Copy a passage that you find particularly beautiful or powerful. What devices (imagery, figurative language, etc.) did the author use to make an impact on the reader?
Not necessarily a passage but there was this sentence I thought that was really powerful. “Where is Lindberg?” On page 301 the chapter changes into somewhat of a diary format which is marked chronologically by the date. It started off with Winchell funeral and FDR writing his most unforgettable speech, also foreshadowing, “Where is Lindberg?”(Roth,301), I believe this was a figurative sense, where FDR was questioning the public as to why Lindberg, their president is almost never around and not addressing to the public, just staying in the shadows, and not talking to the public as much who very faithfully elected him as their president. Later on, he finally gives a speech and disappears into thin air on his airplane. Strange. Furthermore, it sheds a great deal of light on the character that Herman is. People say that when a person makes choices in hardships or at their worst time …show more content…
This idea is even noted right in the book, "Before that night, I 'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy." (pg. 293) Taking everything into account, both characters Herman and Alvin accuses each other for being ungrateful or just being the main root of their problems. This is ironic in some aspect because Alvin was the one who decided to go to war and Herman tried to explain Alvin not to do it because it’s dangerous and he might not come back. I think this is a good lesson learned for the reader at this point because it shows that no one is to blame but ourselves for the decisions and consequences that occur in our
Not necessarily a passage but there was this sentence I thought that was really powerful. “Where is Lindberg?” On page 301 the chapter changes into somewhat of a diary format which is marked chronologically by the date. It started off with Winchell funeral and FDR writing his most unforgettable speech, also foreshadowing, “Where is Lindberg?”(Roth,301), I believe this was a figurative sense, where FDR was questioning the public as to why Lindberg, their president is almost never around and not addressing to the public, just staying in the shadows, and not talking to the public as much who very faithfully elected him as their president. Later on, he finally gives a speech and disappears into thin air on his airplane. Strange. Furthermore, it sheds a great deal of light on the character that Herman is. People say that when a person makes choices in hardships or at their worst time …show more content…
This idea is even noted right in the book, "Before that night, I 'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy." (pg. 293) Taking everything into account, both characters Herman and Alvin accuses each other for being ungrateful or just being the main root of their problems. This is ironic in some aspect because Alvin was the one who decided to go to war and Herman tried to explain Alvin not to do it because it’s dangerous and he might not come back. I think this is a good lesson learned for the reader at this point because it shows that no one is to blame but ourselves for the decisions and consequences that occur in our