New Moon Techniques
Author's Craft Essay The book New Moon by Stephenie Meyer used many different author’s craft techniques to accomplish certain goals. New Moon is a fantasy story about a girl named Bella Swan who’s in love with a dangerous vampire. In New Moon Bella’s vampire boyfriend, Edward, leaves her for “her own safety” causing her to go into depression. Many months later Bella finds him in trouble and it’s her turn to save him. New Moon contains many different author's craft techniques like dialogue, symbols, description inner thinking, flash forwards and revealing actions. These author’s techniques all play important roles to the story to help support the theme, build a mood and raise the stakes.
Stephenie Meyer constantly used dialogue throughout New …show more content…
This is important because it helps build a mood. On page 85 through 93, Stephenie Meyer simply put the name of each month that goes by without Edward. In this case, the author didn’t use a lot of description to build a mood, she actually used very little to none. However, this still had the same effect. This is important because her lack of description of the months that pass without Edward helps show the deep dark depression Bella goes through without him. It helps show the nothingness and helplessness that she feels. Finally though, on page 93 there’s one small paragraph about how time passes so slowly for Bella. It talks about how time passing, no matter how slow. This is important to the book New Moon because it shows how the pain she goes through when Edward leaves isn’t physical. It helps build a depression like mood. Stephenie Meyer also used inner thinking to help build a mood. When Bella notices somethings going on with Edward, she becomes very worried. This is important to New Moon because Bella’s inner thinking shows how her worrying makes the problem much bigger than it already is. It helps make the reader feel the chaos going on inside her head. This is important to New Moon because Bella’s inner thinking helps the readers understand her perspective. This is important because most people would be extremely worried in her situation but she is only worried about Edward. This proves Bella’s love for Edward because even though he leaves her she still cares for
Stephenie Meyer constantly used dialogue throughout New …show more content…
This is important because it helps build a mood. On page 85 through 93, Stephenie Meyer simply put the name of each month that goes by without Edward. In this case, the author didn’t use a lot of description to build a mood, she actually used very little to none. However, this still had the same effect. This is important because her lack of description of the months that pass without Edward helps show the deep dark depression Bella goes through without him. It helps show the nothingness and helplessness that she feels. Finally though, on page 93 there’s one small paragraph about how time passes so slowly for Bella. It talks about how time passing, no matter how slow. This is important to the book New Moon because it shows how the pain she goes through when Edward leaves isn’t physical. It helps build a depression like mood. Stephenie Meyer also used inner thinking to help build a mood. When Bella notices somethings going on with Edward, she becomes very worried. This is important to New Moon because Bella’s inner thinking shows how her worrying makes the problem much bigger than it already is. It helps make the reader feel the chaos going on inside her head. This is important to New Moon because Bella’s inner thinking helps the readers understand her perspective. This is important because most people would be extremely worried in her situation but she is only worried about Edward. This proves Bella’s love for Edward because even though he leaves her she still cares for