Melissa De La Cruz Analysis

The book I read was Esperanza Rising. The author is Pam Muños Ryan. It was published by Scholastic in the year 2000. The cover illustrator is Joe Cepeda. The genre of Esperanza Rising is historical fiction. In total there are 259 pages. The overall theme of Esperanza Rising is perseverance and overcoming hardships.

Imagery means to use figurative language to compare one object to another object. An example that stood out to me was on lines 60-61,” He slid from their grasp like a rotten banana peel” (Rodriguez). I believe that this is an example of imagery because it is making an image in the reader’s mind comparing how his brother fell to a rotten banana peel. Another example that I would like to point out is on line 35, “ this abdomen of land” (Rodriguez). This line contains imagery because the use of the word abdomen is a metaphor and is comparing the middle of the land to the abdomen of a body. These examples helped clarify the statement and convinced me that this poem has

The book focuses mainly on a woman named Celie, who has lived a hard life already when, at the age of 14 she begins

In “Mericans” Sandra Cisneros uses imagery to develop the text’s theme. Imagery is when an author uses visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. In “Mericans” Sandra Cisneros uses imagery multiple times to describe and develop the scene around the narrator. The first example of imagery is “Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead”. Additionally imagery is used again, as it states, “After all that dust and dark, the light from the plaza makes me squinch my eyes like if I just came out of the movies.” The use of imagery creates an visualization of the area around the narrator and how she is reacting to that area.

Imagery is used by many writers and this is when the writer uses visually descriptive or figurative language.

One example of imagery in the text is the sense sound. The author used the sense of sound to create imagery so that the reader can imagine what is going on. The author reports, "He knew his pursuer was coming; He heard the padding sound of feet on the soft earth." This is an example of imagery because Rainsford described what he heard so that the reader could imagine what sound he heard. This is important to the plot line because the main part of the story revolves on not getting found and to stay alive. If he can hear the padding of his pursuers feet than he might lose "the game.'' Therefore the sense of sound is incorporated into the literature to help develop the plot of the

     Finally, imagery is used throughout the story such as the “proximity of God howling beneath the house” which seems to convey a dark image of God. Another example of imagery occurs when Soto burps to “perfume the air.” It gives one a sense that Soto is burping not just let out gas but to give him a sense of relief and

For example, “... did nothing to block the blinding light and searing heat beating down from above. He opened his mouth… and a raw plume of dry warmth shot down his throat, seeming to obliterate any air or moisture in its path.” (94). This displays imagery because it describes how it made Thomas feel. The reader can imagine how bright and how dry it was. Additionally, “It was a wasteland. In front of him, a flat pan of dry and lifeless earth stretched as far as he could see. Not a single tree. Not a bush. No hills or valleys. Just an orange-yellow seat of dust and rocks; wavering currents of heated air boiled on the horizon like steam, floating upward, as if any life out there were melting toward the cloudless and pale blue sky.” (95). This exhibits imagery by describing what the land looked like. It puts a picture in the reader’s mind. To sum up, the imagery in this novel helped understand what the characters

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.

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

Imagery is a rhetorical strategy that is prevalently used in O’brien’s novel to create a close bond between reader and O’brien. The imagery

“When we reached Horsehead Landing, lightning was playing across half the sky and thunder roared out, hiding even the sound of the sea.” This is an example of imagery because it gives us as the readers a detailed explanation of the scenery of what the narrator was seeing. It puts us in the shoes of the narrator , so it helps us to see what the narrator sees which is how the “lightning was playing across half the sky..”. This quote displays the mood of sadness and fear due to the fact that when most people think about storms and thunder/lightning, they think fear or

And then I was sitting in the ruined little garden among the uprooted and ruined flowers”(22). This is an example of imagery because it explains the outcome of what she did and the horrific result event that came from it. During the closing the destruction of marigolds will affect the protagonists attitude. The author wrote, “I stood there awkward and ashamed” (22) this showed her attitude when she realized what a horrible thing she has done which also gave a very good sense of imagery because it paints a picture of how she looked and felt. Finally The narrator used the sentence, “For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that his life is as barren as the dusty yards of our town” (22) to show the imagery of the author's final thoughts which showed a picture of how poor the town

The book became a series with Mind of My Mind in 1977, Wild Seed in 1980, and Clay Ark’s in 1984. In 1979, she had a career breakthrough with the novel, Kindred. I personally enjoy this book because it’s about an African American woman traveling back in time to save her ancestor, a white slave owner. One of her quotes about the novel was truly inspiring,” I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.” In the 1980s, she published the Xenogenesis trilogy. This consisted of Dawn in 1987, Adulthood Rites in 1988, and Imago in 1989. Afterwards, she wrote the Parable series. The two books in it are the Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Talents.

Rain Murphy is the Author of two series “Sinful Saints” and “Deciding Island” Her books are geared toward adults young and old with the sexual passages being implied. It will appeal to lovers of fiction, fantasy, and magical happenings.