Quoyle Persuasive Essay

There are many types of people in the world, and with them, we all have different stories. Everyone tries to make their stories triumphant, but some lackluster. Individuals strive for success, but failure is inevitable. In this passage the narrator introduces Quoyle, a distressed character, struggling to succeed. He barely survived childhood and camouflaged throughout the rest of his life. Such person as Quoyle, he has struggled throughout his life and is incapable of changing his ways. The author from the novel incorporated language to give a vivid impression of Quoyle as an unappealing and shameful failure. Throughout the passage, the author uses mass amounts of diction and imagery in order to provide a vivid impression of Quoyle’s personality and experiences. He gives us progression through Quoyle’s life, from his youth up until now, and how his experiences shaped him. Quoyle is described as someone who “camouflaged torment with smiles and silence” and “ate prodigiously, liked a ham knuckle, buttered spuds.” The author also uses words like Hive-Spangled and Freakish to …show more content…
The author has tried to show the unpleasant appearance of Quoyle by stating “The monstrous chin, a freakish shelf jutting from the lower face”. Using a hyperbole and metaphor to show his ugliness, embarrassment and chagrin. In addition to all his flaws, Quoyle is also not attractive. His brother called Quoyle “snotface, Ugly Pig, Warthog, stupid, Stinkbomb, greasebag”. He was not favored by his family and everything “stemmed from Quoyle’s chief failure, a failure of normal appearance”. The author also used similes to show his inability to succeed, by stating “failures multiplies like an explosion of virulent cells”. The author gives a vivid impression of Quoyle as a failure throughout all the figurative languages. He is unattractive and can never