According to New York Times this “a book matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing” this statement alone says this book fits the qualification of universality of significance to all humanity and all cultures. It is not a book written to where only one group of people would enjoy but a variety of people. The last thing is the inexhaustibility of this novel or the fact that when you reread, you discover something new. I think that each time a reader read this novel they would come across a new idea or meaning. It would take multiple readings to discover even the main idea of this novel.
I usually write a story using minimal information and using just enough atmosphere so that you know what is happening as the story progresses. I felt my writing was similar to Dillard’s because she never lingered on a certain occasion or instance in her story where as Orwell takes a great amount of time to describe most of what is happening in his story. Orwell tries to put you in his shoes as best as he can by telling you everything that is happening, in his mind and his surroundings. I liked the way Annie Dillard handled her essay better than Orwell. To me she used a pacing that kept me wanting to read and get to the ending so that I could see what would finally happen in the end.
A smooth author created sentences and phrases that made strong connections with urban and domestic lifestyles. His sarcasm which he did use often brought laughs to most readers including myself. He wasn’t that common corny author who said stupid things to try to get a giggle or too. He used his intelligence and knowledge of his experiences and created sentences that meant a lot more than what they seemed. He was the streets voice as some said and he brightened us all with a little taste of urban living.
Adam Borjon Professor K. Mitchell English 256 June 1, 2009 Interpretation of a View From the Inside Luis Rodriguez is a very powerful author, his words and books can capture so much in very little time. As a reader, one can experience many different feelings through out the course of his books. These emotions are transferred from his personal experiences, then into his books, then placed into the readers mind in a very creative fashion. Luis Rodriguez is able to maintain this creative appeal with his ability to cross poetry and first hand accounts into a descriptive flowing piece of words. As a reader, it is hard to lose interest because of his ability to entrance the reader into his thoughts.
Each photograph had its unique story and a sad event explained in the text. However, the photographs did not have any depressing impacts on me as a reader. Although the photographs were all new and taken during daytime, the text took the story of the event to a whole different place and the photographer took the photographs in a certain way, to a certain scale to make sure that his reader will make a strong emotional association with the photograph. The places look really normal as something American, the text descriptions was about another story that was left behind when you
“I was entranced with the magical journey that Tom and Huck take, as well as Mark Twain’s brilliant weaving of this timeless tale with all of its indigenous flavor. It never occurred to me that certain words were offensive. They were part of the language norms of the era that the book depicted, and so they seemed natural enough,” said Carol Lucas (source 1). Fact of the matter is that Mark Twain was a lyrical and literary genius in the way he wrote all of his pieces. Mark Twain himself said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” In truth, one word can make a huge difference, and for this reason, Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with every
A Book Of Hilarious Stories: Me Talk Pretty One Day When they say don’t judge a book by its cover, Me Talk Pretty One Day is definitely a book you want to be sure to go by this rule. When picking this book I was really hesitant because the cover looked as if it were going to be uninteresting. Little did I know it would be full of laughter and leave me wanting to read more and more. I loved it! Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is a book of short stories that is separated into two parts.
In the 1920’s Sandburg began one of his most ambitious projects including his study of President Lincoln. Lincoln was an idle to Sandburg and Sandburg admired what he did. Sandburg’s early writings dealt with his belief in social Justice and equality and were written in such a way that they barely resembled what most people thought of as poetry. Sandburg’s early poetry not only tended toward unshaped imitation of real life but also copied other poets as well. Now to think that Sandburg Would steal work from other poets is outrageous, people just don’t know good poetry when they see it.
Writers share the rituals of writing—or not is an article by Geoff Pevere detailing the various rituals shared—and not shared—by an assortment of writers, ranging from poets and novelists, to journalists and cartoonists. I found this article both interesting and entertaining, but, as a writer, also very easy to identify with. According to Pevere, “the [writing] process always involves certain rituals of delay” (1). This “navigation of perpetual inertia” is definitely something that resonates with me as a writer (Pevere 1). For me, starting is always the most challenging and lavishly avoided aspect of writing.
Bruce Dawes Essay Bruce Dawes poems, written in the 1900’s, are very influential pieces, even to this day because the themes and ideas he wrote about have maintained relevancy to a contemporary audience. Dawes poems are largely cynical, he discusses problems that he sees in society. Three concepts which are discussed frequently throughout Dawes’ poetry are the meaninglessness of life, our materialistic lifestyles and the constrictive nature of society. These themes can all be adapted to modern situations and applied to modern people and society. Three of his poems ‘ enter without so much as knocking’, ‘life-cycle’, ‘homecoming’ and ‘’weapons training’ all strongly convey at least one of the above themes in quite similar way.