Watkins’ chooses the literary device of foreshadowing at the start of this selection to emphasize his dissatisfaction on the trip and to provoke an emotional response from readers. To foreshadow is to warn or indicate an event. In this case, Watkins’ uses this tool to indicate the trip as melancholy. At the start of the trip where they set out from Culver City southwest of Los Angeles, where they were covering the 1970 auction of MGM’s, Watkins recalls that “(a genuine wake in the land of celluloid dreams; perhaps it should have told [him] something)” (Watkins 28). Notice how he accurately uses foreshadowing “wake” to spark a feeling of apprehension, this sense of anxiety notifies the audience that the trip will present unpleasant changes …show more content…
Contrast is a strategy that shows the unlikeness or differences between two or more things. Where the journey from boy to a man and he starts it with comparing the present with the past in order to explore his disappointment towards changes in his homeland. Watkins in comparing mainly focuses on theme distinctions. Comparing is a strategy that can be defined as the similarity or dissimilarity towards sojourn which are connected with past. Newport Beach to Watkins is that, “Now [he] could hardly find it, what with a freeway interchange, motels, shopping centers, and what appeared to be a high-rise department store. The hills were alive with condominiums,” (29). Notice how in the first two sentences, the “hardly find it” inflames the reader to feel distressed with the use of his critical idea followed by powerful and stony words where he presents the unwanted change. The unwanted change of overdevelopment in the landscape makes him feel disappointed. Watkins observes, “The little road that led down to the beach-asphalt now- was chained off. Private Road. No Trespassing. Gone was anything [he] could fix [his] memory on, except the sea itself,” (30). It appears at first glance that the author does a better job of focusing on his specific word choice that creates a dominant impression: chained, Trespassing etc. reflects on his readers that the warming restrictions made him feel unwelcomed. In the second sentence he accepts that he cannot “fix” what is “Gone” which aggravates the audience to feel what is disappeared cannot be changed and cannot come
JERSEY CITY -- A Jersey City man arrested last Sunday night when police found a loaded handgun during a traffic stop is also charged with threatening to "shoot up" a woman 's car while her children were inside, authorities said. Corey Coble, 33, of the 700 block of Ocean Avenue, is charged with telling the woman on Sept. 25 that he was "going to shoot up the victim 's car with her children in it," the criminal complaint says. Jersey City traffic stop leads to 2 arrests, recovery of loaded handgun: cops Jersey City traffic stop leads to 2 arrests, recovery of loaded handgun: cops Authorities say they found a defaced Beretta 9mm, loaded with 11 rounds, during the stop. A warrant for Coble 's arrest was signed on Oct. 12 and he was
”This excerpt is a key part in the authors suspense. The reason it is so key is because it includes such great imagery. Imagery is the use of words and phrases that appeals to the 5 senses. From this quote you can imagine Cujo running out of the garage and attacking Donna, which makes you on the edge of your seat to see what will happen next.
Compare and contrast Trying to express yourself sometimes is not always a good idea especially when someone is arguing with another while that other person is older or above the law. The way the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and the story “The Saboteur” compare and contrast is where both Mr. Chiu and John’s wife try to do the things that seemed right to express themselves the way they wanted but at the end which was wrong and which made them get treated in a way that they did not like whether it was by a love one or by the law enforcement. Growing up, many parents always tell their child to be careful in whatever that they are doing. When the individual is young, they might say that the parent is annoying or that the parent is bothering them
The speaker struggled with the swamp. Oliver expresses this with the use of strong diction and full imagery. Powerful dark words are used, and the swamps omnipotent grasp is felt. Through the use of structure and enjambment the intensity and pace builds to the end where a hope is exposed
We had lived in the small bayside fishing village of Fields Landing since I had been in the first grade, now in the third grade, I was moving. I was not sad to say goodbye to the mudflats and train tracks of Fields Landing. The farm was in a ‘town' called Larabee, across the Eel River. This was the place where I learned what land is. Before having moved around, I had witnessed the terraformed man-made land, city parks, and trim grass filled lawns, I knew what that was.
By marking it in intervals in his novel, he increases the sense of impending doom. And ironically, though the days seem drawn out and monotonous, everything happens, changing their lives almost instantaneously in just a short
Douglas determines to make the summer of 1928 the best one yet, but things don’t go as planned. Through feelings of joy, loss, and acceptance Douglas grows to learn that life goes on, with or without him. It can be said that Douglas is a young spirited child looking for adventure. He’s a twelve-year-old boy, hoping to spend his summer away from school with excitement
Twin City was incorporated in 1921, gets its name from the combining of two adjacent cities they are Graymont and Summit. Twin City began as two towns, Summit and Graymont, which merged in 1921 to survive the effects of the Great Depression. The small town of Summit began in 1886 with the construction of the Rogers and the Summit Railroad (Now the Millen Southwestern Railroad) and was incorporated in 1898. The town of Graymount established in 1896 and incorporated in 1900, was located one-mile from summit and had its own depot and post office. The two small towns of Summit and Graymount were incorporated into one town called Twin City in 1921 by an act of the Georgia legislature.
Los Angeles is the one of the most populous cities in the United States of America. Los Angeles takes less than two hundred years to achieve the current level of development. For a development, the city needs various factors, however, without psychological-social perspective, all those physical factors can be categorized into three: geographical resources, populations, and healthy economy. To develop a city, the city requires money. To gain money, the city needs higher population.
A plume of gray smoke floats across the early morning sky as Granite City comes to life. “You smell that? That’s the smell of money ,” said Brenda Whitaker, a town resident, former mill worker, and now restaurant proprietor. That is what her father use to say of the stench that Granite City residents would awake to every morning as the mill puffed out its great cloud of smoke from the coke plant.
In the first poster the feeling comes across as dangerous and tense but the second posters feeling is somewhat deeper, that the events go deeper into the story. The posters both create different feelings so that audiences can get different perspectives from the
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is a classic American novel that shows the difficulties migrant workers had to go through during the Great Depression. The novel’s intercalary chapters use setting, syntax and other literary elements to depict the hardships that migrant families went through and to create a tone of despair in the story. Body Paragraph 1: By using both syntax and diction, Steinbeck develops a tone of despair in the Intercalary Chapter 25 of the grapes of wrath.
During the 1930’s, the San Joaquin Valley was experiencing a flood of migrants from the Great Plains due to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. The county governments in the valley specifically Kern Country, which banned The Grapes of Wrath from county libraries, weren’t pleased about the sudden influx of migrants and the subsequent increase of county spending it caused.1 Even though New Deal programs were helping alleviate the valley’s humanitarian crisis by helping migrants escape the squalor with hygienic labor farms, valley newspapers criticized the programs as a waste.2 The San Joaquin Valley benefited heavily from New Deal programs that stimulated the valley’s economy, dealt with the migrant crisis, and built up infrastructure that
His use of suspense to establish setting as a character is shown where Whitney quotes the captain saying, “This place has an evil name among seafaring men, sir. ”(25) This quote helps give the island an identity,
Visions uses both suspense and surprise effectively throughout the entirety of film, as any good horror film does. Surprise is an element of film that 's meant to cause intense startlement of the viewer. This technique a lot of times defines the movie as horror and certainly in the case of Visions. Surprise is one of the most effective ways a movie can put instantaneous fear in the viewer and make them “jump”. An example of surprise is when Eve walks in on Helena, standing at the foot of her bed chanting what seems like a demonic spell.