Santa Ana winds

Notebook Joan Didion characterizes the Santa Ana winds using various stylistic elements. Her essay characterizes the Santa Ana winds as Controversial, Theoretic, and Catalytic. The stylistic elements Didion uses to convey these views are Diction, Logos, and Metaphors. Joan Didion exemplifies diction conveying the controversial characterization early on in the first paragraph of the essay with the following quote. “We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks.” This fits the controversial characterization because Didion is saying that the Santa Ana winds make people feel as if though they are troubled and suddenly feel upset and angry. The next example of this is a quote that she actually quoted from someone else, it states. “On nights like that, “Raymond Chandler once wrote about the Santa Ana, “every booze party ends in a fight.” The quotes diction shows controversy by…

In the “Santa Ana” by Joan Didion, she describes the Los Angeles wind and the effect it has on people. Didion describes the Santa Ana winds as a very unpleasant time that people have to go through. She says, “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe…” (Didion 47). Her description of the Santa Ana winds is extreme and shocking. Didion says the winds make people depressed and sometimes the winds make people go crazy. The way the Santa Ana winds are described makes me not want to be…

The Santa Ana is known for their extremely strong winds. However, Santa Ana winds cause controversy from citizen living in Southern California and people who are planning to move to there. Either it is the benefits or the risks that are cause from the winds. Everyone has different perspective over Santa Ana winds. Linda Thomas and Joan Didion both have similar rhetorical devices although both authors approach the same subject in different ways. Linda Thomas, author of “Brush Fire” and Joan…

“Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas and “ The Santa Ana” by Joan Didion are both pieces of literature that intersect each other and give different views about The Santa Ana winds. These winds were named after the foehn wind of Austria and Switzerland. Which causes many side effects that are considered to be unpleasant. These winds are proven to be dry hot, strong and have a high speed, that brush through the deserts of California to the Southern part of this state. Due to their different views on this…

"Los Angeles Notebook" Reflection Essay On October 25, 2003, the cedar fire (cause of the Santa Ana winds) spread over 30 miles in less than 17 hours burning 5,000 acres per hour. By the time, it was over it consumed 418 miles, 2,232 homes and killed 14 people including a firefighter. It's true that things are only temporary, but the effects of the Santa Ana winds will always affect the people and the environment in such a negative and perturbable way, that along with living in the Los Angeles…

produced winds that are known as the Santa Ana Winds.because This wind comes from the desert and then travel around the Southern California area. The Santa Ana Winds are known for being hot and extremely powerful. Due to the conditions of these winds they bring destruction to the areas that they affect. In the passages “The Santa Ana” By Joan Didion and “Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas real life experience of the Santa Ana are revealed. Joan Didion and Lina Thomas both use imagery in their…

Memories and Emotions The work of fiction, The Things They Carry, can be categorized as either a novel or a collection of short stories. If one were to put it into a genre, or a sub-genre, then realistic fiction or a memoire would not be inaccurate. All the stories are told through memory; every chapter is a story told through the point of view of one of the men from the Alpha Company. Half as many chapters are about the surviving characters and them reliving their experiences, but the…

people in life make the best out of every bad situation they are in while others do not. In “The Santa Ana,” by Joan Didion, and “Brush Fire,” by Linda Thomas, both writers discuss their feelings towards the Santa Ana winds. Both Didion and Thomas are from Southern California where they are both well aware of the Santa Ana winds. The Santa Ana winds are dry winds that blow from northern to southern California. These winds are a major topic as there is controversy over if they are a good or bad…

In the story of Santa Ana by Joan Didion she dicusses many things about the scary winds that people experience. The Santa Ana winds is something that make the people act out of character, nauseous, very nervous and even depressed. A wind that is so powerful, people understand how everything changes when its time for the Santa Ana winds to come. According to an Israeli physicist, “During the ten or twelve hours which precede them, the air carries an unusually high ratio of positive and negative…

can. Anorexia does not just come to a person at a random time. There is usually always a source that sparks one 's interest. Believe it or not, most of these sources are found on the web that is observed by the whole world. The "10 Thin Commandments" are known by most participants of anorexia or an eating disorder. Some sites even include a pledge such as the "Letter to Ana" pledge that reads: "I pledge to fear food and to see obese images in the mirror, I will worship and pledge to be a…