How Does Jack London Use Vivid Language

The damages were catastrophic as houses lay in ruin and debris littered the roads. There were mudslides and fallen rocks that paved the roads and made them impassible for vehicles to get through. Ultimately by the roads being clogged up the response time by rescue workers and essential personal were hampered. This also made it exceptionally difficult for supplies to be rushed to the locations for the earthquake survivors. As some were digging and excavating for survivors they were being halted by aftershocks and falling debris from above. Approximately 8000 people were killed either by their houses caving in or by the other disasters this earthquake triggered. It was a real life tragedy that

An Earthquake that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale which lasted approximately 1 minute caused catastrophic damage to the City of Berkeley and LPHG. As a result of the Earthquake 31

Take this as an example: “Hellfires flushed the stunned hills. Even at this remote view, one imagined men with buffalo-haunches arms shoveling black meteor falls of coal into the open boilers of the engine” (Bradbury 46). This example contains two forms of figurative language: A personification, which is the hill (inanimate object) being stunned (human action), and also a metaphor, which is the coal being compared to black meteor falls. This changes the way this horror archetype is seen, because it is something readers wouldn't expect. Another example is a description: “His skin was suddenly a lizard's skin.

In the story ¨Lemon Brown¨, Walter Dean Myers use figurative language to develop the characters and setting. Here is one example that he gave use “made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.” This why it helps us understand the gloomy/eerie mood of the setting- it’s a dirty neighborhood, not well populated. My second example for this story is when his Father’s words, like the distant thunder, that now echoed through the streets of Harlem.

Today I began reading with the book called I Survived. The book is in 1906. It tells you about an earthquake about San Francisco.What happened was Leo and Fletch were in the basement and they saw stuff shaking and they knew it was an earthquake because they seen on the news and it was a warning and that’s why they went down to the basement.Bonnie was scared of the earthquake because she never been in an earthquake.

An example would be when Walls said "It was dusk when I got my first glimpse of it off in the distance, beyond a ridge. All I could see were the spires and blocky tops of buildings. And then we reached the crest of the ridge, and there, across a wide river, was a huge island jammed tip to tip with skyscrapers, their glass glowing like fire in the sun.” (Walls, 245)This quote describes her first sight of New York, a place far from home that would represent her fresh start, while emphasizing the beauty of this busy city. Jeannette Walls uses figurative language by using imagery and detail to express her first view of New York. She even used a simile, "-their glass glowing like fire in the setting sun...” to express how beautiful the city was. This lead to my reaction of joy, as this allowed me to imagine my presence there, along with her. It symbolized the change that would soon occur to Jeannette's life, and how moving from Welch to New York City would lead to the discovery of her inner self. This figurative language is a factor in establishing her style because it shows the mood and gives a sense of meaning to the reader. It led me to understand more about Jeannette, and the relationship between this single event and her childhood. In general, she is very descriptive when writing all throughout the memoir as she uses symbolism, imagery, metaphors, similes, etc. and this one quote demonstrates many of those put together. She also uses a conversational tone that results in the feeling as if the reader was hearing this dialogue and keeps their attention. Both of these automatically allowed for me to connect with her writing, and have an emotional reaction to it. Often throughout reading the memoir, I felt miserable about how Jeannette was raised, and it led to the result of tears dripping down my face, as I couldn’t help it

On August 24, 2014 a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in and around the city of Napa, CA. The earthquake killed one person and injured over 150 people. And these people were treated at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa [1]. More and more earthquakes occurred on this earth. So this grasps people’s attention.

“All of a sudden, there was the shift of an earthquake. People ask, "Did you hear a boom?" No. The way I can best describe it is that every joint in the building jolted.. We all got knocked off balance. One guy burst out of a stall buttoning up his pants, saying, "What the f*?" The flex caused the marble walls in the bathroom to crack.”

For example, Bradbury is explaining when the hunting group goes back in time. ¨The Machine howled. Time was a film running backward,¨(p. 4). The figurative language spices up the story and compares the event to things that you can imagine. Later in the story, the T-rex comes out and there is a terrifying description.

A well-known Gilded Age author of satirical pieces, Mark Twain, in his text “Dreams Dissipated”, argues the elite and other influential groups he despises, should not be idolized by the public. Twain’s purpose is to reveal the true intentions and behavior of these groups at the face of tragedy in order to stop the public from aspiring to be like them or seek guidance from them. He adopts a connotative tone for his audience who may be unaware of the immoral behavior the elite display during the “great” earthquake in San Francisco. Twain supports this claim by first referring to a tragic event using connotative diction to hint at the animal-like behavior of these groups, then he illustrates a chaotic scene and the ill-fitted reactions of the

In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the author uses figurative language to help the reader understand the tone of the story.The figurative language used in this sentence is personification to show how the setting. In this event A boy named Grey Ridley was walking down a street and saw the leafs blowing, “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the papers cars”. In other words this shows us that this street may be dirty, this may not be a good environment, and how bits of paper dancing around is a result of wind so it must be a cold fall weather. In addition later in the story Walter uses personification again to descriptive the mood. Grey and Lemon Brown are in a abandoned house and both of them hear a car pass by, “A car passed, its tires hissing over the wet street and it’s red tails lights glowing in the darkness.” The intention of the author was to help create the intense, creepy, and spooky mood for the reader. In

The San Francisco Earthquake written by Jack London is journal of his events throughout the devastating acts of God that hit San Francisco in 1906. (461-466)

Imagery is another important element which London uses to illustrate and emphasize his theme. In “To Build a Fire” Earl Labor sees the “mood and atmosphere, which is conveyed through repetitive imagery of cold and gloom and whiteness,” as being “the key to the story’s impact” (63). London does rely heavily on imagery to set the mood of the story, and in this way he draws a picture of the harsh environment that his character must endure. London uses imagery with such skill that the reader can almost feel the deadly cold of the environment and can almost hear the “sharp, explosive crackle” when the man’s spit would freeze in mid-air (119). Through the use of such vivid imagery, London guides the reader toward the realization of the story’s theme; the reader can visualize the man “losing in his battle with the frost” and therefor can picture man in his conflict with a cruel and uncaring universe (128). Symbolism is also an important element in “To Build a Fire”. David Mike Hamilton’s criticism, he says “the fire symbolizes life as does the white snow that falls at the beginning of the story.” He also views “the dark point in the midst of the stamped snow, foretelling the end of the fire, and thus of life” (2). I strongly agree with Hamilton’s criticism; “the dark point in the midst of the stamped snow” because it not only foretells the end of the fire but of the end of life itself.

This can be seen when London makes use of personification to describe the enemy “[swaying] the sky” and “filling the land with smoke,” as San Francisco’s soldiers represented by “safeguards,” “firefighters” and the city’s populace attempt to “retreat” and stop the “[flanking]” of the

On April 18, 1906, an earthquake occurred in San Francisco with a magnitude of 7.9. The earthquake was caused by the San Andreas Fault since the San Andreas Fault slip over a segment. The earthquake could be felt from Oregon to southern California. Buildings in San Francisco was destroyed by earthquake and fires. Fires started after the earthquake occurred and firefighters were not able to stop the fire because the water mains were broken and because of this, firestorms started to develop around San Francisco. Then, the San Francisco Mayor E.E. Schmitz called the U.S. Army troops to shoot anyone that is found looting. While the army was doing that, firefighters and U.S. troops tried to fight the fire by dynamiting the city to create firewalls.