Nellie Campobello's From A Window

n the excerpt from “From a Window”, by Nellie Campobello, the author utilizes terrifying diction. She does this in order to convey the fear she had and how he tried to comfort through all of this chaos. Nellie’s purpose is to inform audience about her feelings and her experience during the Mexican Revolution. She wants them to know about the horrible events that happen in the world. Campobello uses personal experience tp show the audience her point of view of this scary situation. She also uses examples to show how she would feel if the body were taken away. The article’s intended audience would probably be those who have been in similar situations. The author would want them to hear her message because she wants to share with them how she dealt with this.

The text exhibits tragic, depressing, and disturbing diction and it impacts the reader because it makes them feel sympathetic

or maybe even empathetic towards the author.

This diction helps convey her memories because it lets her feel those emotions she had during the revolution once again. Her purpose in conveying these memories through this diction is to remember exactly how it felt to her personally and how it relates to every other situation like this around the world. Campobello illustrates a tragic event when she describes, “ten men with their weapons drawn, aiming at a young man on his knees, unshaven and grimy… ten bursts of fire left the 30-30’s and embedded themselves in the young man’s body, swollen with alcohol and cowardice.” (Paragraph #1) The use of tragic diction is significant because it gives an idea of what’s going on and what to expect as you read this article. The intended impact on the reader was to give them a feel of what a horrible incident had just occurred. Nellie demonstrates the sense of depression after this man’s death when she says, “I liked to look at him because I thought he was very afraid.”(Paragraph #2) Her purpose

of writing this was to express how lonely she was. This impacts the reader because it tells them about the connection she made with the dead man about being afraid and it makes them feel sad for her. The author suggests her disturbing thoughts of the dead man being taken away when she states, “That night I went to sleep dreaming they would shoot someone else and hoping it would be next to my house.” (Paragraph #3) The purpose of saying this was to show the effect of the revolution on her mind. This makes the reader feel a little shocked to know that she wanted another dead body next to her house. The author shows how she was filled with fear and her way of finding comfort through this horrible experience which, overall, exhibits her use of terrifying diction.