1. I think what is fresh in Cranes approach is the way we see the battle. We are seeing and hearing about the battle though the eyes of this young man who is referred to as the youth throughout the story. Though his single thoughts and feelings the story is told making it seem very real.
2. I think the paragraph from The Red Badge of Courage makes the reader feel like they are actually experiencing the events. I think this is because in the passage from the successes and failures of Chancellorsville there isn’t any dialog between characters like there are in the one from The Red Badge of Courage. Also what The Red Badge of Courage has he describes things like gun locks clicking making it easier to get a sense of what he’s sensing like the …show more content…
A day in the life of a high school student. Today was the day. It was the day that I had pictured in my head since I was a child. I remember the last day of 8th grade. A stream was flowing down out of the eyes of my friends. I would miss them. I thought that day was going to be the worst. Boy was I wrong. I was standing there that morning as my mother’s camera flashed. It felt as if it was going to be the last time she saw me before going off to battle. What was a 5 foot 9th grader to do in a world full of people tall as buildings? The whole ride I shook. I thought to myself what if I get trampled on? What if I get lost? We pulled up much too quickly. “Goodbye sweetie have a good day. Don’t be nervous.” I heard my mother say. “ I will mom.” I watched her walk away. Every steep she took further away from me I felt a deeper pit in my stomach. I was empty. There wasn’t the face of a single sole I knew. The nausea had set in at this point. The ring of the bell sounded and that’s when I knew it was time. “ good morning students.” The hardly recognizable voice came over the sound system. “We will report to our home rooms this morning, please report to your home rooms.” My feet felt like they couldn’t move fast enough. The rattle of my locker as I tried to open it was just embarrassing. I felt my face go pink as a senior aid who was helping the freshman opened my locker for me. Even more so I was embarrassed by the fact he had to read a little crumbled up piece of paper that
2. I think the paragraph from The Red Badge of Courage makes the reader feel like they are actually experiencing the events. I think this is because in the passage from the successes and failures of Chancellorsville there isn’t any dialog between characters like there are in the one from The Red Badge of Courage. Also what The Red Badge of Courage has he describes things like gun locks clicking making it easier to get a sense of what he’s sensing like the …show more content…
A day in the life of a high school student. Today was the day. It was the day that I had pictured in my head since I was a child. I remember the last day of 8th grade. A stream was flowing down out of the eyes of my friends. I would miss them. I thought that day was going to be the worst. Boy was I wrong. I was standing there that morning as my mother’s camera flashed. It felt as if it was going to be the last time she saw me before going off to battle. What was a 5 foot 9th grader to do in a world full of people tall as buildings? The whole ride I shook. I thought to myself what if I get trampled on? What if I get lost? We pulled up much too quickly. “Goodbye sweetie have a good day. Don’t be nervous.” I heard my mother say. “ I will mom.” I watched her walk away. Every steep she took further away from me I felt a deeper pit in my stomach. I was empty. There wasn’t the face of a single sole I knew. The nausea had set in at this point. The ring of the bell sounded and that’s when I knew it was time. “ good morning students.” The hardly recognizable voice came over the sound system. “We will report to our home rooms this morning, please report to your home rooms.” My feet felt like they couldn’t move fast enough. The rattle of my locker as I tried to open it was just embarrassing. I felt my face go pink as a senior aid who was helping the freshman opened my locker for me. Even more so I was embarrassed by the fact he had to read a little crumbled up piece of paper that