that they need to move forward with the time. He establishes a superior relationship with his audience of small town people with narrow viewpoints who need to learn to be more accepting.
... represents his ultimate downfall. By the end of the novel, Nelly, the narrator, is well read, even commenting that she ‘could not open a book in the library that [she had] not looked into.’ (ch. 7). She even manages the finances of the house, which, when this book was written would have been strictly a male-only affair. Having previously only taken over the narration from chapter four onwards from Lockwood, who is condescending about local people, again showing a great challenge to male dominance by narrating almost the whole story.
In the story “Two Kinds”, the author, Amy Tan, intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead, she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family issue, the author chooses to write a narrative diary containing her true feeling toward events during her childhood, which offers reader not only a clear account, but insight on how the narrator feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.
'For a text to be appealing, the audience must see the protagonist in conflict.'(respond critically by making close analysis with the text.) To be completed by the first week of the holidays.
During the time-period when they authored this essay, the commonly held notion amongst people was that “In order to judge the poet’s performance, we must know what he intended.”, and this notion led to what is termed the ‘Intentional fallacy’. However, Wimsatt and Beardsley argue that the intention, i.e., the design or plan in the author’s mind, of the author is neither available nor desirable for judging the success of a work of literary art. It is not available because the author will most certainly not be beside the reader when he/she reads the text, and not desirable because intention as mentioned already is nothing but the author’s attitude towards his work, the way he felt while writing the text and what made him write that particular piece of writing and these factors might distract the reader from deciphering the meaning from the text. This method of reading a text without any biographical or historical background of either the poem or the poet practiced by the New Critics was known as ‘Closed Reading’. This stemmed from their belief in the autonomy of the text.
Literary criticism is used as a guideline to help analyze, deconstruct, interpret, or even evaluate literary works. Each type of criticism offers its own methods that help the reader to delve deeper into the text, revealing all of its innermost features. New Criticism portrays how a work is unified, Reader-Response Criticism establishes how the reader reacts to a work, Deconstructive Criticism demonstrates how a work falls apart, Historical Criticism illustrates how the history of the author and the author’s time period influence a text, and last of all, Psychological Criticism expresses how unconscious motivations drive the author in the creation of their work as well as how the reader’s motivations influence their own interpretation of the text (Lynn 139, 191). This creates a deep level of understanding of literature that simply cannot be gained through surface level reading. If not one criticism is beneficial to the reader, then taking all criticisms or a mixture of specific criticisms into consideration might be the best way to approach literary
There are intrinsic and extrinsic criticisms of novels, letters, and poems. Each method offers a different perspective on how the readers interpret each piece. Intrinsic criticism is the process of how readers summarize the main points of the piece. Extrinsic criticism is the background information such as: the time period, the author’s biography, and historical references. Any additional data gathered assists with the analysis of the literary text. Emily Dickinson’s poem The Wife will be analyzed by using these two methods of criticism. An intrinsic reading of the poem will be given, insight on whether extrinsic criticism contributes to the reading of the poem or alters its meaning will be disclosed, and lastly a reflection on the relative merits of both criticisms will be provided.