The Pretenders Chuck Klosterman Summary

Reading one articles over and over push you to write like the writer. He shows us his own experience said, “When I read Ray Bradbury as a kid, I wrote like Ray Bradbury everything green and wondrous and see through a lens smeared with the grease of nostalgia. When I read James M. Cain, everything I wrote came out clipped and stripped and hard-boiled.”(212)King puts passion in reading and writing, by his teenage ages everything change, and his found his own style. This prove that practice make us perfect, when you have love for one domain and you put hard work, you succeed. We have to learn also that talent it is no enough, for we can see example of his son with saxophone lessons. Time, love, passion joy, determination help us to achieve our

In the memoir On Writing by Stephen King, there are several differences with the structure when compared to fiction novels. First and foremost, considering the memoir is about his writing techniques, King goes into detail about how he engages the audience. He explains what he calls the “toolbox”, which contains the essential resources every writer needs in order to improve their style. A few of his tips include using basic vocabulary you know the audience will relate with, avoiding adverbs at all costs, and avoiding a passive voice in narration. After going through the many tips he had to offer, I realized the difference between the way his words flow together versus other author’s. A strategy King utilizes for engaging the reader is remaining dominant and straight-forward in his words. He mentions that the reader is always the main concern, and making sure they will understand the point is necessary. Another way King connects with the audience is by using his sense of humor. This memoir doesn’t have a formal tone, which is half of what makes it enjoyable. There are several times where he is satirical, sarcastic, and making jokes to keep the reader engaged. With that being said, the overall diction is a balanced mixture between informative and humorous. An additional difference between King’s memoir and fiction novels is the way he is direct with the audience. Considering fiction novels are generally telling stories to the reader, there isn’t a connection with the narrator.

While reading a well written story I am conscious of the atmosphere the author creates through the particular style they choose to use. As a reader, I am able to admire the way in which the writer presents their characters and setting, and be conscious of the overall voice used in their writing. The "voice" used in the writing is often the most obvious aspect of an author's style to detect. The author's "voice" is the way

Every author has a different writing style in comparison. They convey their messages in multiple ways; using different tones to evoke certain moods on their readers. Some authors use a few different ways to catch their audiences attention; persuading them using logic, ethics and emotion.

In Rick Moody’s short story “Boy” his styles of writing was very repetitive, putting emphasis on the word “boy” and the phrase “enter the house” (238). The tone started off as neutral and unbiased, simply stating facts about the boys’ lives. For example, them playing baseball, and borrowing their sister’s Barbie doll, etc. The tone began to soften up as the story slowly became more emotional when the twins found out their sister was diagnosed with cancer.

The two works of Mark Twain are similar in terms of style, syntax, and diction. They both have the same type of formatting in terms of overall writing style, and use the wording to represent how they would speak in that time and use their slang.

The way the writer communicates is through their style. It appeals to the audiences emotions, it can make the message more artistic and memorable.

The world of writing is a vast and thoroughly confusing place, so vast in fact that it could not be navigated without an in-depth navigational chart. This chart is composed of and organized by terms that help us get a clearer picture of what we want to see. These terms are genre, audience, and most importantly rhetorical situation. These terms are all interrelated in which you can’t fully explore without having each one identified. One of the motives why writers delve into themselves, to put pen to paper so to speak is to express their views on a topic.

In “To Read like a Writer” Mike Bunns introduces how writing is “a series of choices” with an account of his past as an employee at a theatre. As he was trying to concentrate on his reading, he had an epiphany that literary works are all “a series of choices”(Bunns 72). He then transitions to his main claim of how reading like a writer allows for the reader to determine whether or not to adopt the same style as the piece that the text may have. He breaks this down into subsections that readers need to observe before they tackle the writing, such as context, genre, and publication. Additionally, he points out the necessity to makes notes while reading the

John Sullivan and Chuck Klosterman are both very skilled and talented journalists, as I have already observed by the few essays that I have read by them. In Sullivan’s “The Final Comeback of Axl Rose,” he is describing his experience at one of Rose's comeback performances in New York with different band members mocking the originals, as well as digging up Axl’s past in Lafayette, Indiana. Klosterman’s piece, “The Pretenders,” isn’t so much about Axl Rose himself, but is focusing on the motivation behind tribute bands, specifically Paradise City, a Guns N’ Roses tribute. Throughout both of these essays, the authors have drastic tone shifts that greatly add to the messages within the pieces.

In the novel night by Elie Wiesel and the poem See it through by Edgar Guest the two author’s tone is different because they feel two different ways when writing. An example of this difference in night is “Yes I did see this with my own

In many respects, writing is most accurate representation we can have of ourselves. There aren't many better ways for a person to express themselves or show off their talents. No two writer writes the same. Like each of us, styles and techniques vary based on who we are. That is why each and every single story is unique in its own way. Many different authors employ different techniques to reach the same ideas. In Truman Capote's book, In Cold Blood, Capote used a completely different writing style than David Cullen uses in his book Columbine. At the same time, their are still similaritie present. Neither style of writing is the “right” way to write. It's just a representation of the author.

Having your own style of writing is better than copying someone else’s way of writing. Writing in a specific format can be frustrating, such as essays because it’s uninteresting when writing the way a paper’s assigned repetitively. A book or paper differs when it comes to social media. Books can captivate the reader but social media fascinates a person who can stay on for hours. On websites, such as Facebook, arguments arouse in the comment section over a video or someone who post a status. Many people interact with each other with vulgar, joyful, and sorrowful comments. This is an example where tones can changes depending on a

Angell’s style of writing added immediacy because he had a way of making you feel like you were right in the moment with him. Here is one of the many quotes that stood out to me allowing me to feel like I was in the moment. “I often took Andy along on my visits – a violation of cemetery rules, I’m sure, but we almost never saw another soul, and in any case he only wanted to rocket about in the vacant fields.

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner were two of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. While they lived during the same period, their writing styles differed drastically. This can be seen in texts such as Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”. Hemingway’s style puts little focus on specific character details, which makes his stories seem like they could be about any person, including the reader, while Faulkner’s style puts a lot of focus on specific character details, which makes every detail and every character seem important to the reader. Both authors have styles indirect to their points, which forces the readers to figure out information on their own and leaves the purposes of texts more open to interpretation.