A Comparison OfThe Electric Koolaid Acid Test By Leslie Silke And Ceremony

With regards to style, Draut writes professionally and straightforward. Each paragraph builds off the one prior, offering the reader the most information. Throughout her extract, Draut presents herself as a relatable, “down-to-Earth” author, who doesn’t threaten the reader with excessive knowledge. The targeted audience is high school graduates and young college students. She takes advantage of the reader’s targeted age group for word choice. The

Many interesting stories were told in the Eighteen-forties. Among many, there are “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe. In spite of the fact that these two stories are unique diverse and in contents and background, interestingly, there are some similarities between the two stories. This essay will be explaining some differences of these two stories as well as the similarities of the two stories. This essay will first explain the similarity of how the main characters was depicted and the effect it has on the readers. Secondly, this essay will demonstrate the difference between how the authors give descriptions. Last, this essay will illustrate the authors’ writing style in these two particular stories and how their style made the stories more interesting.

Graff then goes on to establish his ethos in the first few paragraphs while continuing to expand the thoughts and ideas on pathos throughout his essay. He begins to build his community and trust by recognizing his own credentials and sharing his personal background in writing. One of the first things noticed from the footnote about Gerald Graff’s professional career is that he has vast experience in the writing department. He is an English professor at a prestigious university, a past president of the Modern Language Association, and part of the professional association of scholars and teachers of English and other languages (198). But, since his background only assists his argument and does not define it, it is crucial to also look at his word choice, mood, language, and ideology in order to fully claim Graff a credible author.

Everyday we observe people’s contrasting opinions. Whether it be in politics, school, or in one’s personal life, emotions are often a major factor when it comes to expressing one’s ideas. In writing, an audience must be aware this, and decide for themselves if an author is being bias or equally representing all sides to a situation. In both Into the Wild and In Cold Blood, the authors form distinct opinions about their main characters and believe family structure heavily influenced their future.

I always like to think through the author’s essays style of what the author is like. Like Cynthia Ozick, by reading “the shock of teapots” and “The Seam of the snail” I imagine that Cynthia probably is a very romantic and loved life woman. Even though these two essays are both written by her; both essays have similarities in using own experiences, beautiful vocabulary and self reflection. However, they differ from developing sentences structure.

Each story makes use of a very unique tone and form of narration yet these same qualities can be compared to some extent across these essays. The authors utilize different forms of writing to convey their intended focus to the audience. I found each story relative to one another in that they all seemed to touch of the subject of the roles of different genders in our contemporary society maybe even across different cultures.

The narrator’s diction on the page can be described as vain due to the fact he doesn’t need an introduction when the narrator says it is “not really necessary” (4). The narrator’s diction reveals that he has a methodical, stone cold personality that puts the narrator in a more superior position then the human race. Achieving

From what does the self originate? For ages, humans have pondered the nature of their personalities. Several theories have been presented over the years, One implies that a person’s traits are determined at birth and that one’s personality may be ingrained into their very DNA; while another sates that the environment in which the subject is in affects their characteristics far more than any deep-seated traits. This question, as well as many others, are topics that are brought to exhibition in Tom Wolfe’s book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Set in the late 1960’s, Wolfe tells the true story Ken Kesey and his band of followers, the Merry Pranksters, who brought the psychedelic drug movement to the forefront of American culture.

In the poem, "The Race" by Sharon Olds, she conveys an aggravated and an impatient tone. The author portrays this tone through the use of repetition, imagery, and personification. The author as well conveys the tone through her punctuation. Through the use of her repetition it proved that she was worried not being able to reach her father in time and so she repeats the phrase "...

Lunar Park written by Bret Easton Ellis, is a novel about a character who is a famous writer that battles with psychological difficulties. The main character, Bret is a resemblance of the actual author and has the same name. Bret places himself in the novel. He struggles with flashbacks from his childhood that lead him into a risky lifestyle. His wife Jayne, has done her best to tame Bret. His drug use and alcohol abuse only grows. Psychologically the character, Bret is battling many demons from his past. Using a psychological criticism approach is beneficial for this style of writing. This approach is used because it is used in “writing pieces that examines the author and his or her writings” (Barnet, Burto, Cain 1433).

