Departure Sherwood Anderson Analysis

Authors choice writing styles based on one 's, personality, diction, tone, and point of view. “Departure,” by Sherwood Anderson is about a young man leaving home. The audience reads about his morning on the way to the train station, and people wishing him luck and saying their goodbyes. Hamlin Garland 's story, “Up the Coolly,” is about a man who comes home to find out that his family has completely changed, since the last time he saw them ten years ago, because work came first, and he never made it a point to visit home. Sherwood Anderson author of the “Departure,” chose to express her writing style by using narrative writing, while Hamlin Garland writer of “Up the Coolly,” uses descriptive writing, both building up tension and mystery.

Through Anderson 's use of narrative writing she told a story that made the audience wonder what will happen next. Narrative writings purpose is to tell a story. It uses dialogue between characters and the readers find out what the characters stories are. “When he got to the Main Street clerks were sweeping in the sidewalls before the stores, ‘Hey, you George. How does it feel to be going

Descriptive writing really goes into to depth about most of the aspects spoken about. The environment the main character, Howard, goes through, is reported well explanations of its aesthetic. The five senses are usually revealed in descriptive writing. The vocab words are commonly stronger than normal because of the illustration the author uses. “The dazzling sunlight flamed along the luscious velvety grass, and a shot amid the rounded, distant purple peaks, and streamed in the bars of gold and crimson across the blue midst of the narrower upper Coollies” (par. 2)”. This example tells about the sunset in one long sentence. The explanation is so well written, it makes the readers feel there. The use of the words velvety, luscious, and dazzling bring the audience more into depth of the story. The author uses sight for her sense in this