Use Of Tone In Laurie Halse Anderson's Twisted

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Within the young adult novel Twisted, author Laurie Halse Anderson practices appropriate devices like imagery and tone to construct the advancement of the voice of her adolescent characters. Tone and imagery are among the essential devices of structure to establish the voice of the protagonists. By the means of examining the imagery and tone in Anderson’s text, multiple examples of segments of the subject matter within the novel will discuss the development of the protagonist, Tyler’s voice.
Tone can be academic, informal, affectionate, dignified, bleak, cheerful, deliberate, paradoxical, patronizing, or many other imaginable approaches. The tone being a literary synthesis of the composition, that presents the mindset toward the character and the audience in a literary creation. A perfect illustration of tone in Twisted would be in chapter fifteen "Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.” (pg.44). The one of this example is metaphorical; Anderson uses the …show more content…

It attracts to personal attributes to expand the viewer's comprehension of the text. The imagery within the text is a writer's purpose of expressive and illuminating expression to create an atmosphere to the author's work. One of Anderson’s examples of imagery would be in chapter twenty-six “Brain: You do not want this. Hormones: Dude, this is EXACTLY what I want. B: No, not like this—she is wasted…” (pg. 124-125). The author uses imagery to have a “conversation” between the protagonist, Tyler’s hormones, and brain. Tyler is shown to have self-control by showing the absolute necessity of consent because if you are too drunk to drive you cannot give consent. Tyler’s hormones and brain are having a symbolic argument to “score” with Bethany Millbury, debating how she would react to Tyler’s

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