Mark Haddon writes with a lot of evocative description. Evocative description means to describe something with imagery, meaning that the reader can visualize what the author was writing as an image; he/she can imagine what the scene looks like. As seen on pg 131, we can perfectly image what is going on: "I counted the letters. There were 43 of them. They were all addressed to me in the same handwriting. I took one out and opened it. Inside was this letter….." The reader can perfectly image what it looks like, the 15-year old boy sitting there, with the big bunch of letters, looking surprised, and opening the first one he can grab. This is a perfect example of an evocative description.
In addition, there is a lot of clarity involved in big portions of Haddons writing. For example, on pg. 141, “Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time. And Father had lied about this." This shows that he really tries to clarify exactly what’s going on, how he feels, and what he thinks happened. This gives the reader the chance to completely understand why, what happened, and how. Haddon completely understands how to write with clarity.
1 comment:
Felix,
'a lot of' is almost always unnecessary. Avoid it.
Please use the present tense when you write about literature.
'perfect example'. Also try to avoid judgemental statements like this. Is it really 'the perfect, as in ultimate, as in impossible to improve' example?
However, you have clearly organised your ideas, you begin with a specific objective and you support your observations well with examples.
Keep it up.
Mr. Doubt
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