‘Why not’ a piece of prose, Taking us through and analysing the significance of a photograph and what affect it has on us. Throughout the prose, the author used multiple language features to show us readers their thoughts and intentions. This was to get us, readers, really thinking about the things/people we value and cherish in life. The author emphasised this the most through the language features, personification and metaphor.
The author used the language feature personification to have a greater effect on the readers. To show them the real meaning behind having photographs verse living in the moment. By using personification through the piece of prose, the author was able to bring the photographs to life “I could tell him about the way the houses wink at me in the orange light”. This gives the effect that the houses are alive, and are able to wink at the author while they take the photograph of them, it brings the objects to life. As if the readers were there at that moment when the photo was being taken. It shows how you are able to reflect back by looking at the photographs later in life. To be able to remember the good memories you had at that place at that time Rather than having to remember it from memory. How the pictures stay so perfect but as over time your memory slowly fades and won’t be able to remember things quite the way they happened. How you won’t be able to describe them with so much description “About the sun-soaked grass, the tiny blades dancing in their sparkling dew dresses”. With utilising personification throughout the prose, it gives it a happy, calm emotion and mood to it. Showing us readers, how the author really appreciates taking photographs. To be able to look back at the photos and be taken back and be able to semi-relive that time. Reminding them What they saw and what happened there, compared to their sibling who likes to live in the moment and appreciate it then and then moves on.
Throughout the prose, the author utilised the language feature metaphor to emphasise the effect of having a photograph. “When I’m old, when my face is tissue-paper tearing with every smile, I won’t have to grasp frantically at my memories as they fall away like sand in an hourglass”. By using this metaphor within the prose it reinforces the importance that a photograph actually can have to us. How overtime we slowly perish like how paper-thin tissues slowly rip and disintegrate. Slowly growing older with time, and as time goes by our memories slowly perish. Images in our heads that we thought would stay there forever vanish with age. The Photos on the other hand still stay the same, perfect. When we look back we can be reminded of that place/time/people rather than digging and searching in the back of our brains and not being able to show the validity of what happened. Whereas you can show people photographs and be able to show them that amazing sunset you saw, or the holiday you went on. With the author entangling metaphors throughout the piece it shows how time really does pass by very quickly and just slips away through our fingers.
This piece of prose takes us through the author’s intentions of enjoying the simple things in life. This is because you never quite know when they will end. The author showed the readers their purpose of the prose though the use of language features, personification and metaphor. The utilisation of these two language features brought to life the value of having a photograph making it come alive. ” I’d tell him that this Tuesday morning is sitting in my pocket now, safe from time”, to be able to look back and reflect on that moment of time and all the feelings and emotions that went with it. It made not only myself but all readers think deep and hard to what they really cherish and appreciate in life. For myself it made me think about my family, and how much they really mean to me. As for the author, on the other hand, they cherished taking photos to be able to hold onto every memory, every place, every person that really means the world to them.
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Add Yours →Hi Bobbie,
Make sure you refer to it as a piece of prose, rather than a short story.
Look to use punctuation for greater effect, rather than having huge run-on sentences.
Most importantly, look to use your time well – get as much down as you can, so that you have more time to edit and polish it.
Continue to use August 7th’s feedback, as well as:
– read over your sentences to ensure they make sense
– look to UNPACK the language features. There are two things to consider when analysing them – what is being said and what is meant. You are able to reflect on what is meant, but you need to go further on what is being said. Work on describing the actual EFFECT of the houses winking, etc.