Literary Techniques Used In Ernest Hemingway's Drown

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Drown was a sad story. Reading it you could see what goes on not only with drown, but in other family’s to. Target audiences are the mother, Dad, and the son Yunior. The Mother character was successful because she stuck it through being a single parent. Some parts of the story the author could have definitely elaborate more on the dad toward the end and the daughter Madai. The writer to me did not have a distinctive voice so I would not recognize it if I were reading something similar. The use of vocabulary was very informal. The way the writer used Spanglish throughout the story to capture tones of the characters was good. If I was not part of the target audience, I would still be interested because sometime the target audience fades away

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