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 The Terrible Wave Marden Dahlstedt’s writing is extremely descriptive. Marden Dahlstedt’s story is about Megan Maxwell who gets hit by the “Terrible Wave.” The descriptive part about her writing is that she writes as if she is Megan Maxwell. The words and quotes that Ms. Dahlstedt uses are so strong that she can paint a picture in my mind of what’s happening in the story. Ms. Dahlstedt’s writing is also unexpected and surprising. Ms. Dahlstedt wrote things that were completely unexpected such as this quote, “…they saw the head of a child. For one horrible moment, it looked as if it had been severed...” Although the wave was so strong that it could sever body parts, in the book it turned out that there was not a boy’s head there. It was a live, whole boy. Overall I think Ms. Dahlstedt is a very creative writer. She wrote of the Johnstown flood so greatly. In my opinion I think that the best quote in the story was, “The two rivers, swollen and choked with debris, churned towards the stone bridge.” That was the best quote because Ms. Dahlstedt used personification. I can imagine what the rivers look like in my head. Ms. Dahlstedt incorporates realistic writing into the “Terrible Wave” which makes her writing sensational. Article posted January 24, 2012 at 01:22 PM • comment (2) • Reads 139 • see all articles |
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