The Variation of Sentence Length
And then I couldn’t help it, I made another Chinese joke! Because I said that the popcorn shrimp would be good to take to the movies. And she was quiet and I thought: Oh my God, I did it again, didn’t I? Why do I do that? And I was about to say I was really sorry again when her cell rang and I could tell it was Jack because her whole face got all shimmery.
In “Lemonade” by Aimee Bender, when Louanne made a racist joke, she felt worried because it might have offended her Chinese friend. Since she didn’t intend to hurt her friend, she kept questioning herself about her action. The author expresses the character’s nervousness by using short questions for a short period of time before another event interrupted her
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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.
Short sentences not only express how upset the character was but also shows the strength and power of the speaker. This excerpt is a part of “Patton's Speech to the Third Army.” As the leader of the troops, the speaker uses short and concise sentences. He also adds many pauses, using commas, to make long sentences sound shorter than they actually are. He uses these sentences to show his subordinates the power of himself, the commander, who is an expert on wars and has higher status. Using short sentences, he constantly pumps up listeners’ zeal in order to make them to fight for America. In this situation, if he used long sentences, with a lot of descriptions or background information, his speech would bore the army and wouldn’t express the emotion he
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I feel a power in me. I am Push, Push the bully, God of Neighborhood, its incarnation of envy and jealousy and need. I vie, strive, emulate, compete, a contender in every event there is. I didn’t make myself. I probably can’t save myself, but maybe that’s the only need I don’t have! I taste my lack and that’s how I win – by having nothing to lose. It’s not good enough! I want and I want and I will die wanting, but first I will have something. This time I will have something. I say it aloud. “This time I will have something!” I step toward them. The power makes me dizzy. It is enormous. They feel it. They back
Each of the characters in the book The Lemonade War are different and unique in their own ways. Jessie and Evan are the main characters. Jessie, is math smart. She is a good calculator for money, and will know how much of something she needs to buy. She and
In the article “Beyoncé’s Lemonade as an A+ Essay” by Guy Dixon, he elaborates his stance on how the album clearly presents organized information, inspiring students on how to articulate their essays. First of all, according to Katherine Acheson, Beyoncé’s Lemonade and student essays share the “same clarity and organization of thought...that [one cannot] avoid feeling” (Dixon 1). Initially, students think that a grade-worthy essay would be a paper with pertaining information. However, based on Acheson’s perspective, a more prominent feature of an essay is the empathy the reader develops. Consequently, a text meant for an intended audience would find success in relating to them instead of information with no psychological meaning. Moreover,
His Speech to the Third Army starts off in an almost lighthearted tone, “Men, all this stuff you hear about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of bullshit. Americans love to fight” (1). This general mood is kept throughout Patton's speech, including an excess of profanity. Unlike a formal address to a similarly large audience, Patton's way of speaking and structure of words is akin to that of close friends, or soldiers talking in the barracks. As Patton continues to speak, he frequently brings up the importance of a team and the role a soldier has as unit. Even if you are the lowest on the totem pole, he believed that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If every man did his job with the
In Sandra Cisneros’s “Geraldo No Last Name,” the author uses a brief and economical style through sentence structure and description to create the effect of bluntness. The first way Cisneros conveys this effect is through sentence structure. Cisneros uses short, effective sentences while describing the situation. The style is a very straightforward, having the reader feeling blunt and insensitive. Referring to the text, Cisneros writes, “That’s the story. That’s what she said again and again. Once to the hospital people and twice to the police. No address. No name. Nothing in his pockets. Ain’t it a shame.” This is a prime example, as last sentence, “Ain’t it a shame,” emphasises how much Cisneros does not care for Geraldo, and leaves the
When a war starts only one can come out victories. America as shown over and over again that they can take on anyone and that they aren’t afraid to fight. Like in both world wars America came out victories and showed they could stand and fight. But through their victories they gained a arrogance that they couldn’t be stopped. When America entered the Vietnam war they got a gut check and were shown that they can be stopped. Both the world wars showed everyone that America is a power house and is not a force to reckoned with, but the Vietnam war also showed that even the most powerful can get beat.
