Where Things Come Back is a story by John Corey Whaley which is compiled of three different points of views from different characters that are all connected. It takes place in different locations, but the main setting of the story is Lily, Arkansas which connects all the characters because for some reason they all come back and end up there. The story starts off with Cullen Witter, the main character of the story, identifying Olso’s, his dead cousin, body. From there we meet his Aunt Julia who is suffering through the stages of grief terribly. Then we meet his family and closest friends. We meet his father who is a driver, his mother who gives haircuts, his brother, Gabriel, who also doubles as one of his closest friends, Lucas who is also …show more content…
For example, he uses first person point of view with Cullen’s part of the story.One piece of evidence that shows this is, “My mother cried on the way home. My little brother, Gabriel, looked anxious, but he kept his headphones on and didn’t say much for the duration of the trip. I drove, but I didn’t want to because I thought it might rain (Whaley,pg.2).” This shows the literary device of first person point of view because it uses words like my and I which are words used to write in the first person. Another example the author uses is allusion. A piece of evidence that can be used to show this is, “Her name was Mena Prescott, and she reminded me of the redhead from The Breakfast Club (Whaley, pg.11).” This is a usage of allusion because the author referenced a famous movie that almost everyone knows to describe someone without going into a lot of detail. Also, this story uses point of view, but in the third person when telling Benton Sage's part of the story. A piece of evidence that shows this is, “ When Benton Sage found out that h-e would be going on a mission for his church that year, he was overwhelmed with excitement and panic (Whaley,pg.16).” This piece of evidence shows that the author used the literary device of third person point of view because it used Benton’s name and him which are all things you do to refer to someone in the third person. One more literary device the author used was foreshadowing. The book states, “ ‘This is the angel Gabriel,’ he said. ‘Do not fear him.’ Just before the boy opened his mouth to speak a large bird flew overhead and landed on the angel’s shoulder. It let out a great call just before the angel Gabriel spoke. He then said, with a great volume and force, ‘Benton, you have been called to bring change to the world. You have found favor in God’s eyes.’ (Whaley, pg.18), “ It was a Thursday when my brother, the Left Hand of God, disappeared(Whaley, pg.55).”
The first literary device is a simile and it paints a picture in the readers head.
The author uses a lot of description when setting the scene, or writing how someone looks. He also uses a lot of color imagery within the chapters and writes in 3rd person narrative.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
A man once said, “Truth must come before reconciliation,” and in Tim O’Brien’s fictional novel The Things They Carried, that quote definitely holds weight as many men in the war had to deal with the true fear that they experienced during their time in Vietnam. Many characters throughout this novel are thoroughly connected to that quote, but none more strongly connected that medic Rat Kiley. In the novel, Rat goes through two pivotal transitions on his way to reconciliation as he gives strength as a medic to those in need in one half of the novel and allows himself to realize reconciliation in the other.
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Using words and details in a story can provide the main impression by telling rather instead of showing an author’s feelings and thoughts in the childhood memory. In the showing and telling technique and author may use verbs like “felt” or a noun such as “thought” to create the dominant impression.
First, the author uses many literary devices such as personification to get a point across to the reader. Jeannette states “then the flames leaped up, reaching my
Ray Bradbury uses point of view in the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes as a way to reveal the thoughts of multiple characters and their personalities. For example, Charles states that “For… it's a special hour. Women never wake then, do they? They sleep the sleep of babes and children. But men in middle age? They know that hour well,” (page 57-58) meaning that women and children are never awake and have no regret. He is proved wrong, however, when we see that Ms. Foley, Jim and Will are awake at that hour. Another example is Charles’s assessment of Jim’s character. He states “but Jim, now, he knows it happens, he watches for it happening, he sees it start, he sees it finish, he licks the wound he expected, and never asks why; he knows.
The effective use of color and imagery by an author, combined with poetic language can give the reader a detailed image in their mind. Edith Wharton uses this technique in her writing in the novella Ethan Frome. Using imagery, the author paints a vivid picture with words using color to set moods, develop characters, and foreshadow coming events allowing the reader to fully experience the world of Ethan Frome.
The techniques used by Hurston include foreshadowing, language and sympathy. When you begin the first chapter, Hurston includes questions from characters standing on the side-lines that in a way that shows what will be present in her story and what questions will be confronted as she speaks.
Metaphors and Similes are often used in this story, so the reader has a better image of the setting, this is something, and I find Connell did incredibly well, for instance when he refers to the darkness of the night like moist black velvet, the sea was as flat as a plate-glass and it was like trying to see through a blanket.
Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is about a young girl's struggle to escape reality while defying authority and portraying herself as a beauty queen; ultimately, she is forced back to reality when confronted by a man who symbolizes her demise. The young girl, Connie, is hell- bent on not becoming like her mother or sister. She feels she is above them because she is prettier. She wants to live in a "dream world" where she listens to music all day and lives with Prince Charming. She does not encounter Prince Charming but is visited by someone, Arnold Friend, who embodies the soul of something evil. Arnold Friend symbolizes "Death" in that he is going to take Connie away from the world she once knew. Even if she is not dead, she will never be the same person again, and will be dead in spirit. With the incorporation of irony, Oates illustrates how Connie's self-infatuation, her sole reason for living, is the reason she is faced with such a terrible situation possibly ending her life.
One of the literary techniques most prominently featured throughout the passage would be that of imagery. The author takes great care to interweave sentences comparing the traits
By using the third person omniscient point of view, the narrator is able to render the characters with information related both from direct description and from the other character's revelations. This way, the description remains unbiased, but at the same time coherent with how the various characters see it. For example, after the narrator tells us that "He was an only child, eleven years old. She was a widow. She was determined to be neither possessive nor lacking in devotion.", we are able to understand why the boy is so emotionally attached to his mother and, at the beginning, unwilling to ask her for permission to go to his beach and, later in the story, unwilling to let her know about his adventure through the tunnel. This also explains why the mother let him go without questions, even if she was very worried about him.
...the narrator and Briony gives details from their point of view, however the details are set up to make you believe that things happened a certain way but it also allows you to draw conclusions of what you believe is happening. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, Dietrich Knickerbocker sets up a narrative of events and leads you to believe that things happened to certain way, but in the end he leaves the narrative open and allows the reader to infer and draw their own conclusions. Both works effectively achieve the concept of molding the reader’s thought, then setting the scene for the reader to create their own conclusions.