As they try to achieve the American Dream, the characters in this story are highly influenced by culture, politics and activism. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test reports the story of the Merry Pranksters, a group of hippies that started to gather around the American novelist Ken Kesey during the sixties. The cult-like group engaged in various forms of countercultural activity, such as psychedelic experiments which consists of the use of LSD and other dangerous drugs, public performances, and anti-war rallies. Wolfe examines matters of authority, hierarchy, and control through the Pranksters' attitudes towards the conventional structures of society. As a Gonzo journalist, Tom Wolfe presents actual events in a fictionalized form in a way to re-create the experiences for the reader.

This novel, which originally started out to be a novel discussing Ken Kesey’s (author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) life as a fugitive wanted for drug possession living in Mexico, from there developed into this “journal” of Kesey’s band, the Merry Pranksters, and their tripped out adventures. 8) One of the most outstanding features of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the simplicity of it to read. The journal style writing Wolfe used allows the reader to be absorbed into the LSD fantasy world the Pranksters were living in. Also, Wolfe’s meticulous attention to detail adds to this effect and carries out his thesis of re-creating the atmosphere in which these acidheads existed. 9) Although it provides and interesting documentation through the use of journal form writing, Wolfe probably failed English class due to the multitude of fragments and disregarded sentences. (This may have also been a “trippy” effect, too.) Another disappointment is in the author’s note; Wolfe tells how much of the book was written through the use of viewing film. It takes away from the first hand experience developed and slightly challenges the authenticity of the material. But, it’s only a disappointment if you actually read the author’s note. 10) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a must read, but not in lieu of it being a well-developed literary masterpiece.

The storyteller who has so long used his position to speak to the experiences of his audience utters his last words, a declaration of his own pain and suffering at the unavoidable and rapid obsolescence of his craft, and no one hears him. The writer endeavors to tell his story, to write his elegy, and finds his efforts to be utterly lacking in comparison to the alternative, now presumably dead, medium of the spoken word. Yet, the irony of it is that in attempting to make this case for the supremacy of the oral tradition of storytelling, in his novel Solibo Magnificent, Patrick Chamoiseau has created a work of literature that is at once intensely emotional, playfully satirical and almost heartbreaking in its capacity to empathize with the experience

As the story so often goes, I was once required to write, and thus I have been writing (largely under mandate) ever since. Although a Grandmother, who I in my childhood stayed with weekly, spoke chiefly in Spanish, I never learned enough of the language to ever properly forget it. This is a decision I’ve come to deeply regret in light of the book sales of Richard Rodriguez. My writing in adolescence was characterized by its being profoundly uninteresting. The highlight was a highly directed poem concerning the creation of chocolate bars, only a poem in the sense that jury duty is a form legal activism. To be resentful of the nature this sort of writing exercise however would be narcissistic to the point of supposing a person who’s sentience spans only two presidential terms would has had anything unique to say about chocolate bars, allowed the proper poetic license. I came to much prefer reading over writing, as somebody had something to gain in that exchange. As it turns out, writing assignments persisted unabated by the logic of this argument. Eventually becoming dissatisfied with the quantity of anachronisms in English, I would later go on to study the Japanese language over 4 semesters. The highlight of this section of writing was a 12 sentence narrative about a thief boy, written by an American college student at the level of a Japanese elementary school student.

Stylistics are used in writing to set various pieces of literature apart, while also determining the effectiveness said literature has on the reader. The novels Such is My Beloved and By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept both involve the concepts of sex and religion, but are each enjoyed by different groups of readers, Factors that highlight these differences include the point of view which story is told from, the word choice by the author, and the style the novel is written with. Such is My Beloved is enjoyed by more readers due to its following of a traditional form of writing, use of simplistic direct language, and a higher use of personal words and sentences than found in By Grand