Both Orwell and Dillard are very good at crafting a story from memory. They both use methods of story telling that engages the reader and makes you want to read more. Orwell carefully uses his words to give you as much feeling and thought as you read his story; where as Dillard writes her story in a way that progresses it with just enough information to keep the story fast and interesting. I believe that I write my stories more in the way Dillard does than Orwell. I usually write a story using minimal information and using just enough atmosphere so that you know what is happening as the story progresses.
In the car, the narrator wishes that she could bottle these memories, so that she could relive them by uncorking the bottle. She is having an amazing time until she asks why he takes her out on these trips and mentions his wife, and her passing away. The atmosphere becomes very silent as the narrator realises that her comment would become an invitation into her old life with
Also consider how you read. Do you, for example, take notes or mark text as you read, or do you simply absorb the material on a page? I am engaged by all genre of reading from fiction to non-fiction. I prefer fictional reading because it is based on the writer imagination or creative pretense and not necessarily facts. I can usually identify with some portion of the story based on my own life experiences.
Mike Carlos Literary devices have a large impact on Beowulf because of the oral tradition. These literary devices create thoughts and help people have more of a thought out idea of what is going on in the poem. The reader’s vision of the story is reflected on how it is said and described Kennings were often used throughout the poem to keep on the old English oral traditions. These kennings helped because the story had to be memorized and told over and over again and it made it easier to remember and to say. Due to the fact that the language of the Angelo-Saxons did not have rhymes, it made it harder to memorize, but these phrases helped people make it easier.
Reading multicultural literature is not merely for pleasure, it is also for knowledge and understanding. The knowledge and understanding gained by reading multicultural literature, if read open mindedly, has the potential to close the cultural gaps many people face and bring the world closer together. Determining what multicultural literature will be most beneficial to read to gain knowledge and understanding can be difficult and tedious. Most important is for the literature to be factual in regards to the culture. Reading about the author should tell the authors culture and from where and what time period he or she is from.
Tess Dorsey 2-3 pg. Essay The Great Gatsby What is it to be a great writer? Is it to simply have a great story…or is there more? To be a truly effective writer or even just a simple story teller; you need substance. A sense of being that will draw the reader or listener in, as if they themselves were in the story, helping them to feel the surroundings of the character within the pages of the book.
It means that the writer should work his or her information from general to specific; and it is true for this essay, because as we can see the general idea, being how people enjoy “mystery stories”, is brought up right in the beginning and then the writer makes his way to the specific, being why he believes Agatha Christie appeals the most by listing his reasons, “strong characters, her interesting settings, and her strong morality.” The body of the essay is well-written. He explores his points in the same order that came in the thesis statement. First, he explains Agatha Christie’s characters in the body paragraph 1; in the second body paragraph, he gives examples of her interesting settings and in the last body paragraph, he gives his opinion on Agatha Christie’s morality. Also, the writer has put enough detail and examples to support each of his points. Lastly the conclusion is well-done.
I considered a good writer to be anyone who could effectively convey a message to a reader. Since going through the first two units, I have learned that good writing is quite a bit more complicated. Author Keith Grant-Davie discussed how important to good writing it was to analyze your subject matter to understand who all of your possible audiences are and who you may be representing when writing your material, and to address all parties appropriately. If an author can do this effectively, I believe that it is a crucial part of becoming a good writer. Unit one also taught me to reevaluate how important certain priorities when it came to writing.
What is reading rhetorically? When you read rhetorically “you engage in this kind of reading, you look for the rhetorical strategies of the writer -- the patterns, structures, figures, & methods that a writer uses in order to make her/his point. This kind of reading can, in turn, help you to strategize your own approach to creating effective texts for particular audiences and purposes” (Malea Powell 1) Thorough out this semester we have reviewed several rhetorical readings. Although in the beginning, I never quite understood what the author was truly trying to say, but now I do. Understanding this form of reading can be very helpful in my future education.
Garrett McCloud Writing and Composition II Professor Dilkes Me as a Reader and writer My experience as a reader and a writer is very interesting. A lot of the times when I write I usually have a very good understanding of what I read and write but sometimes I rush and do not go over what I write. As a reader I would take the insight of the author writings and then try to incorporate or compare it to my life to see how I can relate to it. Try to put it in my on perspective in order to have an idea of what theme should be for that paper. Learning about how the theme of your paper should be related back to in every paragraph is important to the flow of the paper.