Susan Shaw Style Style is a big element that makes up a story, but every author has there own special style that make up their novels . Susan Shaw shows her own unique style of writing in her two books Tunnel Vision and The Boy From the Basement. Shaw uses imagery, mood, and syntax to make up her particular style. The first style element Shaw portrays in her two novels is imagery, which she uses to help create a visual description to go along with the reading. Shaw uses a lot of imagery in the story Tunnel Vision. Liza, the main character, states, “My mother, the lady who ran up and down stairs like a maniac and who made four rhubarb pies for the school bake sale every fall and who laughed louder than anybody else I knew, she would die”
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Shaw gives the reader a visual description of what Liza’s mom means to her, and also how devastating it has must be to lose her mother. This quote helps tie Liza’s emotions into what is going on in her life. Liza also says, “He could be Gary Carmichael. He might not still be the man with the funny eyebrows. They could have traded places when you weren’t looking” (Tunnel Vision 100). The reader gets a description of what Gary Carmichael, the bad guy, looks like, and the fear that he puts inside of Liza. As a reader, you can see how much fear Liza has when faced against Carmichael because of how much he has done to her and her family. Also, in the novel The Boy From the Basement imagery is also used a lot throughout the novel. The main character, Charlie, says, “I can’t see the spider, but her rasping breath-Ihmm!-Ihmm!-laces through the wind’s roar” (The Boy From the Basement 13). Charlie is scared to death of this imaginary spider that keeps coming to reality. The reader can see how scared Charlie is, and how it is effecting him psychologically. Shaw is using imagery here to put an image inside of the reader’s head, so they can see how Charlie is feeling and reacting to
Shaw gives the reader a visual description of what Liza’s mom means to her, and also how devastating it has must be to lose her mother. This quote helps tie Liza’s emotions into what is going on in her life. Liza also says, “He could be Gary Carmichael. He might not still be the man with the funny eyebrows. They could have traded places when you weren’t looking” (Tunnel Vision 100). The reader gets a description of what Gary Carmichael, the bad guy, looks like, and the fear that he puts inside of Liza. As a reader, you can see how much fear Liza has when faced against Carmichael because of how much he has done to her and her family. Also, in the novel The Boy From the Basement imagery is also used a lot throughout the novel. The main character, Charlie, says, “I can’t see the spider, but her rasping breath-Ihmm!-Ihmm!-laces through the wind’s roar” (The Boy From the Basement 13). Charlie is scared to death of this imaginary spider that keeps coming to reality. The reader can see how scared Charlie is, and how it is effecting him psychologically. Shaw is using imagery here to put an image inside of the reader’s head, so they can see how Charlie is feeling and reacting to