Summary Of The Confrontation By Raymond Barrio

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What makes books so meaningful to people? People can tell what the story is about by the theme of the story. The theme of a story is underlying meaning of the story, or the foundation of the story. Without a good foundation, then the story is not going to be very good or meaningful. It’s not only about that too. It’s also about the writer’s style. Some writers like to use big words and sound poetic, but others might prefer smaller and more understandable word. Some pieces you can hear the voice in the piece, but for some it might be harder to hear. This is all a writer’s style. Writers usually base their style off who their audience is. Younger audience smaller words, older audience, bigger, more concise words. In “The Confrontation”, the theme that Manuel and …show more content…

Raymond Barrio, the author of this piece, uses imagery, figurative language and diction to produce a clear theme throughout the story. “The endlessly unending piling up of bucket upon bucket upon crate upon stack upon rack upon mound upon mountains” is what Manuel’s job was. This makes a clear image because of the imagery used and the figurative language makes it so you can tell what it was really like. His work seems very grueling, tiring and boring. All of this got this all from just reading this one line. Using upon is part of Raymond Barrio’s style, and it makes an emphasis on the word after upon because of the repetition of that certain word. The theme is forming from this small excerpt, and that’s because the writer used imagery and figurative language. While Manuel was picking the fruit, “he

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