The idea of chaos and destruction is strongly present throughout the prose passage featuring the celebration that is being retold. The prose passage is about a celebration that originally starts outdoors, but gets interrupted by a destructive storm, causing the celebration to move indoors. The storm creates chaos and destruction through the celebration. This can be seen through the contrast of the content, the social customs and most prominently, the imagery used in the prose passage. In the prose passage, there is a noticeable contrast in the content. In the first paragraph, the “guests” (1) are celebrating “outdoors” (2) before the weather changes with “a single crash of thunder…” (2) and such strong winds that are capable of “knock[ing]
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In the first paragraph, imagery is used to describe the chaos and destruction of the storm such as the “single crash of thunder…” (2) that made the “earth tremble” (2), the powerful winds that “knocked over the tables and blew down the canopies…” (3) and the image of the “sky collaps[ing] in a catastrophic downpour…” (3-4). This strongly shows chaos and destruction created by the storm in the prose passage. In the second paragraph of the prose passage, the speaker describes the setting as a “cataclysm” (11) where the hostess “seemed to be everywhere at once…” (12) with “soaking wet” (12) hair and her once “splendid dress spattered with mud…” (13). This creates an image of chaos and destruction by listing the effects the storm has had. One of the best uses of imagery in the passage to create a sense of chaos and destruction is the mentioning of the “turbulent wind from the sea…” on line 2, the “shipwrecked mood” on line 6 and the house that was “as hot as a ship’s boiler room…” on line 7. These three quotes have to do with the sea and ships. Although the sea and ships are not typically viewed as chaotic and destructive things, when the speaker mentions the strong winds the sea is producing along with saying the mood has been “shipwrecked” (6) and comparing a house to “a ship’s boiler room…” (7), the speaker is associating those things with chaos
In the first paragraph, imagery is used to describe the chaos and destruction of the storm such as the “single crash of thunder…” (2) that made the “earth tremble” (2), the powerful winds that “knocked over the tables and blew down the canopies…” (3) and the image of the “sky collaps[ing] in a catastrophic downpour…” (3-4). This strongly shows chaos and destruction created by the storm in the prose passage. In the second paragraph of the prose passage, the speaker describes the setting as a “cataclysm” (11) where the hostess “seemed to be everywhere at once…” (12) with “soaking wet” (12) hair and her once “splendid dress spattered with mud…” (13). This creates an image of chaos and destruction by listing the effects the storm has had. One of the best uses of imagery in the passage to create a sense of chaos and destruction is the mentioning of the “turbulent wind from the sea…” on line 2, the “shipwrecked mood” on line 6 and the house that was “as hot as a ship’s boiler room…” on line 7. These three quotes have to do with the sea and ships. Although the sea and ships are not typically viewed as chaotic and destructive things, when the speaker mentions the strong winds the sea is producing along with saying the mood has been “shipwrecked” (6) and comparing a house to “a ship’s boiler room…” (7), the speaker is associating those things with chaos