Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Ways Dickens Creates meaning.
Charles Dickens uses sentence structure, repetition, and word choices carefully
to portray different things. For instance, early on in the story Dickens emphasizes
Scrooge's "...Melancholy dinner [and] Melancholy tavern" to give readers a sense
of blandness and misery. Then, word choices that evoke actual physical responses
like when he described the "perfect grove [where] gleaming berries glistened." The
way that reads out loud is crisply picturesque and the literal sound of it on the tongue
truly speaks a picture of little scarlet berries dimpled and glittering with dew and having
little beams of reflected sunlight in the water droplets without actually having to say all that.
The Christmas Carol has a numerous selection of parallel structure that really packs
specific points into the readers head whether accentuating a scary, dirty, or happy scene.
There were many instances of parallel structure, repetition and word choices that stuck
out to me. I really liked Dickens style of writing and would really like to apply some of
his techniques of moving the story to my own writing. I also noticed varying themes going
along. Redemption being the main. I apprehensively observed the conflict being Man. Vs. Fate
and a little towards Man Vs. Self? Definitely leaning towards those two. Loved the book. Devoured it.
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I loved your blog post! I really liked how you said "word choices that evoke actual physical responses". That sums it up perfectly!! I loved the book as well. I liked all of the vivid description of scenes and situations. I would definitley like to read something similar to A Christmas Carol.
ReplyDeleteI would say that the conflict is more along the lines of man Vs. self than man Vs. fate. I also like how you said "word choices that evoke actual physical responses" it stood out in your blog.
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