New ways to write effectively!

In this lesson we looked at how to write an effective introduction and to help us we used more complex words and stated the devices which the writer employs such as metaphor, juxtaposition and vivid imagery. Also any sentence with more detail in them.

We looked at not so good sentences and why that was, it was because they were writing in the passive and the best way to write is to do it in the active because it makes it sound more interesting and looks better. Also, other ways to say ‘this creates tension’ such as this metaphor forces the reader to consider what life was like…

Lastly, we revised some of the devices and the most common ones we need to know.  

 

1984

In the first two chapters of 1984, George Orwell establishes the cruelty of the government therefore setting the scene and letting us get to know a character who is Winston.Orwell used Winston as the eye of the cruelty, so we learnt a bit about Winston and the happening. In the first chapter Orwell establishes the book’s dark mood with brutal and physiological cruelties. Orwell’s main point is to stress the fact that the government are watching everyone. In this book there are people called the thought police who detect what they are doing. Orwell brings the book alive in the first chapter when Winston has gone against the government writing ‘DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER’, and there the door starts to knock. 

The anticipation of what it is going to be, gives the book that dramatic premise. With the arrival of Ms Parson, his neighbor, creates a sense of Winston’s guilt and the excitement as to why Ms Parson was there. But only needing help with the pluming gives me as the reader a wanting to read on because if that is what has happened in two chapters. What will happen with 20 chapters. Also in the end he has a dream of a man called O’Brien about meeting in a place with no darkness. Which leads us onto the forthcoming future for Winston which may be dark or bright.

  

A capsule of time

In this short story, the writer has gone into real detail to get all the facts and this use of knowledge made the story more enjoyable because I was able to relate to it. The scene is at Wellington College where I go to school. My most enjoyable bits was when he left it on a cliff hanger of the chapters creating me wanting to read on like in the second last chapter a mother who was not there, says ‘You took your time’, which I though was really powerful and kept reading on. The story is nicely put together and constructed well. And the ending, which he does throughout the story, a clam ending which again leaves the story on a edge