http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/ ramblings and musing of the GHS AP Lang class Wed, 02 May 2007 23:53:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Larry Anderson Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:01:30 +0000 http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/#comment-59 Dan Brown will leave out details that people would normally include but he will use small things that seem meaningless to move the plot. He will use speech to convey to clues to his mystery. Instead of focus on details he focuses on speech. The contrast is ddifferent than normal writers Dan Brown will leave out details that people would normally include but he will use small things that seem meaningless to move the plot. He will use speech to convey to clues to his mystery. Instead of focus on details he focuses on speech. The contrast is ddifferent than normal writers

]]> http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Jasoni Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:28:59 +0000 http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/#comment-54 the author, Richard Preston, writes in a 3rd person point of view and can be very desrciptive and but he writes pretty simply and tells the reader what the reader needs to know to understand the whole picture or situation the author, Richard Preston, writes in a 3rd person point of view and can be very desrciptive and but he writes pretty simply and tells the reader what the reader needs to know to understand the whole picture or situation

]]> http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Essence Carter Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:05:55 +0000 http://adkins.edublogs.org/2006/12/29/independent-reading-3/#comment-38 in the book i'm reading by Maxine O'Callaghan, she uses diction in the why that it is suspenseful [ironic considering that its genre is a suspenseful novel, eh?] its great that its suspenseful but its horrible at the same time because of her structure and organization. she will write about one thing happening and then switch to something else that is happening at the same time, yet it leaves you hanging about whats going to happen. its makes me feel ... arg! when i read it. however, i do like it compared to "older" books because more so in my generation and i can relate to it more so than the books that were written in the 1900s or something. in the book i’m reading by Maxine O’Callaghan, she uses diction in the why that it is suspenseful [ironic considering that its genre is a suspenseful novel, eh?] its great that its suspenseful but its horrible at the same time because of her structure and organization. she will write about one thing happening and then switch to something else that is happening at the same time, yet it leaves you hanging about whats going to happen. its makes me feel … arg! when i read it. however, i do like it compared to “older” books because more so in my generation and i can relate to it more so than the books that were written in the 1900s or something.

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