Analysis Of No Rainbows No Roses

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Sam Freed Freed 1 Terry Mulcaire English 100 September 6, 2010 A Minute to Late In the short essay “No Rainbows, No Roses” by Beverly Dipo, the author uses descriptive writing in order to give the reader a clear, vivid picture of what is happening. In the beginning of the essay, Dipo uses observation descriptions such as “Mrs. Trane lies motionless: the head seems unusually large on a skeleton frame, and except for a few fine wisps of gray hair around the ears, is bald…the skin is dark and yellow and sags loosely around exaggerated long bones”. (Dipo 43) The words such as “motionless”, “skeleton frame”, “fine wisps of gray hair”, and “dark and yellow and sags loosely” provide a clear picture in the reader’s mind as he reads

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