Secret” Story One: “Our In summary, this story is about a girl and a boy who have met one day in the city and find themselves in a room making love. The story focuses on the inner dilemma between the boy who isn’t interested in the girl who he sees as just an innocent friend, while the girl, who is lonely and needs to love without complications”, is vying for him to pay attention to her and love her “make the way she needs. In the end, a more profound aspect of the story is revealed as a sort of underlying theme: civil war and its effects like torture. Because this story is about love and the issues of civil war, the word choice is contrasted with and words. Words like sugar, kissed and love” are contrasted with “hard” “soft” “caressed, words like whips, tortured, straps and bogged”. “thorns, Although the word choice reflects the contrasting nature of good and bad things, taken in context they paint a different picture. The tone of the piece is of forged love. Phrases like “he tried to make love to her”, retreated”, vulnerable people” and laughed, almost with “he “two “he a sob” show that they are trying in vain to be in love. The characterization of both the girl and the boy are shown through these phrases, as they are the inner dispositions of the characters. The boy is struggling to like the girl because he is dealing with this inner turmoil and so the fact that he is trying to make love to her shows that he’s dealing with something greater. A sense of place is also created from this diction and word choice. A peaceful room, where the story takes place, changes from a place of love-making to a place of turmoil as the characters evolve emotionally. The point of view in this story switches from the boy to the girl without paragraph changes or any other notification. One sentence will contain the boy’s perspective and then the
Story One: “Our Secret” In summary, this story is about a girl and a boy who have met one day in the city and find themselves in a room making love. The story focuses on the inner dilemma between the boy who isn’t interested in the girl who he sees as just an innocent friend, while the girl, who is lonely and needs to “make love without complications”, is vying for him to pay attention to her and love her the way she needs. In the end, a more profound aspect of the story is revealed as a sort of underlying theme: civil war and its effects like torture. Because this story is about love and the issues of civil war, the word choice is contrasted with “hard” and “soft” words. Words like “caressed, sugar, kissed and love” are contrasted with words like “thorns, whips, tortured, straps and bogged”. Although the word choice reflects the contrasting nature of good and bad things, taken in context they paint a different picture. The tone of the piece is of forged love. Phrases like “he tried to make love to her”, “he retreated”, “two vulnerable people” and “he laughed, almost with a sob” show that they are trying in vain to be in love. The characterization of both the girl and the boy are shown through these phrases, as they are the inner dispositions of the characters. The boy is struggling to like the girl because he is dealing with this inner turmoil and so the fact that he is trying to make love to her shows that he’s dealing with something greater. A sense of place is also created from this diction and word choice. A peaceful room, where the story takes place, changes from a place of love-making to a place of turmoil as the characters evolve emotionally. The point of view in this story switches from the boy to the girl without paragraph changes or any other notification. One sentence will contain the boy’s perspective and then the
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