However, William Golding does not dwell on them strictly separately. Instead, he uses both imagery and actions to suggest hidden aspects of personalities, relationships and severe surroundings. The strongest and the most outstanding illustration of a visual imagery done by Golding in the passage is a description of a fire and a children reaction to it. The fire starts from ‘rising here and there among the creepers’ and then ‘scrambles up like a bright squirrel’, jumping from one tree to another, than it creep towards the sea ‘as a jaguar creeps on its belly’. This animalistic metaphor used by the author describes a process of fire growing from a rather small and fast squirrel to a furious and ruthless jaguar.
A kindergarten boy who saw people falling in flames told his teacher that the birds were on fire. She ran with him on her shoulders out of the ashes. Tiffany Keeling saw fireballs falling that she later realized were people. Jennifer Griffin saw people falling and wept as she told the story. Niko Winstral saw people free-falling backwards with their hands out, as if they were parachuting.
The writer provides vivid details and conveys emotions when sketching the characters (e.g. “Arliss’ tears made dark splotches in the dust that covered them”) or the dangers (e.g. the wild hogs “roaring and popping their teeth, cutting high and fast with gleaming white tushes that they keep whetted to the sharpness of knife points”). Such descriptive writing draws me into Travis’ world. The third reason for choosing this book is its many twists and turns.
When one of the children is killed the conch also gets destroyed “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (Golding 181). When this murder is made and innocence is abolished the conch’s authority also vanishes, we can see the use of symbols to represent dramatic situations. In Lee’s novel the mockingbird is used as symbol of innocence. “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird” (Lee 90). As mockingbirds don’t do a thing that harms others it is used as a symbol for innocent people “‘Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?’” (Lee 276).
(They poured fire on us from the sky) They poured fire is a novel that not only gets you emotionally involved in the struggle, but the tension as well In which means of survival. Imagery and emotional appeal are used throughout the whole story.It tells of young boys escaping refugee camps, and starting a life of there own. It's a heart wrenching novel inside and out. Many rhetorical devices are used throughout the story. The first rhetorical device I noticed in the novel was Imagery.
There are a lot of scenes in The Poisonwood Bible that I could I write about but I think the one the inflicted the strongest reaction out of me is the Red Ant Scene. I was literally on the edge of my seat when reading this and I went through a range of emotions from anger to happiness. This scene shows the reader a lot about all of the characters and how each react to a crisis. To set the scene up for you a little bit. The scene is during the red ant siege on the land.
But in the first chapter, he writes that he “descend[s] to such anthropomorphism” and refers to such descriptions as absurd and ludicrous (24). The author makes no further excuses or explanations for using anthropomorphism. Mammalian qualities are given to the yellow flowers “shivering in the wind” (37). There’s the “puzzled and suspicious” doe with her fawn who are exalted to a god-like status when they are also described as “madonna and child” (39), which is an obvious reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The author makes a small, involuntary movement as he exhales.
In this essay I intend to show how Cormier’s choice of language presents the war throughout the book heroes. Throughout the novel war is seen from two points of view, becoming a hero or a coward. Cormier has used many language devices such as onomatopoeia’s like ‘Boom’ to create more atmosphere about the war so the read can feel more involved like they are actually their at war. Stereotypically war is associated with death and the onomatopoeia ‘Boom’ gives a loud exploding effect which gives the reader an image of bombs exploding. Religious references are made a lot throughout the novel due to Francis’ strong catholic religion “beads on a rosary “is used as they are prayer beads used in devotion.
The story begins on a gloomy day and the introduction of the angel brings an out of the world element into the story. Again the arrival of the spider-woman, a magical non-human also catches the attention of children. While she is a magical creature in looks, the reason for her condition – lack of obedience- is one that all children can relate to. Besides magical realism, the author has also used imagery to make the story vivid. He starts with the descriptions such as “March nights glimmered like powdered light”, “a stew of mud and rotten shellfish”, and continues to hold attention throughout the story by references such as “the back side of his wings was strewn with parasites” and “a whirlwind of chicken dung and lunar dust”.
Take the writer that chooses to write those big bloody super monster thrillers where the bad guy takes chapters upon chapters to kill their prey, opposite of the writer who sits in the park writing a children’s story about puppies and balloons. Everyone who writes basically has something to tell it’s up to the reader to decide if it’s interesting to him or herself. Being able to enjoy what your writing about, being good at communicating your thoughts through your words, having good grammar and punctuation skills and editing helps one in being a good writer. I have recently read Sloppy First Drafts written by Kelly Fineman. (Fineman) in this article Kelly states that you can fix all things in your second draft.