Blog # 2
Jessica Carbine
Adam Burningham
English 1010-026
Aug/31/2015
Chapters 4-5
Chapter 4
Chapter four was about description which is an incredibly important thing to learn as a writer because it can literally make or break a piece. The book used some essays that were very good examples, but I think I would rather like to post a passages that I think has good description and talk about the way it pulls you in, just so I can properly apply this and give you an example.
" The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This sentence is a good example of description because it's different, it's not how one would normally describe a sunset so that pulls you in by making you wonder what it is that causes the main character "Tally" to think that way and it goes on to say.
"Any other summer, a sunset like this would have been beautiful. But nothing had been beautiful since Peris turned pretty. Losing your best friend sucks, even if it's only for three months and two days."
So you see she no longer thinks of the sunset as pretty because she misses her friend.
You see in this book before you turn sixteen you are an "uglie" then on your sixteenth birthday you under go what is essentially plastic surgery and move to another part of the city where the "pretties" live.
Chapter 5
Chapter five talks about narration and how important to keep the details, characters and/or events in your story or essay in order and not to get side tracked by tangents. When I think of narration I always think of narrators in movies or books. In particular the ones that interact with the main character by breaking the forth wall so to speak. One of my favorite examples is in a movie called stranger than fiction. In this movie the main character can hear the narrator but the narrator has no idea the main character is real but the narrator changes the life of the main character forever with one sentence.
" Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Stranger than fiction. Karen Eiffel.
Chapter four was about description which is an incredibly important thing to learn as a writer because it can literally make or break a piece. The book used some essays that were very good examples, but I think I would rather like to post a passages that I think has good description and talk about the way it pulls you in, just so I can properly apply this and give you an example.
" The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. This sentence is a good example of description because it's different, it's not how one would normally describe a sunset so that pulls you in by making you wonder what it is that causes the main character "Tally" to think that way and it goes on to say.
"Any other summer, a sunset like this would have been beautiful. But nothing had been beautiful since Peris turned pretty. Losing your best friend sucks, even if it's only for three months and two days."
So you see she no longer thinks of the sunset as pretty because she misses her friend.
You see in this book before you turn sixteen you are an "uglie" then on your sixteenth birthday you under go what is essentially plastic surgery and move to another part of the city where the "pretties" live.
Chapter 5
Chapter five talks about narration and how important to keep the details, characters and/or events in your story or essay in order and not to get side tracked by tangents. When I think of narration I always think of narrators in movies or books. In particular the ones that interact with the main character by breaking the forth wall so to speak. One of my favorite examples is in a movie called stranger than fiction. In this movie the main character can hear the narrator but the narrator has no idea the main character is real but the narrator changes the life of the main character forever with one sentence.
" Little did he know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death". Stranger than fiction. Karen Eiffel.
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