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However, Bechdel's clean, distinctive illustration style with its wry observations and amusing details is fun to read and examine, and drew this reader into her story quickly. Indeed, it's regrettable that this review can only include quotations and not excerpts of Bechdel's drawings. Several delightful and revealing images are included, such as her grandmother chasing a "piss-ant," her early identification with Wednesday Addams, the summer of the locusts, her teenaged diary entries, and several aspects of her own adolescent self-discoveries. One cannot help but identify with Bechdel. However, despite the pain and struggle Bechdel has had facing her father's life and death, the book is neither morose nor depressing.
Sandra appears to be a stereotypical teenager as does Kerry. A prime example of this is at the beginning when he jumps from behind a hedge. This little prank gives the reader the impression of immaturity. Lively describes Mrs Rutter as a sweet stereotypical old lady. Lively calls her a Cottage loaf of a woman.
Author Denise Giardina has great narrative abilities. She can spin a wonderfully coercive and succulent story, as she has done in Storming Heaven. The novel has a beautifully fictitious plot that ties in perfectly with the events surrounding the coal wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain. She really gives the reader an idea of what it might have been like to be a West Virginian during this era. The plot is set up in a way that causes it to be quite interesting to even those who are most loathing of history.
Lastly, the readers may ask, what exactly is the tone in this piece? I feel her tone would be concluded as rather a type of infatuation or admiration. I say this, because Annie is so in awe with everything the eels do. Because she is so infatuated with them, it almost forces the reader to become obsessed with why Dillard is as excited about them as she is. As an author of the excerpt from “Nightwatch”, Annie Dillard wanted to write to her audience as if she were speaking to them face to face, trying to get them to understand without persuading them.
Her use of imagery here is to convey her own image of the region she knows so well, to her reader. This image portrays a sense of glorification, yet another of disappointment and loneliness, because it gives the effect that the Midwest is rather dull and boring to be in. She also describes the women who call this region their home, as blonde, fresh-faced, and Midwestern. This supports the idea that news anchors and movie stars come from this area, suggesting that they acquire a “perfect” image and are highly important or above average. This creates a sense of admiration for the reader, and also shows the pride that Marquart has for the people of her hometown.
Marie de France is a compassionate and silly in her writings. She has so many more poems I want to read and discover. Her style is simple and entertaining. Marie de France is the type of writer who showed that stories teach you lessons and can take you away to a different world. Marie de France’s work can be influential to the writers of the future.
As the readers, we laugh at Josephine but also with her. For example, page 59-63 when Jacob Coote gives Josephine a lift home on his motorbike while Josie is in her best dress. The author describes the Italians as experts on gossip but she describes it in such a way that the readers find it humorous, which links to the theme of culture. Sarcasm is also used throughout the novel, mainly when Josie is talking to her friends. The use of sarcasm amuses readers and also is appropriate because they are teenagers.
When reading the short story, From a Secret Sorrow by Karen Van Der Zee, Faye experiences a sense of love and dissatisfaction. The intensity of the emotions in this story is commonly relatable and predictable, making this story not only powerful but a form of formula fiction as well. The events that occur to Faye, quickly leads the reader to the themes of love, dissatisfaction, and the happy ending that is easily predicted. Although Faye’s conflict is resolved very fast, and typical of a happy modern day romance story, it allows the reader to feel a sense of comfort, Bad things happen to good people, but if you have love there is hope. Faye is a fragile woman who is recovering from a traumatic accident.
When he falls victim to the queen’s treachery, Lanval boasts of his lover’s unmatched beauty. In fact he drives his own coffin nails deeper when adding “So that you may know it plain / Each serving-maid in her domain / The poorest of her household crew / My lady is worth more than you” (295-298). Not only has Lanval rebuffed the Queen’s manipulations, he has publically insulted her. Was he trying to assert his control over the Queen, or was he asserting his desired control over his fairy