Rhetorical Analysis Of The Terror By Junot Diaz

Contrary to the past attempt by elders to protect the youth, which involved scolding without reasoning, these two authors give their reader the naked truth when explaining the realities of this world. This naked truth is displayed when Coates tells his son “…the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements”(71). Coates doesn't avoid telling his son about the injustices that he may face nor does he avoid telling his son how this injustices will be justified. Baldwin illustrates his experience in New Jersey just as straightforward when he says “…I frightened the waitress who shortly appeared…I hated her for her white face and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her fright worthwhile”(593). Baldwin uses powerful statements like “…I would make her fright worthwhile” in order to make sure his readers understand the intensity of this hatred. Both Coates and Baldwin paint vivid pictures with their explicit wording in order to be sure that the reader comprehends just how serious each matter

“I’ve always been afraid of Arthur. Now I get to be afraid of Erik and Arthur.” (Bloor 42) In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the message the reader gains is that fear gives others power.

The author Joelle Charbonneau uses Symbolism in order to reveal what influence fear has on people’s decisions. Fear can cause people to change for better or for

With the use of emotion, Didion is able to describe the horrifying causes the Santa Ana has on human behavior through murders and horrible wind conditions. “On the first day

Malmar McKnight’s frightening story, “The Storm”, weaves a violent storm and murder together to heighten the horrific fears that engulf Janet Willsom. “The Storm” is a combination of Mother Nature, Janet’s emotions, and her heartbreaking dilemmas. The eerie mood is revealed throughout the story. Figurative language helps the reader bring the story to life in his/ her mind. The author’s use of irony is devolved through Janet’s changed perception of the storm.

Jack’s fear shows the reader that not only can someone have an emotional and dangerous response to it, but it can also be used to manipulate someone for his pleasures. As a kid, Jack, feared and hated his father and loved his mother. He feared whenever his psychopathic father would bring and beat his mother in the basement. The tables turned when a deep sense of realization switched into the psyche of his mind, he ended up loving the beatings and craved the cause of fear towards his mother. His innocence is lost and is refined into the mind of a psychopath, “ The knowledge that the father could instil such terror into another human being turned the boy’s fear of him into admiration and he began to emulate him. Soon,

overcome their fears. Through the actions and decisions of the characters the themes of fear and

In the American memoir, Night, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel constructs a story about the horrific events he endured during the Holocaust. In the pages of this memoir, he portrays the life of Eliezer, a child born Jewish. In the later chapters of the book, Eliezer endures the tragic hanging of a pipel who lost his life for not giving up the names of the inmates that worked to sabotage the power plant at Buna, a forced labor camp in Germany. The guards forced Eliezer and his father to walk past the child as he hung from the gallows stuck between life and death. The death of the child signifies the death of Eliezer’s faith. The author used this position in the memoir to signify the end of the main character’s religious views, which makes this the climax of the book. The climax fits into the structure of the memoir at this point by staying consistent in word choice and advancing the plot further. The use of the appeals and tone also ties this scene into the plot. However, each translation utilizes these devices differently. The scholar’s translation focuses on ethos, logos, and a helpless tone. Marion’s translation uses pathos and a bitter tone. Marion’s version more effectively uses the appeals and tone because it conveys more emotion to the reader.

“This experience is much harder, and weirder, to describe than extreme fear or terror, most people know what it is like to be seriously afraid. If they haven’t felt it themselves, they’ve at least seen a movie, or read a book, or talked to a frightened friend – they can at least imagine it. But explaining what I’ve come to call ‘disorganization’ is a different challenge altogether. Consciousness gradually loses its coherence, one’s center gives away. The center cannot hold. The ‘me’ becomes a haze, and the solid center from which one experiences reality breaks up like a bad radio signal. (Saks, p. 13)”

Fear, the feeling of dread, apprehension or impending danger, it is a powerful emotion that most, if not all, feel. As a child fear may be of the dark, or as an elder it may be of death and the unknown after. A fear of something can come at any moment in time. It is easy to become afraid, but the hard part is learning to overcome it. As the main characters of the summer reading novels are put into fearful situations, they must learn to cope with it in order to help them survive their hardships.

The quote sparks empathy in its readers by submerging them into a journey where they possess biological features of a criminal, as viewed by society, only to realize they are traveling on a road of fear. The quote strengthens the theme of fear by portraying the emotions of on lookers and feared individuals, people of color. Fear felt by the strangers who view Staples during an encounter, while the reader looks back into personal experience, is felt throughout the story. Once the reader has identified with the fearful figures, the reader experiences Staples’s fear. While knowing how Staples is perceived in public, fear is felt when he compares himself to a hiker hiking through “bear country.” Society is the bear and fear becomes the bear’s sharp claws and teeth when propaganda inspires the mistreatment of a population according to their

Abner’s constant stiffness and cold demeanor in the boy’s life makes him feel threatened and forced to obey him (Pinion). Faulkner’s words describe the boy’s fear, “a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood” (Faulkner 3).

James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” interweaves his own racial experiences with the ongoing chaos and claustrophobia in Harlem. Following the death of his father, a man “eaten up by paranoia,” the author embarks on an introspective journey, realizing how his identity is shaped by both the traits he inherits from his father and the experiences he has with racist attitudes and violence. Baldwin’s prose is as complex as the concepts he deals with, as he comes to the conclusion that hatred is a choice, not a fact of life.

The protagonist of the novel, Bigger Thomas, is a perfect example on how the white people in the novel cause fear. We first seen Bigger acting out on his fear when he starts to taunt his friend for not wanting to rob a store. Bigger says, “Bigger was afraid of robbing a white man and he knew that Gus was afraid, too. Blum’s store was small and Blum was alone, but Bigger could not think of robbing him without being flanked by his three pals. But even with his pals he was afraid. He had argued all of his pals but one into consenting to the robbery, and toward the lone man who held out he felt a hot hate and fear; he had transferred his fear of the whites to Gus. He hated Gus because he knew that Gus was afraid, as even he was; and he feared Gus because he felt that Gus would consent and then he would be compelled to go through with the robbery. Like a man about to shoot himself and dreading to shoot and yet knowing that he has to shoot and feeling it all at once and powerfully, he watched Gus and waited for him to say yes. But Gus did not speak. Bigger’s teeth clamped so tight that his jaws ached. He edged toward Gus, not looking at Gus, but feeling the presence of Gus over all his body, through him, in and out of him, and hating himself and Gus because he felt it. Then he could not stand it any longer. The hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself. He faced Gus, his eyes red with anger and fear, his fists clenched and held stiffly to his sides ‘You

Díaz makes use of short, choppy sentences – where proper grammatical structure is thrown out the window – to portray