When siblings Jessie and Evan (The Lemonade War, 2007, and The Lemonade Crime, 2011) accompany their mother on the time-honored midwinter holiday visit to their grandmother’s home in the mountains, the changes are alarming.
For instance, “Our bodies want to change.” (Pattron 2) is a short sentence that is straight to the point in order to emphasize a statement. The sentence is followed by, “They’re screaming it through their clogged arteries and layers of fat cells” (Pattron 2). Pattron uses long sentences to expand on his ideas introduced by the shorter syntax.
People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.
Spiked Lemonade was a bit of a slow read, but it kept my interest. Sasha and Jag were a match made in heaven. When very proper Southern Bell get with hot bearded stud with a dirty mouth got together, sparks flew. While Sasha stayed proper, Jag’s dirty mouth kept spitting out the hottest dirty words. Instead of Sasha getting mad for the way he talked, she was more turned on that she expected. And when jag and Sasha finally got together, their sex was nothing but hot. As these two falls hard for each other, soul searching also got in the way. This book had me laughing with words that would come out of not only Jag’s mouth, but also his friends Cali and Tango. A fun and sexy read for anyone who is looking for anyone that is looking for a hot
In the movie, Patton, his speech brought on several emotions response for me, ranging from surprise to a surge of energy and pride. These rapid changes in emotions came from his rather unorthodox speech, in which Patton would go from talking as if he were an angry coach, to a proud father. The speech I believe did it’s job in inspiring the men to fight as I attempted to place myself in the shoes of the soldiers about to go off and face the world’s greatest threat, the Axis powers. I believe this inspiration was drawn from several powerful images and points that Patton conveyed to his men throughout the speech. The first being his recollection of childhood, in which the people we looked up to were champions, winners, and that was what U.S. military needed to be. As children we all dream of being a hero one day, somehow saving the day from evil. Patton used this desire to basically say, you have the
Beyonce’s “Lemonade” album gained a lot of praises for its artistic portrayal of various emotions, but it also displayed the pop singer’s twisted understanding of Christianity.
Beyoncé’s Lemonade deep expression of her artistic talents. In my opinion, this is best work to date due to the depth of the project. It only made sense to premiere the visual album on HBO, the king of prestige television. Lemonade on the surface sheds light into the life of Beyoncé, allowing fans to be exposed into her life more than ever. Beyoncé highlights her feeling on the highly-published infidelity of her father and former manager, Matthew Knowles as well as sharing that her husband Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was allegedly doing the same thing as her father. This exposure of Beyoncé captivates the viewer, However, this purely a metaphor for what Lemonade is about. Lemonade is regarding the relationship between the World and the Black woman.
Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade ties nicely into Crenshaw’s article, specifically the beginning of her album when she is discussing her relationship with Jay-Z. In the beginning of the album, there are several images that bring symbolism of female sexuality. The images include women in white with the overlay of trees and water. Beyoncé’s album is a reclamation of violence both physical and sexual. There is a recurring motif of women wearing white with bound hands. This represents the women that have experienced violence and feel as though they are bound in the chains of their gender and their race. The women who are all bound together are all black and they are bound by sleeves tied to each other’s arms. This could symbolize women who feel
“Never mind,” I laughed “Why are you here? You look 16, unless you’re really tall.”
The video begins in black and white with Beyoncé’s soft-spoken voice stating the directions to her grandmother’s fresh squeezed lemonade, while three young girls run out of the house in dresses. The visuals for All Night were captivating as it flashed various images and universal symbols of love and life, personal moments such as wedding videos, pre and post pregnancy footage and of random couples on the streets with footage of various sexual preferences and various colors and creed. This video was the ending to Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed rocky love story turned visual album “Lemonade”. The narration in this video really pulled the visuals to another level as she spoke on almost divorcing her husband of coming up on ten years Sean “Jay-Z” Carter. To want to give their relationship another shot despite the infidelities to make it last a lifetime. This video aims to show that love has its ups and downs but the ups usually will always prevail.