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The Birthday Short Story

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Throughout the short story, The Birthday, the writer, Samantha Ashenhurst uses the writing tool: Get the name of the dog. To begin with, Samantha begins the story with a descriptive introduction, which gives the reader the ability to visualize the current circumstance’s atmosphere. For instance, the author mentions the specific kind of drink and pizza, the color of the blinds, the exact number of times she pukes, and takes medicine, etc. She describes the background’s setting in details as well. In my opinion, Samantha’s very specific, which portrays how honest she is. This also leads to building the writer’s own distinct voice. Thus, this effectively initiates a connection with the reader psychologically.

To be specific, Samantha mentions, “I swallow the drink in five large gulps. My throat is raw from smoking too much weed last night and the juice soothes and burns.” From my perspective, the writer picks these specific details and word of choice for a few reasons. First, this is an example of how Samantha is precise with the quantity of even a small detail. She mentions the number of gulps she takes, for the reader to picture Samantha’s position, and/or wonder why this occurs. Samantha then ironically explains why the juice soothes, yet burns her throat. That being the case, the author particularly indicates the reason, which is smoking too much weed. Although, the cause is not the best, and she could just add due to smoke; she picks to state the truth. Hence, she

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