Climate of the Los Angeles Basin

In “Los Angeles Notebook”, Joan Didion introduces Santa Ana, a dry wind that is characteristic of Los Angeles region. She emphasizes the severity of Santa Ana by depicting the influence it brings to people and the environment. The visit of Santa Ana stirred up people and causes fire, leaving people and the environment vulnerable to such weather. Didion provides details and vignettes that depicts people’s nervous and anxious reactions to underscore how significantly Santa Ana influences Los Angeles

A Windy Night in Los Angeles In her 1968 essay, Los Angeles Notebook, Joan Didion opens her essay with a brief account about the natural phenomenon that is the Santa Ana winds. In her view, the winds are an awesome yet frightening freak of nature; an intangible and inexplicable feeling that passes you once a year. Though science has prevailed with an explanation, the Santa Ana winds are unexplainable. Through her use of diction, selection of detail, and vivid examples, Didion is able to convey her

Joan Didion’s essay, “Los Angeles Notebook,” describes the Santa Ana winds and the negative effects it has on people worldwide. Didion’s use of descriptive imagery, enigmatic tone, and passionate selection of detail helps depict her views on the mysterious Santa Ana winds. Through Didion’s essay of the Santa Ana winds, Didion develops an enigmatic tone through her dicktion and connotation. An example of her tone could be found in line one, paragraph one, “...something uneasy...some unnatural

people to act irritably, erratically and strangely and makes people become greatly unhappy. When describing the winds, Didion paints a somber and gloomy picture. “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air… some unnatural stillness, some tension,” starts the article off with the image of Los Angeles people in a sense of stillness or tense. Didion continues by explaining that the uneasiness is because the Santa Ana winds have arrived. Through the pictures that Didion paints, the reader begins

Joan Didion's Essay "Los Angeles Notebook"      The Santa Ana winds cause people to act more violently or unruly and makes others irritable and unhappy to a great extent. Joan Didion explains to the reader about how the Santa Ana affects human behavior in her essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” Through the use of imagery, diction, and selection of detail Didion expresses her view of the Santa Ana winds.      Didion paints uneasy and somber images when describing the Santa Ana winds. “There is

Santa Ana causing unnatural behaviors In the essay “Los Angeles Notebooks,” written by Joan Didion, she writes about a strange event called the Santa Ana. She explains that the Santa Ana is a wind that causes people to act strangely and when it blows, “deadly” events can happen and that the suicide rate increases. The author, Joan Didion , uses pathos and ethos to argue that Santa Ana influences people’s behavior negatively. Joan Didion uses pathos to argue that Santa Ana causes people to have

Joan Didion’s “Los Angeles Notebook” conveys the effects of the Santa Ana winds, in which it brings out the worst of the city of Los Angeles. Through emotional diction, curios tone, and organized syntax, she delivers this message to readers. The use of emotion-laden diction is seen in her essay. She uses the words “eerie,” “frets,” and “troubled” to describe the effect of the Santa Ana winds. These words all have the connotation of restlessness. By using words that connote restlessness, Didion suggests

Human behavior is often affected by nature, as displayed in “Los Angeles Notebook” by Joan Didion. The author creates a foreboding atmosphere by describing the power of the blustery, dry and warm Santa Ana winds of Los Angeles (UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences). Through the use of figurative language, diction, and imagery, Didion argues that winds trigger unusual behavior in people. Through the use of figurative language, Didion conveys the ominousness of the Santa Ana winds. She explains

There are some things in life that we consider to be mysterious and puzzling. While most things would mainly influence our thoughts––like aliens, space, afterlife, etc.––the Santa Winds of Los Angeles affect the residents both mentally and physically. In Joan Didion's essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” the Santa Ana winds are characterized as ominous and unpredictable. Didion uses detailed visual and auditory imagery, careful yet gloomy choice of diction, and sets a sinister mood with the tone in order

In Joan Didion’s essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” she uses multiple rhetorical devices to shift a reader from tension, to urgency, and finally to manifestation in order to convey that supernatural elements and their repercussions have the ability to influence an individual’s actions and emotions. Primarily, Joan Didion introduces the reader to an aura of tension in her essay - using foreboding, apprehensive diction and short syntax - representing how the winds affect the people they touch, even before