If I Stay Analysis

She uses word choice such as “screaming around the track side by side…”(145). She uses imagery and synesthesia to allow the reader to use sight and hearing to understand. Hillenbrand also used imagery to tell the reader about Seabiscuit's big victory and the pride his team carried(324). The reader also gets the chance to imagine “Red Pollard watch the sky darken” whilst in the hospital. Hillenbrand's use of imagery allows the reader to become part of the story rather than just reading it.

For example, when Dickens states “The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it. He was quiet and attentive….” on page forty-seven, it causes the reader to visualize what the accused person is seeing as people are staring at him in the courtroom. It also causes the reader to feel and understand the accused person’s emotions and pain as the trial begins due to him understanding that everyone in the court room see him as the guilty

Imagery can be defined as the use of words to create a vivid mental

For example, one of the main characters decides to leave Mexico and go back home to Texas because it is too much chaos to handle. “They sat in the station cafe in the stiff new clothes with the new hats turned upside down on the chairs at either side and they drank coffee until the bus was announced over the speaker. ‘Thats you’ said John Grady. ‘Well’ said Rawlins. ‘I reckon i’ll see you one of these days. You take care.’ yeah you take care”. (page 216). This shows how the author describes the situation by at first putting a slight image in the reader's head but also by describing the situation to help the reader yet again, feel what the main characters are feeling which in this case is sadness.

In video 1 of Go Back to Where You Came From, Darren Hassan (a businessman from Adelaide) is questioning his new host, Wasmi, about the reasons he did not have his documentation. Darren’s original stance was noted that all those coming in the country without documentation should be expatriated (12:38). Furthermore, he alludes that they are intentionally destroying their documents and that their reasons for doing so are immoral. The communication between the two men was dialogic. Wasmi shares that his documents were taken by force and had he refused to comply he would have been killed. He continues to explain that had he not left Iraq, he also would have likely been killed. “Dialogue requires that one know the ground from which one speaks, meet the

When Chris Crutcher decides to use imagery it is often very detailed. He takes the time to describe what these characters are seeing and feeling. Chris wants to make sure that the readers can see every situation, feel the weight of every decision, and feel the pain of the characters. Imagery is a very helpful tool to help Chris’ ideas really jump off the page and into your head. Some of these scenes of imagery include a little girl scrubbing off her skin using a brillo pad, and a character's father

A good example of this happening is when Walter for example, “But she would remember it. “Where’s the what’s-its-name?” she would ask. “Don’t tell me you forgot the what’s-its-name.” A newsboy went by shouting something about the Waterbury trial.” (Thurber). Walter proceeds to playing defendant in his daydream. Him acting out this role demonstrated to us that he was very guilty for forgetting what his wife asked him to get at the store. The transitions happen in a matter of a few words. This causes surprise and excitement in the reader unlike in the movie. In the movie, you can see that Walter is going to have a daydream because he seems to be getting hazy and the visual effects cause a foreshadowing type effect. You can also easily figure out what the dream will be about will be about. For example in the movie, as Walter is on the phone with an eHarmony consultant, the consultant asks him “What interesting things have you done?” in which Walter puts down the phone, the camera zooms in on his eyes, he runs, jumps off a tower into a building where he is saving a kitten from a burning building (Stiller). There is this stark contrast where in the movie one can tell that Walter is going to have his daydream, while in the book it surprises you.

The use of imagery allows the reader to picture the long-lasting emotions gripping the narrator. Being a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience (myLearning), imagery permits the reader to visualize what the narrator is experiencing. One example of imagery is used in line 5 “I'm stone. I'm flesh.” The narrator is using metaphoric and literal imagery describing his body. The reader can visualize the attempt to harden the body against the onslaught of emotion, and the reflection of the vulnerable flesh body in the granite wall. Another example of imagery can be found in lines 22 through 24 “Brushstrokes flash, a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky." Here the realistic memories of war involuntarily flash through the narrator’s mind.

I woke up looking around not knowing what was going on. I looked around realizing that I was in an unknown bed. Panicking at first I tried to find my bearings, but I calmed down quickly as I watched my mother walk into the room.

mental image of the scene. In addition, the second sentence reveals just enough to keep the

“Some ask us why we act the way we act without lookin’ how long they kept us back” From “Rightstarter (Message To A Black Man) By Public Enemy. In the book “If I Grow Up” by Todd Strasser, a boy named DeShawn grows up in the projects. He has to decide whether or not to join join the gangs in and around where he lives. Depending on which one he chooses that choice alone could alter his live forever.

In the book If I Stay, Mia and her family take a holiday road trip to her grandparents’ home one snowy morning. Due to winter road conditions, their father loses control of the car, sending it spinning off the road. The car is wrecked, killing her mother and father instantly. Both her brother and she are rushed to the hospital, fighting for their lives. While in a coma, Mia has several out of body experiences and sees first-hand the impact the accident has on those who are close to her. These experiences involved her being aware of the several visitations she had while in a coma, such as her grandfather, grandmother, and current significant other. In the climax, Mia must decide whether she will continue to fight for

Now in our lives music has been such an enormous impact in our lives. Music has had a vast impact is making someone feel comforted when they are depressed, making someone less insipid and become more exciting, or making them strive for more. Here are some examples how music plays an immense role in our everyday lives.

What if the world that one knows comes to an end? What if one day one wakes up and everything one once knew suddenly changes? “What and if two words as nonthreatening as words come But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'...”(Friedman, Letters To Juliette 2006). “What” and “if” are two words that haunt Mia as she has an out-of-body experience after a terrible car accident. Published in 2009, “If I Stay” is a young adult novel written by Gayle Forman. The story follows as the 17-year-old music talented, Mia Hall experience a car accident that killed her whole family. In a coma, Mia has decision to make that would determine her fate. She has to choose whether she fights for

I jolted awake in fear. I had a dream. A weird dream. A vivid dream. It was full of people shouting and bright flashes of light. It was confusing yet clear, like some part of me understood it. I didn’t know it would be important then but now I know. How? Well, it happened like this…