Fresh Bait is a short story based on a murder mystery of a hitchhiker’s dead sister. Although the hitchhiker was not mentioned to be a boy or girl but based on the way they act such as the hitchhiker being scared. For example when the hitchhiker stated “I closed my eyes and tried to breathe deeply, get control” – Page 24 (Clark, 2007)I believe the hitchhiker was a girl considering if the hitchhiker was a boy then they would have acted a lot tougher as a stereotypical male. Sherryl Clark was first born in New Zealand, 1956. She first started writing for fun. She first moved to Melbourne in 1981 where she attended a creative writing class at the Footscray Women’s Learning Centre which eventually lead to moving into the area of community writing and was an active member of Victorian Writing and Publishing Officer at Footscray Community Arts Centre for 6 years. It was only in 1996 that Sherryl Clark began …show more content…
Other techniques that were used include hyperboles such as when the unknown hitchhiker also stated “If I opened my mouth it would spill out like a torrent of acid” (Page 24). The story also used the techniques of imagery where the hitchhiker described what their sister looked like “then the memory of Melanie’s grey face with the bruises around her neck and the dried blood in her hair jumped up to haunt me”. (Page 23) The writer, Sherryl Clark also used hook as she kept the reader guessing. Overall the story is very engaging to its readers, especially for those who don’t like long stories. Fresh Bait was one of the best stories that was read out of all of the Top Stories 2. Fresh Bait was enticing to read and I would recommend reading the story. It’s simple to read but continues to make the story interesting for everyone to read. Throughout the story the reader was kept in suspense and keeps the reader
Sometimes people have to make a hard decision or choice in life when deep down they have to end up letting go of one of the options. In the story, “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” that was brought to life by W.D Wetherell, when the narrator had to make a hard choice of either letting Sheila go or the bass. There are many reasons the narrator had one of the hardest choices, including his immaturity as a teenage boy. The other main reason that it was a hard choice was that he wanted to impress Sheila, and since she didn’t like fishing he had to pretend to be someone he was not. Firstly, in the beginning of the story the narrator had an obsession with Sheila.
Journal 1 I am reading “the bass, the river, and Shelia Mant ” by W.D Wetherill. So far this story is about this boy who likes a girl that joust moved near bass boy. In this journal I will be questioning and As I read this story, I wonder if the narrator will pick bass or Sheila. It is possible that he’ll pick the bass.
I think he will go for the fish Will the narrator pick the Bass or Sheila? He may pick the Bass. Firstly, the boy might pick the bass is because it is his favorite past time. He has a lot of knowledge about fishing; he knows what a bass sounds like from a splash. Fishing is 2nd nature to him; every time he gets his boat
One piece of author’s craft that I think the author used intentionally is foreshadowing to get the reader predicting. This was used in many places, such as “‘What is that?’ she asked. ‘An old wallet of mine,’ he said. He showed it to her.
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Throughout the entire novel, the author’s use of literary devices is very clear. These literary devices, specifically similes and personification, help the reader get a better idea of the exact sounds and feelings which will allow them to know what it feels like to be there in that moment. “ I stood there, trying to think of a comeback, when suddenly, I heard a whooshing sound, like the sound you get when you open a vacuum-sealed can of peanuts. Then the brown water that had puddled up all over the field began to move. It began to run toward the back portables, like someone pulled the plug out of a giant bathtub.
Edward Bloor’s use of literary devices in the novel, Tangerine gives humongous description to Paul’s surroundings in Tangerine County. The metaphors and similes provides details that help create a mental image in your head as well as additional sensory details on what is happening in the novel. Additional figurative language might also give one clues that will help determine what might happen in the future otherwise known as foreshadowing. For example,
”(Wetherell 2) The narrator confronts internal conflict when Sheila said that she thinks fishing is dumb since the narrator enjoys fishing and likes Sheila so much. From the
such as her use of detailed imagery when describing how she resembled a wriggling beetle to put a comical image in the reader's mind. Her use of positive diction to make light of her serious situation, and her different uses of tone, help educate her readers about the difficulties of living with a
The author also uses a hyperbole to emphasize exactly how powerful this wind was. She described it as, “…Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him…” Hurston’s use of figurative language helped explain what all was happening during the hurricane. Another asset that Hurston used to prove one of the conflicts of the novel was
Cindy Droog, a middle-aged author, that started writing in the first grade. She continued writing and eventually went to the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University for her bachelor degree in journalism and public relations (Droog). Years later, she went to receive her master's degree in communications management at Syracuse University. Droog started out writing as a ghostwriter for “doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, hockey players, and others whose intelligence – or recurring head injuries – paralyzed their ability to communicate with the common folk” (Droog). But eventually, became sick of it and started her first weekly column, The Stay-At-Work Mom.
Wetherell’s story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”. The 14-year old narrator is facing a huge predicament. The boy is on a date with the girl of his dreams. The boy and girl are canoeing up a river in Vermont. The young girl, Sheila, has informed the narrator of her disgust of fishing.
In the beginning paragraph, he uses thriller words such as victim and mean to set up a picture in the mind of the reader that when he was behind this lady on the street, something was
This is shown when the characters in this novel speak out against a concept they know nothing about. Therefore, the literary terms an author uses can make an immense impact to the connections the reader makes to a novel, and help to shape a theme that is found throughout
(Fletcher 6 and 7) and then it stops and leaves the reader with suspense. At this point in the text, some people might interpret this to mean the hitchhiker could be a ghost and that the story takes place in real life. However, many people have thought that Adams was in limbo which means you're between Heaven and Hell and everything seems to go wrong meaning like if try doing something it always ends being bad. I think that the Hitchhiker in the grim reaper and he's trying to haunt Adams for something that he had done.