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Pages this week: 150
Pages this Semester: 1457
Book: South of Broad by Pat Conroy

Style Mapping

1. Anna Godbersen, the author of The Luxe, uses fancy, yet simplistic language which makes the story understandable. On the first page, she is introducing the life of the main character with descriptions that are simple, yet elegant making it seem more interesting. Leaning towards the denotative side, Anna uses her orante style to pull this story together.

2. Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, and Paolo Bacigalupui all have their own way of expressing themselves with their diction. Annie Proulx writes with a figurative but a familiar tone. She expresses her words with mostly common words, however; she is extremely descriptive in her works. "Gleaming with sweat" from the excerpt "The Mud Below" is a simple yet intriguing description. Cormac McCarthy writes with a completely different style compared to Annie Proulx. McCarthy expresses his words in a literal, poetic way. "Now comes days of begging, days of theft" is a line from Blood Meridian. His style in this excerpt shows his lyrcial ways of using words. Paolo Bacigalupui has a similar writing tone as Annie Proulx. He wrties figuratively with a touch of suggestiveness. His diction is more blunt rather than Proulx and has a little more edgineess to his words. "The staples pinged about the cramped metal passage like coins offered to the Scavenge God" is a line from his award winning book the Ship Breaker. In this short line, he shows his extrodinary writing style.

3. Kenneth Kamler, the author of the book Surviving the Extremes, write in a very scholary and elevated tone. He uses a lot of the type of language you would hear in a hospital room full of doctors. This type of language is very well educated and flanery. "In these cases, however, it is not the fractured skull itself that causes the most injury; as long as fragments aren't propelled inward, the breaking bone absorbs the shock and the brain survives."  Max Brooks, the author from the book World War Z, talks in a more blunt and common tone. "I had a devil of a ton finding the place. Officially, it didn't exist and therefore wasn't on any map." He writes in a very straight forward and literal manner. Explains things in little detail and lets you create your own image of the setting. It is journalistic as he takes a radical idea and writes about it in a reportive manner. Nic Sheff, the author of the book Tweak, writes in also, a very blunt and somewhat offensive way. "Back in high school it was just pot, maybe i'd do some acid and muschrooms on the weekend." His grating talk on life and drugs captures you into the book as its prey even though the content of his words is suggestive. Straight forward is almost the ideal word to explain the type of writing. His playful use with words is also to be accounted for.

I saw that a lot of blogs did something different. Although everyone examined diction and literature, many people deeply analyzed their piece of work instead of just looking at it.