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In this extract, there is an attempt to create Florence’s thoughts and feelings.
First of all, the author uses a lot of action descriptions of the girl. For instance, the author wrote “In the wildness of her sorrow, shame, and terror, the forlorn girl hurried through the sunshine of a bright morning, as if it were the darkness of a winter night. ” The author presents the sorrow, shame and terror the adjective “hurried”. In the same paragraph, the girl “fled without a thought, without a hope, without a purpose, but to fly somewhere – anywhere.”. “fled” is usually used to describe someone that is running away from something. Here, it is more of stating the girl’s feelings that are introduced above. In the third paragraph, the girl was lost in London and was questioning herself: “Where to go? Still somewhere, anywhere! still going on; but where! She thought of the only other time she had been lost in the wild wilderness of London—though not lost as now—and went that way”. Via this inside activity and thoughts of her, the reader is indicated the nervous and uncertainness of the girl. The questioning of “where to go” presents to the reader that the girl is not familiar with the situation and is nervous about it. In the 4th paragraph, the girl cried in panic and dried her swollen eyes. The author wrote “drying her swollen eyes” which shows the reader that the girl is scared and panicking.
The sun shine and “sorrow, shame, and terror” form a contradiction, which makes the feelings of the girl more obvious
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Homework 2
The author was very successful in terms of describing the garden. The author uses great words and phrases, language features and techniques.
The author uses wonderful words and phrases when describing the garden. In line 1, the author first presented the garden as a “unfamiliar” garden. This proves that Rosie has not been to the garden before and does not know what is in there. In line 2, The author writes about the plants and the condition of the garden. In the garden there was an “overgrown mess”, “muddle of trees and shrubs”. These all prove that the garden is abandoned for a long time. Since in modern days, people always want their home to be clean and organized. Therefore, a garden with “overgrown mess” indicates that the unfamiliar garden is abandoned and might not be a safe place for children to play. The “muddle of trees and shrubs” also show the reader that the garden is not under the care of anyone. If someone owned the garden, then these “muddle of trees and shrubs” would be cleared away. For instance, my family has a yard and we always kept it organized and cut out weeds every several days. In line 3, the author states that an “ancient mulberry tree” stands in the center of the garden. The word “ancient” also shows that the plants have been growing wild for a long time. The tree is probably grown long ago before, when the garden is under care. In the next sentence, the author keeps adding details to the ancient tree. The author later starts to write about the wintry sun that hung low in the sky and it “threw long twisted shadows across the undergrowth within its cage”. This description of the sun indicates that the story most likely happened in summer. This is because during summer, the sun is usually nearest to the Earth. The temperature is also likely to be very high based on the words “twisted shadows” and “cage”. The word “twisted” usually appears when the author is writing about something torturing and in extreme condition. Therefore, a twisted shadow indicates a very hot temperature. The word “cage” is also the same. A “cage” is usually used to describe a restraint or condition that chains a character to reality or to a situation. In this case, the cage of the sun is anywhere under the coverage of its boiling heat. In the next line, the author deepens the impression of the audience on the condition of the garden by adding more details. According to the text, the tree grew up through “the broken bricks and chunks of cement”. Based on this evidence, the reader could infer that the broken bricks and chunks of cement is part of the remnant of a building. This provides additional support for the fact that the garden is abandoned for a long time and is long out of care. In the last line, the author describes the fence of the old garden and the abandoned path. The abandoned path “disappeared into a mass of nettles and brambles before it reached the padlocked door”. This proves that the garden is abandoned for a long time. Since there is no one caring it and cleaning the garden.
The language features and techniques are memorable. The author used a lot of similes and personification when describing the garden. The author wrote that the ancient mulberry tree “stood” at the center. This use of personification in describing the tree provides a clear impression for the audience about the how the tree grows like. The author also uses personification when the broken bricks and chunks of cement “chokes” the tree. These use of personification all make the story much more interesting and attracting to the reader. The author also uses similes. The author describes the knuckles in the earth as gigantic malformed hand.
In conclusion, the author did a great job in describing the garden in terms of the words used and the language features and techniques.
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The story “Bram Stoker” created an atmosphere of suspense using different techniques.
For instance, “Be warned!” shows that the person who is in charge is not kidding or joking about the danger of the rooms. The sudden change of the tone of the person also indicates the mysteriousness and also the suspense atmosphere of the castle. “let me warn you with all seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, then haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then” This whole speech of the person in charge also creates a suspense a suspense atmosphere for the audience, since the reader has just started to read and does not know anything about the castle. Therefore, this speech would greatly increase their suspenseful feelings toward the castle. This part is also a foreshadowing which indicates what happened next to the main character.
“But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss” This part of the story is one of the most suspenseful parts of the story to me. It creates a strong suspenseful atmosphere for the reader. There are two main parts of this quote. The first part is the thinking of the character, which directly shows his fear towards the strange and creepy figure. The second part is a imagery of the crawling man, which makes the whole story suspenseful by describing a dim environment and a scary creature crawling up the wall.
“I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.” This quote is right beneath the previous one. Its main purpose is to follow through the scene of the creature crawling. By writing an imagery about the movement of the creature, the author shows a scary imagery of the creature grasping onto the wall using its toes and fingers while moving quickly on the wall.
“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear—in awful fear—and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of….” The last part of the story puts up a cliff hanger, which makes the reader to continue in their creepy imaginations of what happened next. This is a typical cliff hanger of a horror story when the author or the director places an undone scene of a creepy creature enclosing on a character. The description and imagery of the scene itself is not necessarily scary but the reader would scare him or her self later imagining what would happen next.
In conclusion, the author created suspenseful scenes and atmospheres in different aspects throughout the story.
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