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 The Terrible Wave I love how Marden Dahlstedt just makes the simplest thing sound so intriguing in her book, “The Terrible Wave.” I like how she writes with so much excitement. An example of something that is intriguing is how she said, “… shrouded in mist…” instead of, “…surrounded in mist…” That was a part when the main characters were floating on a farm wagon looking around town after the wave had hit, and they see some buildings shrouded in mist. She also makes things very exciting like, “… evil water surged about her,” This was when Megan was still in the floodwater and not yet on the mattress. But she could have said something dull like, “… the water was around her…” I also love how she gave fire some personification like “… tongues of flames, eating the sky.” Instead of “… fire in the sky.” I also love that Dahlstedt gives such detailed pictures just waiting to be created in the heads of people who read the book. She wrote, “...piles of boards and bricks that had once been houses.” This was when the group was looking around Johnstown after most of the characters recovered from the wave that had hit. To me it’s as if it were real in my head, and I can just imagine how awful the scene must have been, with all those jagged and broken boards, and the bricks that had been thrown around. I think Dahlstedt was right on when she uses descriptors to tell the reader how the character is speaking. In this example, Megan had just thrown up, “I’m all right now” she said faintly “I’m sorry.... Let’s go on....” The faintly part gives me such a better image of how Megan said that. Somehow the faintly part makes her seem sort of down or embarrassed or maybe even having a lighter tone than usual. I like all these examples. I like them because they seem so interesting and are a lot more detailed then how it could be. Dahlstedt also puts the perfect amount of detail in her writing, and I really don’t like reading books but every time I had to stop at a chapter, I’d wished I could read more. Article posted January 31, 2012 at 02:59 PM • comment • Reads 573 • Return to Blog List Add a CommentPosted Comments |
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