sentence/compound sentence/complex sentence) Informal Style The following are some characters of informal style: • Vocabulary: low-level; perhaps slang; dialogue style • Organization of text: more so narrative or note-like • Audience: usually personal (more first or third-limited point of view) • Sentences: mostly simple or compound sentences Organization of Text Writing is organized in various ways‚ depending upon the author’s purpose: to inform‚ to entertain‚ to express
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NYC/Manhattan/September‚ 1986 Labor Day Weekend Book continues to the present day. Main Characters: Laura and Maurice 2. First person narrative 3. Maurice’s background: poor‚ drug ridden‚ violent‚ unstable 4. Laura’s background: abusive‚ but hidden from sight; middle class and suburban 5. Maurice is on the street asking for money‚ he asks Laura for money for food b/c he is hungry. She passes him at first‚ but then goes back and they go to McDonalds for lunch. They then meet for the next 150 Mondays. 6. Maurice’s
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Written by the writer Kate McCaffrey Destroying Avalon uses the narrative techniques Direct Speech‚ Emotive language‚ Conflict‚ Point Of View‚ Actions and Expression to show the reader the issues of true friendship and the dangers of cyber bullying through her teenage characters. SUICIDE Marshall knew that suicide was never the sensible answer‚ but thought it was the only one left remaining. He felt scared that his school life was never going to be any more manageable and that “…this is never
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poverty generates sympathy towards him. Ahn talks about his job of pamphlet delivery at the age of fourteen to earn money and help his mother and the rest of his family out financially. Ahn mentions the hardship he went through during the job through first person point of view such as ’I slung the straps over my shoulders and it was lumpy and unbalanced ’ carrying a forty kilogram worth of pamphlets in his old school bag and ’Ten p.m. that night we slumped into bed absolutely exhausted. We still had about
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Brother Dear Lukas As you read: In the first few paragraphs I see that the story is written in 1st person narrative form as the girl. She is about 16 or 17 years old‚ since she attends grade 11 school. We get introduced with her father and brother Greg. Her relationship with Greg has its ups and downs‚ and with her father her relationship is okay. The stories conflict is based on the father wanting his children to follow his footsteps because
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Cut‚ By Patricia McCormick‚ is a fine example of why some young adult fiction deserves literary serious consideration. As a first person account Cut is not only the story of a young adult’s journey through a mental illness‚ it also serves as a guide to help others find solutions to their own mental problems. The story is as believable as the well rounded characters who actually make you feel that you are there‚ in the room‚ with them. With descriptive detail‚ this story not only initiates psychological
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Independent Novel Study In Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro the major themes in this book is hope‚ and free will. Hope plays as a symbol and feeling of freedom for the characters. Their curiosity is what causes their confidence to one day be free‚ but then is let down when having to face the truth that their life is set for them and that they must accept it. Free will is shown that clones are unable to change their fates as organ donors‚ but their lack of free will affects many other elements of
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Sckls” and “The Truth” Mklng Sckls‚ a novella by Justin Sirois‚ and The Truth‚ a short story by J Thompson‚ are two fictional pieces‚ which can be compared and contrasted through multiple elements and underlying themes. Sirois’ Sckls is a first person narrative presented as a collection of computerized journal entries composed by the character of Salim Abid. The wordplay of the entries‚ or chapters‚ is direct. Deliberate and often hasty‚ the crafting of Abid’s compositions captures the authenticity
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the related text ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ by JC Burke is about a family after a brutal car accident their life’s was like chaos and many things in the family fell apart. Tom Brennan adopts a new way of looking at life through the use of first person narrative and visual imagery “everything I thought I knew about who I was and who the Brennan’s were changed forever” implies Tom’s innocence to alter his feeling of grief towards his recklessness brother Daniel because of the trouble Daniel make in
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The Use of Force The point of view in the story “The Use of Force” is in first person narrative. This conveys inner the inner thoughts of the narrator as the doctor. The doctor is a reliable narrator and an observer. I feel that his personality is brought out in the doctor. So the doctors thoughts and behaviors are a reflection of the authors. As for the setting it takes place at a family’s home. I think it takes place somewhere in the early 1900’s. I think it would make a difference to the story
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