Visit With a Living Writer Journals Braeden Samuel 8 October 2015 Passage 1 “Like the rest of my grandparents’ apartment, the bathroom was pristinely clean. It looked like a pharmacy-- cold white tiles, harsh lights, and dozens of brown plastic bottles lined up along the sink and the window ledge. I liked to examine the bottles one by one, studying their labels. For me, these prescriptions had always represented a mystery: Was sickness a secret? Were some illnesses so awful that they were not even discussed? Maybe these pills kept my grandparents from getting sick in the first place. I took a pill bottle from the window ledge. Removing the white cap, I poured the colorful capsules into my palm-- purple and green. Lighter than I expected, …show more content…
They didn’t tempt me, not really. I wanted a different medicine.”(Klise 41) Love Drugged is a young adult fiction novel written by James Klise. The title itself and the front cover leads the reader to assume the novel will focus on themes of romance. The explicit image of medication on the front would lead a reader to assume that the title is somewhat literal. The book is a realistic piece and is quite easy to read as it is the 1st person narrative of a teenaged boy in high school. The first thing the reader notices about the Klise’s style is that his diction, in this passage, is at an average high school level. He does not use particularly advanced language, but does not exaggerate the “teenage boy” voice. In fact, one might say Klise found the perfect medium to portray the protagonist’s thoughts efficiently and eloquently. Klise uses many adjectives, in fact, most of the objects in the story are paired with a describing word at least once in the passage. He uses an active voice and uses strong verbs to describe Jamie’s activities. Instead of “I liked to look at the labels on the bottles” Klise rephrased it as “I liked to examine the …show more content…
However, in this passage, he has to channel the psyche of a mildly homophobic, middle aged pharmaceutical scientist. As the book is Jamie’s 1st person narrative, this was one of the few longer passages said by another character. Due to this, some of the writing choices he made in the first passage I referenced, contrast those he made in this passage. Firstly, his diction is at an elevated level, which is opposite to his colloquial vocab previously. Unlike the first passage, Klise uses few adjectives to describe the objects and actions. Instead, he uses more functional verbs and precise nouns. For example, Dr. Gamez, the man speaking in this passage, says “Rehomoline, used overtime to treat homosexuality like a chronic condition, will inhibit the homosexual response.”(Klise 83) Language like this is short and to the point. He uses formal diction to reinforce the idea that Dr. Gamez is an intelligent adult with little time to think expressively. In addition, Klise uses imperative sentences like “Lower your voice, please.”(Klise 83) to show that Dr. Gamez is the dominant figure in the passage, as well as declarative sentences such as “And at the same time, the drug will increase masculine characteristics by adding other agents as needed.”(Klise 83) to reiterate that he is confident in his knowledge. Klise’s particular tone in this passage is
means to him. Suddenly, they hear their parents open the door the apartment. His mother checks on Phoebe. Phoebe loans Holden her Christmas money, which makes Holden cry. He gives her his red hunting cap and leaves the building.
They see me, they know. Wherever I walk, their eyes follow me. They see that I am weak. They hear my screams at night, and see me tossing and turning like an animal. Even when I look in water, I see that my eyes look drowsy and tired. There is a huge bump on my right eye. I ruptured a tear duct. I don’t even know when I cry, because I cry so much that I only notice when I stop. But it hurts to cry, the duct ruptures more if I do., but it’s even worse not to cry over my wife. Many of those around me had formed into teams and explored the city. I stayed in my makeshift bed. I had no intention of getting out. I was ready to leave everything when I escaped the city. Or so I thought. I hear people speak of
I believe that at the end of chapter 1 in the book we are meant to feel that Cole is a very mean person. Also that he thinks he is better than everyone and he is superior, the evidence to show this is on page 4 when it states “Still standing on the dock in front of everyone, Cole smirked as he undressed.” This piece of evidence shows that cole thinks he is better than the people because he is smirking as he undresses in front of them. Another piece of evidence to show that cole thinks he is better than everyone is on page 5 and it says “Nothing could be farther from the truth. To cole this was another big game.” This clearly is showing that cole thinks he is better than everyone he takes everything as a game he doesn’t really realize what is
1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).
The purpose of this chapter is to give sort of a background to the novel. It introduces Salem as well as Puritan society and the Custom house. The author's attitude toward his old job and workers is mainly positive, giving descriptions of the groups and people. He puts them in either a mundane or positive light by showing their qualities even if they are strange. An example of this is his description of the General's overwhelming kindness or the President's love of past meals (Hawthorne, 284). Even though they are seen as positive, the author still shows they no longer belong at the Custom house. He states " [they knew] they ought to have given place to younger men" (Hawthorne, 280). He sees them generally as senile and unfit for their jobs, but still as people. Because the author address
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“I know what will make you feel better. Let’s play the happy game,” called the sound of Freddy’s voice.
Paragraph 1 tone : He seems nervous about this trip He says ,“We’ve all been up since midnight, starting our predive checks after a couple of restless hours of sleep, and the whole team is running on adrenaline. These are the roughest conditions I’ve dived in so far on the expedition” The way he says that they’ve been up the whole night doing checks without sleep and how this is one of the roughest conditions he has dived in so far just gives the sense of nervousness if he will make the challenge.
The first time he kisses Ryou, he thinks let me drag you down with me. He's stuck in the liminal stages between self-recrimination and self-adulation, of I tread where none did before, Alexander and Caesar and Napoleon all, and I almost destroyed what I had left of what was mine, and Ryou's responding caress is his consent, proof that he's already there, wherever down may be.
Diction is one of the things staples uses in his story. He uses strong words to show his emotion to his readers. Staples says “Her flight made me feel like an accomplice in tyranny.” (1) He said that because she picked up her pace when she saw him near her and it made him feel like he committed a crime for just being there. He also uses abstract words. Staples says “I was surprised, embarrassed and dismayed all at once.” (1) He uses these
Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1953. In 1970, Tan majored in English at San Jose State, in California. Tan began a carrier as a technical writer after she graduated, at the University of California. However, she changed her writing because she was inspired to write fiction book after reading of Louise Erdrich's novel “Love Medicine”. As a result of this, language has helped Amy Tan in becoming the successful writer she’s today. It helped her express her complete thoughts in a way that everyone who reads, understand. Additionally, the type of language that she uses in her writing makes people take her seriously and as important as everyone else.
Nearly everybody has thought about writing as a career or a hobby, and it’s simple when you really put the time into it because these skills, like creativity are easy improving skills. Most successful journalists have great creativity and writing skills, especially in the current age when journalists are actually writing award-winning novels, like John Sandford, my father’s favorite author and more famously Mark Twain.
Everyone has to grow up eventually, some just tend to take it better more than others, it could be the fear or gaining more responsibility or the fact that getting older means that your parents are too and with your old age comes their time to go, the fear of not being ready or prepared for what life has to offer you and you being on your own to find out
This is the modern, everyday life of many unfortunate people. For People of all ages. You can hear on the news about wives and children and even husbands who were killed in acts of rage and domestic violence. Even though I am unable to relate to this certain passage, I was still touched and I actually felt sympathy for these fictitious characters.
King incorporates a myriad of stylistic devices that shape and develop the theme of the passage in the book. Through the periodic use of rhetorical questions such as,