Scorpion Descriptive Language

They strengthen his overall thesis and main idea a lot because he explains everything. For example, when he was telling how Pretty Girl looked when his mom and brother finally got her, he explained “Her hips were bad, which was probably why she was discarded in the first place, and her teeth were worn down. Her eyes were clouded. But they fed her, and gave her water, and bathed her in burnt motor oil, the way my people have been curing the mange for generations.” I could imagine everything he said. For another example, I could visualize the scene where he said, “A month later I pulled into the driveway to see a beautiful white German shepherd standing watch at the front of the house.” I could imagine seeing the white German shepherd. The authors overall details painted a picture of how the dog looked at first compared to how the nurturement from the narrator’s mother and brother helped nourish the dog before he

He uses the brightness of light to show the personalities of the households. The text explains the houses as, “... the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard and where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.” This is demonstrating how little of individuality there is in the people of this city. The author says how it is like walking through a graveyard but there is a little bit of light, perhaps the light is to symbolizing how alive the people are; how joyous it is to live their lives. Compared to a graveyard technically the people are still “living” in this story to where a graveyard people are literally dead. Once they begin to talk about Leonard Mead’s house it explains the amounts of light, “They passed one house on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, but this one particular house had all of the electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the cool darkness.” The author explains his house as bright but the rest on the city dark concluding this overwhelming idea of how different he is, how lively he is, giving an answer about why he was walking and why in the beginning in the story it was saying how he was the only one walking and that he would choose a route to take and endure this path

Initially, the cover and title page of the book both play a key role in the layout of the story. On the cover, the artistic style of the illustration looks like a cartoon and a painting. This style is very realistic because of the situation portrayed on the cover; yet playful at the same time because of its comical vibe. The cover also looks three-dimensional and the author seems to be using a straightforward perspective of art. This idea is led be true because the child, wall, and table with the fishbowl are all facing towards the reader. The title is also as large in font as the child and fish bowl are. This shows that the cover is relatively proportional in both text and pictures.

Bray uses different word choices or diction to convey her mood of. An example is how she describes the weather outside of the light house. In the text it states, “In the dark, every sound was magnified as the rain lashed against the wooden shutters, and the merciless wind sought the cracks in his defenses,” She also describes the light powerfully. The text states, “...powerful beacons that

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

The authors tell the reader that a picture must be interpreted like an essay or piece of writing. The motive and goal of the author or photographer must be figured out.

In the story, “The House of the Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is named Matt. The story takes place in the future around Mexico in a city named Opium. The main problem in the book is Matt is a clone and people do not like clones because clones act weird because they have an injection when they are first made that corrupts their body and makes them do things that humans don’t normally do. But Matt is different, he didn’t get the injection but people still think he is like the other clones, disgusting and brain-dead. The problem is solved when everyone is at a party for an old man named El Patron. He died and is having a party thrown in memory of him and El Patron left a note that told everyone to drink a certain wine but the wine was poisoned. Everyone died except for Matt, his “mother” Celia, his friend Maria, and a few others. Everyone is dead so the few that survived decide to start a new life where no one knows who they really are.

The famous philosopher Plato once said, “You can discover more about a person with an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” But dialogue and figurative language can help the reader understand people, and their surroundings. An hour of play can’t share their deepest secrets and their emotions to bring your fate's together. In The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, the dialogue of her characters and the descriptive language she uses helps show the mood and helps inference more about the book.

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

All throughout this story, Farmer uses descriptive language to make her sentences more detailed to introduce the new scenes, settings, and characters. Some examples of this in The House of the Scorpion are “The room was dark except for a faint, yellow light filtering through the bars of the window.” (Farmer 29). In this example, she uses “faint, yellow light” instead of just saying that there was a light on somewhere, just barely lighting up the room. This allows readers to picture this room that he has to stay in and they can see how he feels. He explains how he never sleeps alone and how the room’s walls are bare. Another example from the text is “Hundreds of stars lay in a bright smear across a velvety, black sky. It was the Milky Way...” (Farmer 25). This example uses “velvety, black sky”. That paints a better picture in the reader’s mind by describing what the sky looked like, instead of just saying that the sky was black. That quote introduces a setting that is calm and relaxing. A “velvety, black sky” sounds so peaceful and beautiful, therefore, makes it relaxing. Both of these quotes are good examples of how she uses descriptive language in the book to introduce a new setting.

Waking up in the early hours of the morning for school sometimes seems like the hardest thing to do, mostly it’s because most of us are not getting enough sleep and getting enough sleep is a biological necessity. Sleep is just as important as the air you breath. Teenagers need on average nine and ¼ hours of sleep per night in order for high performance and brain development but the average amount of sleep for teens is 7 hours or less a night.

Nancy Farmer’s “The House of the Scorpion” demonstrates how the alternative anti-utopian reality may look like. Its central figure, the clone Matt, faces the obstacles and challenges on the way to approaching identity thanks to the society’s atrocities as a consequence of considering him to be an animal. He achieves the significant results in the course of thinking’s development that assists in his acquiring independence from the prejudiced system. Still, in spite of the successful separating far away from the idea of imitating the original’s pattern, the character of Matt does nothing for improving the existing contradictions and unfairnesses as if he were an unthinking copy with no chances for advancement.

aims his focal point at imagery to provide vivid and rich details. Literary devices play a crucial

  In the play, descriptive language teaches the audience more about the surroundings than what the characters are actually saying to one another.  "I've not been in this house--it's more than a year" (6), Mrs. Hale tells the county attorney.  It is a very run down house, and the audience discovers there are no signs of anyone really ever being happy.  The kitchen is dirty, and the women begin to feel uneasy about being in a house where there is nothing but darkness and coldness.  The darkness is to signify how alone and empty Mrs. Wright was feeling while living with her husband.  Mrs. Wright did not feel wanted, and she felt like all hope was lost which the audience recognizes with the help of Mrs. Hale's saying, "...he was a hard man, Mrs. Peters.  Just to pass the time of day with him.  Like a raw wind that gets to the bone" (11).  Mrs. Hale conveys these important details to Mrs. Peters, which proves that the environment in the Wright house was dark and dreary.  The audience can imagine living in house where there is nothing but solitude and misery.  The solemn atmosphere makes the readers start to understand how lonely and depressing living in the house actually was.

These details help reader to go deep inside the place that I experience. In paragraphs I tried my best to describe the place view in detail. For example “Water in the pool is blue as the sky and clean as a crystal” “Deep and rich color Flowers beds along the fence seems to sing a song with the breeze” “Splashing of water onto others seems very interesting and a great fun for children” these lines reflects the scene of pool and what visitors are doing there. “Throwing garbage outside the bins blemishes its beauty and the eye catching view” Also it polluted the clean, refreshing water with a smelly odor” and so