Sunday, January 22, 2012
Makenna Finch post 3
Sold emotes a very simplistic and objective tone with the syntax, imagery and details by presenting the readers with the hard facts and letting them speak for themselves. Sold's syntax is very precise and blunt and the sentences are not dressed up to be more exaggerated. The author doesn't use handfuls of fancy or dramatic adjectives and just focuses on the details and also uses very sharp and visual images. Shortly after Lakshmi arrives at the Happiness House and starts "working" the author writes "I hurt. I am torn and bleeding where the men have been" (125). These two sentences show how the syntax is very compact and instead of focusing on Lakshmi's feelings she tells the strait facts and in a way makes everything much more powerful by it's understated tone. The concise and short syntax and very candid details leave you with a very fresh and at the same time very moved feeling.
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Makenna,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with that. The author just hands over information and knows that it's harsh enough to speak for itself without her having to say so. Her syntax is definitely the main thing that develops the tone, but it seems like her diction is what makes for such blunt syntax. When you look at sentences in the book, it's clear that the author's word choices have been narrowed to a very simple vocabulary. That, along with the language of a hurt, traumatized girl, makes for her choppy syntax.
In my post, I agreed with how the sentence structures are to-the-point. I believe this is because the narrator hates discussing these horrible moments, and wants to leave them with only enough detail to show the horror. I might add that she also said, "In between, men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open. Then they disappear" (123). This passage shows how the author puts just enough details in the book for the reader to undertand what is happening without elaborating on the matter.
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