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John Lewis '' Walking With The Wind'

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“We need it to steer us all where we deserve to go in the next.” John Lewis writes a short, factual story about one of his childhood experiences titled: ‘Walking With The Wind.’ He relates this event to civil circumstances and social inequalities. His message is that people need to battle the ‘storms’ or arising disaster as a collective instead of individually. Not only will rising above the issue be much easier as a group, the next problem that appears will be more manageable. This essay critiques his use of imagery, vocabulary, sentence structure and voice in regards to how his writing fits the message.
Imagery is a very prominent part of ‘Walking With The Wind’. Examples of some well done imagery within the piece are: “a place of thick, pine forests and white cotton fields” and “-about fifteen of us children were outside my Aunt Seneva’s house, playing in her dirt yard”. While these quotations do not fit well with the theme, the images …show more content…

In ‘Walking With The Wind’, the author often used in long, eloquent sentences as a tool to paint images across the readers mind. An example of this is: “The sky began clouding over, the wind started picking up, lightning flashed in the distance, and suddenly I wasn’t thinking about playing, I was terrified.” Lewis also used long sentences to better convey the metaphore the story inspired. “More than half a century has passed since that day and it has struck me more than once over these many years that our society is not unlike the children in that house, rocked again, again by the winds of one storm or another, the walls around us seeming at times like they might fly apart” is an example of a metaphorical sentence. Short, choppy sentences are usually used to both make a point, and create a rapid, tension filled scene. Examples of this are: “And we did. And we still do, all of us. You and I” and “We were scared. Even Aunt Seneva was scared. And then it got

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