Ocean Vuong Summary

The organization and transitions take away from his actual writing. He jumps from one idea to another and it is not clear what the point is at that specific moment. One example of this is when he jumps from masculinity, to a short paragraph about femininity, then abruptly back to the problems with being a male.

He let the audience have a clearer understanding of what it was like to be in

The writer’s purpose in this excerpt is to entertain the readers. She makes the readers feel interested and want to continuously read more story. She uses many literary and rhetorical devices. First, she uses commas to give specific details. For example, “Dudley squeaked and ran to hide behind his mother, who was crouching, terrified, behind Uncle Vernon.” She also uses onomatopoeias to imitate natural sounds such as “BOOM” and “SMASH!” Imagery is another significant device because she makes the reader imagine what character or any element looks like. For instance, “A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair.” The author influences the reader by the writer’s words and narrative with dialogs.

It is about the pursuit of freedom.” After setting the tone for the essay he

journey he developed a unique and radical point of view upon life encumbering freedom and

The way the story properly delivers itself is by the vivid descriptions and rhetorical devices used by Golding. In this novel, his style of writing focuses on imagery and symbolism. Golding uses imagery constantly throughout the novel to portray his direction for the readers focus. Whether describing the environment where he writes something like, “it was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side, rocks, cliffs, treetops, and a steep slope: forward there, a tamer descent, tree clad, with hints of a pink tail.” (29), or the characters in ways like, “Inside the cloak he was tall, thin, and bony: and his hair was red beneath his black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.” (20), Golding’s descriptions are always straightforward, leaving just enough to the imagination.

Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the

For instance in paragraph 18 it states, “Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly.” Another example of this is when the author states, “Write about winter in the summer.” (Paragraph 4) The use of short and concise sentences gives a sense that what the author is advising can be achieved with ease. Furthermore, the setences are straight forward and not long, so the reader knows exactly what the author wants them to do. In addition to that, the use of action verbs entices readers to follow the advice because the exact action that is needed has been stated by the author. If one knows exactly what they are supposed to do, they are more likely to do it which is what this author has done here. Finally, the use of literary devices contributes to the tone because metaphors are made which give a better understanding to the reader of what the author is asking of them. Specificially, metaphors are used to connect the author’s ideas to familiar

I feel that in almost every scene I was actually there, how well the surroundings were described. I like that he did this because it made the story more interesting. A time when good imagery was used was in this scene; ¨Look it, look it.¨ he said as Norma walked into the tavern. Norma was over 6 feet tall. Well, maybe not 6 feet tall but she was taller than me, taller than everyone in the bar except the basketball players.¨(Alexie). Being the reader, I could imagine a really tall girl walking into a club and being taller than almost everyone. Another good example could be when the narrator described his Saturday; ¨I was sitting in the Powwow Tavern on a Saturday night with my Diet Pepsi and my second-favorite cousin Raymond.¨(Alexie). This helped me keep track of what all the characters were doing, so I could know how they got there instead of characters being brought up out of

Tim O’Brien uses several rhetorical strategies in this story. A strategy that is easily found in the story is imagery. He uses a lot of sensory details to help the reader know what it feels like in a certain situation. “Except for the laughter things were quiet,” (67) and “You hear stuff

Ocean Vuong’s book overall includes a lot of reference to his childhood found throughout almost all of his poems. His books of individual poems can be read together in on long why to piece together relationships in his life and how he grew up in some sense. He is very graphic throughout his poems, such as one, Into the Breach. He starts this piece with a quote from the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, about his motivate, which was super unsettling to start the poem off on. The poem instead dives into keeping pieces of someone you loved close. His poems move across the page, which adds another layer of movement to his words, and breaks which either help with the poems’ flow or purposely disrupt it. Aubade with Burning City was one of my favorites

After distinguishing how society celebrated their patriotic pride, this led to the father to come to the conclusion of what the teachers were discussing on how to represent an American and it was like to be free. Ever since being in the camps, the father felt conflicted on how to implement his Japanese culture along with his American culture. At the camp, he was taught American ideals to show his dedication towards their society. In the process, the father became conflicted on balancing two cultures and overall, led for his freedom to feel limited. Obtaining freedom signifies expressing oneself however they pleased.

His diction was informal which really created a connection between the author and the reader. It almost felt as if you were conversating deeply with someone you knew personally. This also added a very deep emotional aspect to the piece. Next, the author used abstract words such as courage and intuition. Also, abstract subjects such as life, death, and love.

The writing style is very action-oriented. “When she talked English the maid’s face tightened. ‘Come, Signora,’ she said. ‘We must get back inside. You will be wet.’” It is also very colloquial, the sentences are paratactic and short. There is a complete lack of subordinate clauses, which makes the story seem very “staccato” and broken up. Hemmingway uses “The Iceberg Technique;” we only see the tip of the iceberg, the rest we have to interpret.

Another observations about the form of the text is that the author uses very long sentences. There is no period at the end of ideas and that can show a very alert rhythm, like the narrator has to many to say that we won’t stop writing ideas all over again and he won’t let you get a word in. There are ideas interconnected with