A Primer For The Punctuation Of Heart Disease

In the story “Marigolds,” the author, Eugenia Collier, uses voice elements to support the poignant tone of the story. In the story, Collier includes a metaphor that evokes a feeling of sadness when her father cried. Lizabeth heard “[her] father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child,” (Collier 404). This reveals that Lizabeth’s father is the strong foundation that built the family and gave it confidence, love, encouragement, and a role model. Although was the foundation of the family, his wife worked every day making her the breadwinner. The metaphor eventually destroys Lizabeth confidence because her dad is crying and that gives her insecurities that something is going wrong. This relates to the poignant tone because the metaphor evokes the feeling of sadness.

In “Speak”, a teacher “growled” at Melinda meaning he was not feeling too “fondly” of her, which Melinda interpreted as him suffering from “post-traumatic stress disorder”. The teacher seemed alarming and angry. Melinda took this as him being ill and traumatized. In “Wintergirls” Lia enters towards the “air seeping” from her dead friends hotel room, which causes her heart to “slam” and “crack” in its bone cage. Lia could not bare being in her best friends murder location. She immediately feels the devastation of her feelings. The authors diction helped shape how or why certain events took place and why the outcome happened as it

“I don’t feel so well” Jan’s father had suddenly said one morning at breakfast. Her father, a World War II veteran, stood up and went to go lie down. The rest of the

Communication Edwidge Danticat’s remarkable book, Brother, I’m Dying, engages the audience on a sensational journey on experiencing death in its most sporadic state, but like a Phoenix, life is restored through the next generation of their family. Danticat deals with her communication barriers through understanding her father’s undertones, translating for her uncle, and writing for herself. These coping methods make her writing style unique, but more importantly credible. Edwidge spent the majority of her youth deciphering her father’s emotions out of the letters he sent. His living in America and the children in Haiti created and uneasy and limited communication between them.

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two stories that reveal the consequences of individual suffering. These consequences include estranging relationships, bitter behavior, and even illness, addiction, or death. Throughout each of these stories, Sonny and John’s wife, known as the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, continue to suffer due to John’s and Sonny’s brother’s, known as the narrator of “Sonny’s Blues”, failure to meet obligations and familial compassion. Neither the narrator in “Sonny’s Blues” nor the husband, John, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” serve as the villains of the stories, however, I believe we are able to see how both their inabilities to effectively

The young sisters, who know little about their father’s suffering, make fun of the hole without knowing the consequence of their action. The father is unable to intervene on his daughters’ behalf, as he sits there “face paled.” (40), till the mother orders the children to keep quiet. Apparently, his role in the family structure prevents him from expressing his emotion directly to his children. Nevertheless, after a visit to the doctor, it turns out that the father’s internal organs are intact despite their state of severe deformation, which shows the father’s incredible determination to remain functional in his family role after his tragic loss. Ironically, the doctors “pronounced him in great health” (41), which implies that apparent defects in mental health could be suppressed by the father’s unwillingness to challenge his image as a man, thus they are not easily detectable. The father’s behavioral patterns after his father’s death are in accordance to many stereotypical views of men.

The sheer absence of any verbal exchange between the family members in no way diluted the message and its meaning. As if reading each other’s minds, they all sensed the unthinkable was about to become their agonizing reality.

Claudia expresses again and again how marginalized she and her sister perceived themselves to be, "Adults do not talk to us - they give us directions" (10). When Claudia thinks back to a childhood illness she suffered, she remembers her mother's irritation at finding her sick in bed. Claudia questions the reliability of her perceptions of pain and confusion, "But was it really like that? As painful as I remember? Only mildly. Love...eased up into that cracked window" (12). Claudia's mother's irritation is tempered with compassion; she coats Claudia's phlegmy chest with salve and "hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the

In the baffling tales of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “My Last Duchess,” the narrators give in-depth descriptions about the characters and their surroundings. The central theme in these tales comes frightfully alive early on in the stories, but still manages to produce a dramatic ending in every tale. In each of these three first-person narratives, the narrator’s motivation to tell the tale influences the credibility of the story, which makes the narrator’s point of view, credibility, and motives, surreal to the reader.

Perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of writing fiction is figuring out how to write dialogue with vivid subtext. The character’s words must have different layers to them: what they are actually saying, what they are trying to say, and why they are saying it. People very rarely speak without intention, even if they themselves are not consciously aware of what that intention is. Maile Meloy’s collection of short stories titled Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It is filled with rich dialogue that drives the story forward and delivers information in a natural and deliberate way. One specific story that demonstrates this well is “O Tannenbaum,” where what is being said very rarely coincides with what the characters are actually thinking,

The passage is written in first-person narrative, providing the reader with meaningful insights from the boy who has lost his mother. The author makes use of varying sentence styles. Simple sentences are used to merely narrate the event - ‘Mr. Chin was shouting instructions. Mrs. Chin called my name.’ These simple sentences help maintain a slow pace of the text, and create a dull tone to commemorate the death. Some sentences like the ones in Lines 3-5 are fragmented, revealing the incident one step at a time.

My analysis of this story makes me come to the conclusion that the author intended this piece to be the story of a repressive medical treatment forced on the narrator by the narrator’s husband. Another very real theme this revolves around is the very clear negative side effects of the forced treatment the narrator has to undergo and how it worsens her condition.

Ostensibly the essay begins with attempting to simplify writing dialogue, assigning punctuation to silences, changes in intonation, and other elements of conversation. Foer's task becomes more intricate when he begins appointing punctuation to represent meaning. By the end of the essay, the punctuation has made reading the dialogue more complicated than simple. But one realizes how complicated human communication is. Amidst his classification of punctuation, Foer uses more conventionally written pieces of prose (explaining the "Heart Disease" portion of the title) that effectively convey the emotions his punctuation intends to express.

Late night phone calls never end well, and this one was no exception. My mom answered the shrill ring of the landline early one Wednesday morning and was greeted by her sisters solemn voice. Aunt Mary told her that their mother wasn’t able to swallow food anymore; an obvious problem that had all the more meaning to her. Barely a month before, grandma’s sister, my Great Aunt Maureen, after a long period of declining health, quickly passed away after loosing her ability to swallow. It seemed that grandma would follow her sister’s example. Mom hung up the phone, the weight of the world settling around her shoulders, and booked a flight for the small Irish town she grew up in.

Both my parents burst through the doors, looking slightly concerned. “Mehak, why are you screaming?” My mom questioned. My eyes started to get watery, thinking of all the terrible possibilities, and I got a feeling in my gut that something was wrong. “Grandpa... H-he...w-were t-talking a-and h-he started c-coughing a-and the l-line w-went d-dead.” I stuttered, not knowing what to think. My dad flew out of the room, probably to contact my grandma about what was going on.