The Use Of Diction In The Cruelest Journey

This chapter also illustrates the harsh reality of travel at this time. “All day they rolled slowly along the road, and at night the stopped near water. In the day ancient leaky radiator sent up columns of steam,loose connecting rods hammered and pounded.

The quote delivered by the intelligent and insightful John M Barry states, “To be a scientist requires not only intelligence and curiosity, but passion, patience, creativity, self-sufficiency, and courage” (Barry 5). Scientists endure a great amount of adversity than most people think. They have to retain a wide variety of skills to assist them in different circumstances that form in their laboratory. Scientist need to have persistence, so that when they fail, they will be willing to try again. As well as, acceptance to come to terms with the fact that an experiment turns out the opposite of their theory. In John M Barry’s passage,“The Great Influenza” he utilizes direct diction and powerful punctuation to characterize scientific research.

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne often demonstrates the frailty of humans. Nature is often described as beautiful, while the Puritan society and human nature are viewed in a harsh light. Hawthorne illustrates that human nature is flawed and judgmental through use of figurative language, critical diction, and symbolism.

The use of diction, “Villains” specifically refers to the policemen in the persona’s company, although the persona is the murderer who clearly has portrayed villainous qualities. This ironic accusation is the result of the narrator projecting his lingering guilt onto others, as a method of coping with his emotional trauma. The confusion and inability to distinguish between the policemen and the composer’s villainous actions ultimately concludes the short story by consolidating the persona’s insanity, setting the audience’s mind to rest with the resolution. Through Poe’s storytelling, the audience experiences a dubious journey, which mirrors the nature of insanity.

It is presumed that journeys are uplifting experiences, with the implication that new knowledge and greater insight allow travelers to gain wisdom and solidify a coherent view of the world. Yet, experiences through journeys can result in new knowledge clashing with preconceived beliefs, potentially disabling the traveler’s epistemology. Furthermore, a traveler cannot ignore this conflicting knowledge and return to his prior self at the conclusion of his journey. These themes are explored in Robert Gray’s poems

The use of diction and imagery by William Gibson is how he progresses the story. He uses imagery to describe the setting in great detail. He then uses the setting to continue the plot, or to add something extra to the scene. Such as when he was describing the sky in the beginning, setting the stage for the novel, “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” (1) He does this in a way so, it flows with the story. Not only that, his complex use of diction makes it compelling to read. An example of this is when Case is describing a chip a woman has embedded in her, “a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip.” (8).

“To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around” (Norton). The protagonist, Josan, is the guard of a lighthouse. He can’t escape fear. Instead, he experiences it as he looks out for aversion as the storm approaches. In this excerpt from The First Betrayal, Patricia Bray uses menacing diction and imagery that contrasts light and dark to create a suspenseful mood.

He realised the young naive Chris was not well prepared for his journey, and handed him waterproof boots. Not only this, but Chris’ whole journey was based on impulsive and spontaneous decisions that were not well thought out, whereas Robyn was situated in Alice Springs for two years before she started her journey, preparing and ‘reading books about camels’. Furthermore, Robyn’s journey ended in Wiluna physiologically, and when losing her camels it was the ‘perfect excuse. I could pack my bags and say ‘Oh well, I did my best and go home’’, whereas in stark contrast to Chris’ mindset, he would never let something like this tell him when to end his journey, he was very single-minded. Robyn’s second thought about ‘discussing plans and sipping gins on the verandah with friends, was again another striking difference between herself and Chris, who would never have second thoughts and ultimately would never look back on his

Have you ever been on a journey that seems like you're not learning anything new? When you go on a journey you go through this major epidemic that teaches you about many things. If a man went on a journey to somewhere he has never been before he is learning as he goes. A long journey may be what most people do to find themselves or to put a little spice in their life. That's what salak does in the reading of “600 miles to Timbuktu”. She goes on this long journey on the Niger river located in Timbuktu to have a challenge and do something relentless or something no one has ever done before. She starts from old segougou and makes her journey all the way to Timbuktu. She wanted to be able to do something in her life that's greater than everything

Throughout the entirety of part one of Beloved, we see Sethe struggle with her rememories and circumlocution of those rememories, meaning that the traumatic events in which she has lived have affected her in a way that it circles her mind, such as the day she killed Beloved and tried to kill her other children. However, Sethe avoids her dark past and in chapter 18 Paul D makes the effort for her to realize and to face the reality of her past trauma. The beginning of chapter 18 starts with “SHE WAS crawling already when I got here.” This isn’t the first time readers have seen this, which emphasizes and foreshadows what is to come in this chapter.

The Seafarer Analysis Through carefully selected diction and figurative language, the speaker uses his experience to advise that living a humble, God-fearing life in contrast to his wealthy contemporaries will lead to a rewarding eternal life in heaven. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker describes his conflicts as a sailor which include harsh weather and monotony. Subject to the tossings of the sea and the harsh winter weather, the sailor is merciless to the forces of nature. In addition to physical abuse, the speaker is in a state of constant sadness and boredom, which is only slightly relieved by the “swan’s song or the curlew’s voice”(18-19).

Charles Dickens' novel, Great Expectations is the account of a young boy’s transition into adulthood as Pip, the central character, searches for contentment. Dickens uses Pip, a lower class boy, born into no particular wealth or distinction, he may have lived wholly satisfied with his modest pedigree had it not been for his association with Miss Havisham and consequently Estella. He was very self-centered and loved Estella, so he left all his loved one's who had all been there for him his whole life just to fulfill his own "great expectations" to achieve his own goals. Dickens also utilizes Ms. Havisham, a high class eccentric woman, who was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she seeks revenge on all of mankind. She adopts a beautiful girl named Estella just for her revenge and to break Pip, a man's heart. In the novel, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens utilizes metaphors and negative diction to show how one's narrow-mindedness can prompt the destruction of their objectives and relationships.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.?

“As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else.” -Patrick Rothfuss. In The Devil In The White City Erik Larson inserts the reader in the shoes of two very antonymous characters. Larson’s diction enables him to create vivid pictures and descriptions, so the reader can immerse him/herself in the plot. With John Root, he uses phrases that give background to his past and his positions, but with H.H. Holmes, he allows the representation of a maniacal individual by giving the reader insight into the his sadistic ways. Erik Larson utilizes diction to instill fear, while also adding thought provoking scenarios that leave the reader mystified and pondering the different approaches they would take if put in these deep situational instances.

In Robinson Crusoe and Foe, the role of spoken language, demonstrates the contrasting roles that the character Friday displays, and how Foe’s Friday (2) exerts his overpowering presence without saying a single word. The expected would be that Robinson Crusoe’s Friday (1) would hold more power over his own person because he was given the opportunity to learn English to communicate with Crusoe, however Friday was limited due to Crusoe having the choice of what to teach him. On the other hand, with Friday (2) he neither had the capacity nor interest when Susan tried to teach him to speak, the disinterest was frustrating to Susan and gave more power to Friday because he then obligated her to think and consider how Friday feels, acts, lives and why he does everything he does. With that in mind, Crusoe did not have to consider Friday (1) anything other than a servant because the words he taught Friday were in sole purpose to offer service. The ability to speak or not to speak, for characters like Friday in both novels, discerns how the unspoken can hold this unprecedented influence over the lives of people rather than words.