Natalie Lopatowski
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
16 October 2008
"The one big surprise is that as it turns out, God is the sun. It makes sense, if you think about it. Why didn't we see it
sooner I can not say. Every day the sun was right there burning, our and other planets hovering around it, always apologizing, and we didn't think it was God. Why would there be a God and also a sun? Of course God is the sun. Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know."
This short story appeals to the mood and tone of the words. The diction and tone are energetic, joyful and sweet. But then the dog dies. Just like that. The feeling of the sound and speed of the words are concocted for the voice of the dog, in the first person perspective, but also manages to convey what it might feel like to be a dog through diction and imagery. At the end, Eggers chose to have the dog give the last words to his book and on the meaning of life.
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Natalie Lopatowski
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
23 October 2008
"Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole. Rita is staring at the concentric circles of bamboo that comprise the hut's round conical roof. She is lying still, hands crossed on her chest — she woke up that way — and through the mosquito net, too tight, terrifying, suffocating in a small way when she thinks too much about it, she can see the concentric circles of the roof above and the circles are twenty-two in number, because she has counted and recounted."
This short story was the first that went from start to finish, it had a believable character and a normal conflict of man vs. nature narrative. It had a beginning, a middle and an end. This short story uses imagery, syntax, and diction to reveal her superhuman triumph which only is brief because she basically come tumbling back down to earth which is ironic because the title leads you to believe the opposite. The mountain was a symbol of her struggle, syntax changed when describing personal things about Rita, for example, "Her name is Rita. Her hair is red like a Romanian's and her hands are large. Eyes large and mouth lipless and she hates, has always hated, her lipless mouth. Her father had been a pastor." The sentences become shorter. Tone is also used throughout the short story as to try and make you symapthize for Rita. At the end of the story the author does not bash her or call her a failure but takes into her account for her effort and this tone is portrayed throughout.
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
23 October 2008
"Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole. Rita is staring at the concentric circles of bamboo that comprise the hut's round conical roof. She is lying still, hands crossed on her chest — she woke up that way — and through the mosquito net, too tight, terrifying, suffocating in a small way when she thinks too much about it, she can see the concentric circles of the roof above and the circles are twenty-two in number, because she has counted and recounted."
This short story was the first that went from start to finish, it had a believable character and a normal conflict of man vs. nature narrative. It had a beginning, a middle and an end. This short story uses imagery, syntax, and diction to reveal her superhuman triumph which only is brief because she basically come tumbling back down to earth which is ironic because the title leads you to believe the opposite. The mountain was a symbol of her struggle, syntax changed when describing personal things about Rita, for example, "Her name is Rita. Her hair is red like a Romanian's and her hands are large. Eyes large and mouth lipless and she hates, has always hated, her lipless mouth. Her father had been a pastor." The sentences become shorter. Tone is also used throughout the short story as to try and make you symapthize for Rita. At the end of the story the author does not bash her or call her a failure but takes into her account for her effort and this tone is portrayed throughout.
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Natalie Lopatowski
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
30 October 2008
"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"
I chose to use the title of the short story as my quote because I feel that the title is used as a question and is connected with the rest of the short story because it responds to the title.
The diction is very vague and not much detail, the passage’s main character is referred to as "he" because it seems like the character is seeking for something but is maybe confused about what exactly he is looking for. In the paragraph "he" says, "in another part of the world, this soldier dragged from his car, this soldier alone, this dead unbloody body in the dust under the truck—why does it set the man on edge, why does it feel so personal? The length of the title and body paragraph are also significant to the short story because considering there lengths the title is really long and the story quite short, this is so because the body paragraph relates on the way a horrific event going on from across the world can reach down to the T.V. and stab you in the chest. So basically the title says it all.
Mrs. Baione-Doda
AP Literature
30 October 2008
"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"
I chose to use the title of the short story as my quote because I feel that the title is used as a question and is connected with the rest of the short story because it responds to the title.
The diction is very vague and not much detail, the passage’s main character is referred to as "he" because it seems like the character is seeking for something but is maybe confused about what exactly he is looking for. In the paragraph "he" says, "in another part of the world, this soldier dragged from his car, this soldier alone, this dead unbloody body in the dust under the truck—why does it set the man on edge, why does it feel so personal? The length of the title and body paragraph are also significant to the short story because considering there lengths the title is really long and the story quite short, this is so because the body paragraph relates on the way a horrific event going on from across the world can reach down to the T.V. and stab you in the chest. So basically the title says it all.
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