Joan Didion: An Infinite Power Study
This infinite power study examines the works by Joan Didion to analyze her writing styles. It is important to mention that every writer has a unique way of writing style that makes him or her distinct and exclusive. Some of Didion’s works examined in this study include “Salvador", On Going Home", "Marrying Absurd", “Why I Write", and "Miami". In a snapshot, some of the things noticeable in her works are the explicit use of quotation marks, the use of first-person narration, repetition, and most importantly, the use of longs sentences. This study is significant and relevant in enlightening the readers to be informed in communicating intelligently when analyzing any piece of literature. Indeed, Didion has succeeded in an effective use of artistic
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To begin with, Didion uses repetition style intertwined with description through a narrative approach in “Salvador” in an endeavor to avoid legitimization of the brutal acts she witnessed in El Salvador. When communicating about what she experienced in the summer of 1982, she gives the readers a dreadful picture of El Salvador through her vivid description the political atmosphere in the region, calling the experience one of the terrifying encounters in her life. The same is vivid in "Miami". In fact, repetition and description make the work aesthetically, politically, psychologically, journalistically, and morally significant to the audiences and invokes an emotion of wanting to know more. Her adroit use of description similarly demonstrates her mastery of connotation. Her mastery of connotation makes her works more vibrant in details, and more importantly, the way she employs digression makes the readership interesting and compelling. Unlike her peers, Didion is prosaic sensitive by giving observable sensory details of the events that the reader can see with his or her mind when interacting with her works. Her approach demonstrates a writer with an adept mind in choosing and intertwining her details with an almost empyreal measure of precision and rigor. As a result, her works look unique and distinct in
To begin with, Didion uses repetition style intertwined with description through a narrative approach in “Salvador” in an endeavor to avoid legitimization of the brutal acts she witnessed in El Salvador. When communicating about what she experienced in the summer of 1982, she gives the readers a dreadful picture of El Salvador through her vivid description the political atmosphere in the region, calling the experience one of the terrifying encounters in her life. The same is vivid in "Miami". In fact, repetition and description make the work aesthetically, politically, psychologically, journalistically, and morally significant to the audiences and invokes an emotion of wanting to know more. Her adroit use of description similarly demonstrates her mastery of connotation. Her mastery of connotation makes her works more vibrant in details, and more importantly, the way she employs digression makes the readership interesting and compelling. Unlike her peers, Didion is prosaic sensitive by giving observable sensory details of the events that the reader can see with his or her mind when interacting with her works. Her approach demonstrates a writer with an adept mind in choosing and intertwining her details with an almost empyreal measure of precision and rigor. As a result, her works look unique and distinct in