https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0 en-us 2019-03-28 10:06:48 UTC 2019-05-08 18:40:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/346875989 The extract "Swamplandia" by Karen Russell focuses on the relationships between children and their parents and the significance of a close connection. Through the use of vivid imagery, similes and exaggerations, Russell portrays the main character, Hilola Bigtree, as an idolizing figure for her children, who admire her not only for her talent as a performer, but even more for her role as a mother,emphasizing the two sides of her character. ]]> 2019-03-31 11:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/346875989 valentinarocca0 https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/346941599 The extract from "Chapter 12" written by Charles Yu is a narration of an instance between father and son. The writer, through the use of syntax structure, paragraphing and language, presents the narrator's feeling towards the father, as well as his perception of him as the narration develops. In the extract we are also presented direct descriptions from the narrator regarding the events which helped him develop his perception and ideas. ]]> 2019-03-31 20:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/346941599 https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/347009061 In the poem "The Mechanist, Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano" Fairchild depicts a man teaching his daughter piano notes to explore the theme of comprehension and the relationship between the two family members. Through vivid imagery, structure, and sound the reader perceives the process as a way to self-identification, as well as the adjectives and nouns enhance the understanding of the characters' emotional responses to the action. The omniscient narrator focuses on details, which allows to portray the situation as a cascade of memories associated with learning piano, a common skill practiced among children. 

]]> 2019-04-01 03:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/347009061 https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/347029927 This passage by Charles Yu depicts a dialogue between father and son, highlighting the doubts which characterize the mind of a teenager through the first person narrative perspective. In this way, the reader is able to emphasize with the narrator. The boy is between childhood and adulthood, a moment where he is shaping the the perception of his father by observing and establishing a connection with him.]]> 2019-04-01 05:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/347029927 https://padlet.com/jana_pridalova/8bvvs6kfzny0/wish/347033158 The extract from “How to live safely in a science frictional universe” is set as a usual drive from the school to the house. Author presents reader the two characters scene, involving son who is skeptical towards father’s interest and father who is presented as characters with his own secrets. The dramatic effect of the extract is presented as son’s fear of his father’s anger as result of the skepticism towards father’s interests. However, at the same time reader is shown how narrators’ father is represented as character without any concerns about his interests. However, time narrator is staying skeptical as his father is not giving any answers neither to the him nor to the readers. Hence the author is creating a mystery surrounding the narrator’s father. 

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