Brief Summary Of Dance By Dia Diaz

The story engaged me since the first paragraph. When I started reading the first paragraph, I thought it would be about how a poor and immigrated family dealt with money, but the turning point, which was the family stolen money, made the story even more attractive and interesting, especially after I knew that his so-called friends had stolen the family’s money. I was curious to know how they solved the problem, and I was engaged with the family problems and life. Diaz was telling the story in a way that made me wonder what would happen next. Moreover, Diaz wrote the story as he was orally telling the story. He used questions such as “so what happen?”,”Right,” and “where the hell did I get these ideas?”. Also, he used a kind of informal language. For example, he used “what the hell," “stupid morons,” "dopes," asshole,” ”out shit,” and “my skinny ass”. In these techniques, he engaged me in the story since he was telling the story as if he was speaking to me.
For example, he described the level of poverty that his family experienced, and how his family worked to save money, and he explained the rate of crime in his neighborhood. Also, when he described how he returned the money, he made the story enjoyable. Diaz also used many visual images. For example, he described that the punishment for taking the hidden money might have been going to approach death, and that money was the “forbidden stash," which showed how his family was closed fisted and poor. He also wrote that kids could not live their bike unattended for tenth if a second, which revealed that his neighborhood was