Monuments 14 Ajamy Laybourne Analysis

By choosing strong and well-thought out words, it allows the readers to better pay attention to detail and recollect more material. Influential diction causes the readers to become reeled in and intrigued in the novel. The narrator writes, “You’d fine the high school phenoms running circles around the overweight has-beens, guys who’d effortlessly played above-the-rim years ago now trying to catch their breath and salvage what was left of their once-stylish games” (Moore 44). Using words like ‘phenoms’ and ‘has-beens’ causes the author and the reader to relate. The narrator creates a connection between himself and his audience by using words his readers can understand and empathize with. Wes says, “You’d find the drug dealers there...smelling like a fresh haircut and with gear on that was too fine for sweating in” (Moore 44). Moore uses imagery and tugs at our senses to allow his audience to better picture the situation he is explaining and describing. Imagery, along with strong diction, generates a more engaging novel. The storyteller’s sentence structure varies from short to long. This allows the reader to stay interested and keeps the author’s sentences flowing easily. Wes Moore, the narrator, is guilty of inspiring and influential diction and

Why do the words that authors use in their writing help set the overall atmosphere of the story? In the story, "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything," a young boy named Willie and his cautious mother, who were abandoned by their father, come across a beggar, and Willie grows curious of his character, thus leading him to question him. After a series of encounters, Willie learns that the homeless man was not what he seemed, but a man of wisdom. In the story, “Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed” by Ray Bradbury, a party of humans arrive in Mars and try to build their new lives there after an apocalypse on the Earth. One of the humans, Harry Bittering, is skeptical about Mars and how living there may not be the best idea. In both “Dark They Were,

Words have the power to change the lives of millions, people who take a stand speak for others and fight for what they want. Words have the power to provoke action, calm negative emotions and can inspire change as the following passages will elaborate that words have the power to change people. Events that go into history start with powerful speeches that persuade listeners to fight with them.

A great American mathematician, John W. Tukey, once said “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” This quote relates to stories because the author can use figurative language and descriptive language to paint a picture in the reader’s head. By using these, the author can almost assure the reader that they have the same vision as the author has. In the novel The Pigman by Paul Zindel, many examples of figurative language and descriptive adjectives are present to help the reader envision the story in their minds and to develop characters.

In the article "The Monuments Must Go”, Christian and Christian are writing to the Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, Levar Stoney, as well as the members from the Monument Avenue Commission and requesting them to remove the Confederate statue of Stonewall Jackson along with the rest of the Confederate monuments that lie along Monument Avenue. The authors argue that these monuments in Richmond, Virginia that line up Monument Avenue serve to preserve a racist ideology. Christian and Christian begin their article by initially stating, “We are native Richmonders and also the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. We are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt

For my first word I chose orphan. The word orphan relates to the book The Outsiders, because the main characters of the book are orphans. In the article, a seven year old orphan goes to Disney World with NYPD policemen, and gets a check for five thousand dollars towards him going to college. This reminds me of how in the book, the main characters are celebrated as heroes after being orphans for so long. The police in this story felt like the main characters in The Outsiders that saved some kids from a fire. Also, the fact that he got money towards his education reminds me of how education was really important to

In his book, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer uses several instances of imagery and foreshadowing to improve the audience’s understanding of key details and to keep the audience’s immediate attention. Imagery is mostly used in an artistic sense by most authors, but in Krakauer’s book, he finds a way to include logical appeals in his imagery while also satisfying the audience. Foreshadowing is used in a similar way, and the audience is satisfied through well-written comments and concluding paragraphs. Krakauer’s use of brief instances of imagery and foreshadowing are effective due to their pacifying effects on the audience.

These words also epitomize the writing style that Ha Jin commands so well. His tendency to describe a situation, emotion, or even in detailing an object, is rooted in a simplicity that stays to the point. However this simplicity is deceiving. When taken in as a whole, these straightforward descriptions effectually take on a very extensive

I have gotten into and have finished the book Monument 14; it’s by an outstanding author, named Emmy Laybourne. The book starts off with Dean’s mom telling him he needs to get on the bus. Dean rushes out his door to make sure he gets to the bus on time so that he doesn’t miss it. The bus ride starts off normal then large pieces of hailstones start to fall. The hail starts to destroy cars and ends up causing the bus to get into a remarkable wreck. In this journal, I will be evaluating the character Dean, predicting future events, and connecting mental and personality traits.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

One of my favorite poems is People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. It explores the devastating nature of what it means to be human and the tragedy that, “Not people die but worlds die in them.” I have always been deeply moved by the poem’s sentiment. However, by examining People through the lens of iconicity and also with Michael Burke’s Iconicity and Literary Emotion in mind, I gained a deeper understanding of how Yevtushenko employs iconic devices to underscore and bolster his poem’s emotional effect. This essay will explore a few of those linguistic techniques and how they enhanced my reading of the poem.

Woodturning is the action of shaping wood with a lathe (Webster’s). The lathe is a machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool (Webster 's). While writing my research paper I will research many things such as: different types of woodturning, the education and training it takes to become a woodturner, the salary that one makes with this being a career, the pros and cons of being coming a woodturner, also the tools and techniques to using a lathe.

After reading Isabel Allende's "Two Words" for the first time, I was left up in the air, as I still had questions left to be answered. "A lady selling words, and making a business out of it?", “Is it even possible to create new words?” and “Why would two words have such effect on a person as they do on the Colonel?", were a few of the many questions that never seemed to be answered while reading this short story. When looking back for the second time, the story began to relieve my confusion about the lack of realism in the story. Considering "Two Words" is of the genre "Magic Realism", we must disregard the logic and realism of certain events that drown the story, so we can rationalize the bigger picture that Isabel Allende was trying to

There is a magic that exists in this world. We use it every day, but we tend to overlook it. This magic that I’m talking about is the use of words. Words are very powerful. They can build up nations or tear empires down. The power of words is prevalent in Isabel Allende’s short story, “Two Words.” She is able to convey her message that words have a magical power to them through literary devices. I believe that the strongest of these literary devices is Allende’s use of imagery, specifically imagery that conveys the character’s personalities, the feelings between Belisa Crepusculario and the Colonel, and the sense of mystery behind words.

How can a few words tell a whole story? The author Gabriel García Márquez wrote a short story titled “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children.” While reading the title of the story people tend to start to process and predict what's the story is about before reading it. The title of the story has to be able to tell someone about the story without giving away the suspenseful, intense cliffhangers. When the author picks out the title for their story they put a lot of thought into it, for example, how are they going to make it intriguing, how will it connect to the story and things in the story. In this short story the title gives away a strong important element in the story while still making it a page turner for the readers, even though the readers already know it has to do with an old man with enormous they still read it to gather the rest of the contextual items in the story that fully relate to the title of the story. Marquez’s choice of title for this short story connects directly to the main characters, the historical context of the story, and the contemporary experience the story brings.