What Is Didion's Ferocious Effect On The Santa Ana Wind?

With the use of emotion, Didion is able to describe the horrifying causes the Santa Ana has on human behavior through murders and horrible wind conditions. “On the first day

Didion personifies the wind as almost an unknown epidemic. Similar to when an unknown disease goes viral, all walks of life are affected. Didion clearly states how teachers, students, doctors, to physicists, to generally everyone becomes unhappy and uncomfortable during the winds. She does not write of how the wind caused fire to ravage the shrublands, but she writes of the symptoms it inflicts on the people. Didion mentions all the after effects of the wind and the harm it can do like inflict paranoia. She mentions how the fear-stricken victims of southern California are paranoid like her neighbor that refuses to leave the house and her husband who roams with a machete. Didion’s personification of the wind focuses on a fearful and distant light.

Didion’s choice of words is one of the most important contributors to the mood she develops in her essay about the Santa Ana Winds, and gives the essay ethos as well. Although she does not use too much personification, the little she does use about the wind “whining down the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes” sets up the rest of her description of what the winds do in a way that almost makes it seem that the wind is a malevolent being, set on scorching the mind and surrounding environment. Her use of adjectives unquestionably reverberates her negative opinion on the winds; she blatantly calls them “bad,” and “malevolent.” The ominous, uneasy description of the heat and weather support that view.

Along with sensory details, Rawlings’ practical use of figurative language largely helped her to win a Pulitzer Prize for her astonishing work on this novel. The figurative language used, aids in bringing life to the story through devices such as comparisons and exaggerations. For instance, on page six, the novel reads, “The bubbling spring would rise forever from the earth, the thin current was endless”. The spring cannot rise forever and the thin current can end. Here, the author uses hyperboles to exaggerate the details, and to show the importance of the ideas.Another instance, is on page two hundred and twenty four when the sound of the air is brought  up, “A great roaring sounded in the distance. All the bears in the scrub, meeting at the river, might make such a roaring”. This description uses a simile, comparing the wind roaring to the sound of a group of bears. This allows a better awareness of the degree of the noise. Rawling could have said the wind roared but by adding the detail, she creates more depth in her portrayal of Jody’s experiences. On page two hundred and twenty four there is another example of figurative language, where personification being used, “In the night, a gust of wind moved through and slammed both doors”. This is very helpful in Rawlings creating a great piece of work because it breathes life into the wind and in that moment gives the

When describing the winds, Didion paints a somber and gloomy picture. “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air… some unnatural stillness, some tension,” starts the article off with the image of Los Angeles people in a sense of stillness or tense. Didion continues by explaining that the uneasiness is because the Santa Ana winds have arrived. Through the pictures that Didion paints, the reader begins to see the Santa Ana winds as an uncomfortable atmosphere. She then adds, “Blowing up sandstorms out along Route 66… we will see smoke back in the canyons, and hear sirens in the night,” further proving the uneasiness that comes with the somber image of Los Angeles. “The baby frets. The maid sulks,” she adds, painting the distressing image of the effect that the Santa Ana has on people. Didion, in trying to show the craziness associated with the Santa Ana

It again reinforces the thematic concern of the overall theme. The tone does not change throughout the poem suggesting the constant constraint the poet felt. This is created by words such as "rage", "smouldering" and "furious". Which again highlights the irritation the poet herself felt due to the lack of freedom on the poetic inspirations. Therefore, the tone creates a sense of "life as bleak".

The use of chaotic adjectives to personify the boisterous wind helps create a violent environment which symbolizes the chaos that will follow. Petry’s description of Mrs. Hedges’ eyes as “still and as malignant as the eyes of a snake” also help create a violent and malicious mood. The dominant

This time I will be talking about the tone. The overall tone is supposed to be ominous as shown by the storm mainly. Generally a stormy background is supposed to cause the image in the reader's head that it is gloomy and scary. It almost is there like you can’t see what is happening, like anything could sneak up on you. In a storm you can’t hear what is creeping up you cause the sound of the rain covers it and you never know

In the novel A WindStorm in the Forests, John Muir uses descriptive language to his advantage to show the beauty within the wind. He accomplishes this by appealing to the senses; particularly sight and sound are emphasized in this passage. When the winds are in motion their subtle miracles present themselves. Additionally, Muir makes metaphors referring mentioning the winds are Godly because they are in such unison with the forests they appear. The use of visual descriptions tell the audiences about the winds.

In the beginning of the short story, a light wind is mentioned and becomes more severe throughout Young Goodman Brown’s journey into the forest. The wind brings about change and chaos

In Adrienne Rich’s “Storm Warnings,” the progressive structure details the storm’s advancement, the imagery illustrates the surrounding environment, and the calm diction presents the speaker’s state of mind, depicting an actual storm as it nears and the metaphorical turmoil the speaker is experiencing. People hear storm warnings, however, as the storm unfolds, one can merely brace themselves since the storm is inevitable and light hope within them.

Throughout this story readers are told how dark and gloomy the weather has been. The author uses Imagery to put a clear picture in the reader’s mind. For example, Gabriel says “The world has been sad since Tuesday.” (Marquez, 431) Marquez

It is in Richs ‘Storm Warnings’ that the male prerogative is dominating in the world in which Richs speaker lives. Humans cannot control the forces of nature, and especially the society in which we live. Rich ensures that we witness a helpless and destitute speaker, of who can only “watch” the storm outside from the “closed window”, passively surveying the increasing wind and although wiling to change is unable to as the outside element of the wind, being society, is stronger than herself. This suggests a feeling of being barricaded in a house which is under attacked by the ferocity of the storm. The speaker claims she is only able to “draw the curtains”, although her actions can neither stop the “walking winds” nor provide protection against it. In referring to the wind as “walking”, the poet personifies the wind and does this in order to offer an already establish mood to the reader by giving an inanimate object a human characteristic. The ‘W’ sound at the start of many words in the first stanza emphasises the increasing presence of wind, made further apparent due to this alliteration. Her speakers’ personal silence is further empathised in ‘Jerusalem’ as the first person speaker’s internal

“Someone’s parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of song“ This is one of my favorite lines throughout this book. When I read this line, it practically overwhelms you with a sense of dread. You can feel how the story will unfold in front of you, and how intense the emotions will be. Not only is “The Name of the Wind” full of excitement, but also it gives the characters a depth and submerges the reader in them.

When asked to recall the day Santiago was murdered, “Many people coincided in recalling that it was a radiant morning… but most agreed that the weather was funeral, with a cloudy, low sky” (Marquez 4). The jubilant connotation of the world “radiant” depicts the weather in an overly positive light; not only was the sun shining, but the sky seems celestial with “radiant” light. Thus, those who viewed the weather as positive did not just agree with this murder, but rather celebrated it, as it was in the name of honor. However, the analogy comparing the second interpretation of the weather to a funeral directly associates the bad weather with a death. The stormy, dark weather alludes to the negative feelings associated with it, thus demonstrating how the people that did not agree with this murder mourned the loss of their fellow villager, and viewed the murder negatively.