Reflecting

In the book The Fault in Our Stars the main character Hazel Grace has lung cancer and has been suffering for a long while now. She is constantly in and out of the hospital for treatment and death scares that she could die very soon. Hazel is well aware that she will not be living a normal teenage life or a very long life for that matter due to her sickness. More towards the beginning of the book she seemed very bitter and cold about it, who wouldn’t, but now that she is hanging around this very easy going boy who she really is starting to like a lot she seems more open to talking about it and she occasionally even makes little jokes here and there about it. In my blog posts I’d like to pride myself in doing a lot of describing and trying to express how Hazel comes off, how she acts in certain situations and also how she seems to be changing as the book goes on.

The purposeful diction and syntax I think I used in my writing to enhance the characters voice are low/informal diction because I feel it is easier to connect with your reader if you use a little more informal dialog because that is how people tend to feel more comfortable reading.

Next I feel that I use abstract/concrete diction because Hazel Grace is always thinking and talking about death and if she will die. In one of the chapters she and Augustus talk about afterlife and all these made up things that you cannot physically touch or see. In other situations they discuss real life things that they believe will be with them after they pass away.

Lastly, I have used punctuation and sentence length in my writing to enhance the meaning of the book.  I think that adding something so simple like punctuation and a difference in your sentence length is so affective because it adds emphasis, and makes your reader pause and think about the meaning you are trying to create.