Does the Message Sink In? Most people grab a book to Just enjoy the "fun" In reading an adventure or a mystery. Many people don't understand the deep message an author gives In their stories.
What Is the author trying to say? Why Is the use of certain words so important? What is the message behind the exciting story? In "Pancakes" by Joan Bauer and in "A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote used diction to sink in a message to the reader. In "A Christmas Memory" the narrator says," The person to whom she is speaking is myself. I am seven; she is sixty-something..
..We are each other's best friends. She calls me Buddy, I am memory of a boy who was formerly her best friend.
The other Buddy died in the sass's, when she was still a child. She Is still a child. " (Lines 16-24). This example demonstrates the diction of the narrator when he describes his best friend. The word choice that the author used to describe the best friend gave the reader the thought of how close the friends were. The words "she calls me Buddy and "we are each others best friend" shows the reader the strong bond the two friends have for one another.
The use of Dalton message, both friends knowing that they are each other's best friend through thick and thin, gives the reader an inside story to what a true friendship looks like. Later in the story, Capote wrote, "But one way and another we do each year accumulate Christmas savings, a Fruitcake Fund" (lines 97-98). The author specifically used the word "accumulate" to illustrate how the friends saved up to buy ingredients for the fruitcake. The word choice here demonstrates the state of being the two friends were in through the tough time of he Great Depression; they have saved up every year, around Christmas time, to buy the ingredients.The use of diction sends a heartfelt message, of comprehending how the two friends lived during the time of the asses and asses.
The friends lived their life In sacrifice for a time of happiness and festively of making a fruitcake for Christmas. Towards the end of the story, capote uses Dalton to say. "Life separates us. Those who Know Best decide that I belong in a military school.
And so follows a miserable succession of bugle-blowing prisons, grim reveille-ridden summer camps. I have a new home too. But it doesn't count. Home is where my friend is, and there I never go. (lines 426-430). The use of word choice such as "life separates us", is used to show how the relationship of true friendship was broken of my life that separated the friendship between them.
Capote purposefully used "separate" to emphasize how the friendship was separated, divided; Capote did not broken or lost, because the friendship was still there. The use of diction sends a message of understanding that Buddy Is looking back at his childhood from the perspective of an adult and owing that the friendship bond between the two friends was still there.In "Pancakes" the author uses different techniques to sink the message down to the reader. The character is reflecting, "The last thing I wanted to see taped to my Donation Mallory at Twelve-TNT arty In teen morning was a newspaper article entitled You a Perfectionist? " But there it was, courtesy of my mother, Ms. Subtlety herself.
" (Bauer 63). The use of word choice the author used was very casual and almost humorous. The diction used in this passage let the reader relate to the taxation as "casual talk".The use of humor in confessing her "perfectionism" was clever and well thought out by the author. The use of diction sent an eye catching message to the reader. The "casual or humorous" lets the reader relate to conversational story.
This is different from "A Christmas Memory' because this story has a conversational and present point of view. "A Christmas Memory' consists of sinking the message in by letter the narrator tell the story in the past. Later in the story Bauer wrote, "l looked out the window. A lump caught in my throat. A large tour bus pulled to a grinding halt.I watched in horror as an army of round, middle-aged women stepped from the Peter Pan bus and headed toward the restaurant like hungry lionesses stalking prey.
" (Bauer 67). The author used diction to describe the horror that "caught a lump" in Sill's perfectionism. The diction used for "grinding halt" was used to emphasize the suspense leading to the shocked expression of Jill. Bauer used the term "Peter Pan bus" which is a bus operated by one of the biggest motor coach companies in the northeast United States.
Her use of action was to not to Just use a simple bus, but one of the biggest motor coach buses.The message of this diction sent to the reader was the crack of Sill's perfect, organized system. In the end, the narrator confesses, "Hugo was speed-pouring boysenberry syrup, spilling everywhere?but somehow it didn't matter anymore. It was good enough. And that, I realized happily, was fine by me. "(72).
The author used many detailed words to describe the chaos, for example, speed-pouring and spilling everywhere. The diction used for "realized happily' was a smart because her use of word choice et the reader know the "a-ha! Moment of Jill easing her perfectionism. The use of diction let the sweet, syrupy message sink in to the reader's mind. In the end, people never look deep into the word choice of the author, until they realize the message. Both authors wrote an incredibly important lesson to show the reader that no matter how the structure or setting is of a story; the diction is the key to the message sinking in. Joan Bauer and Truman Capote used diction in both of their messages to sink in their stories, "Pancakes" and "A Christmas Memory', into the minds of their readers.
