Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Blog post day 3

In the story you are reading, Who is the author's audience? Can you connect with the authors style of writing? Explain.....

14 comments:

  1. In the story, Persepolis, the author's audience would be children and young adults. You can tell this based off of the author's past compositions (childrens books and animated films). Fans of graphic novels and comic book series could also be a targeted audience because of he consistent use of comic style illustration throughout the story.
    Yes, I can connect with the author's style of writing because I'm a fan of graphic novels and stories told through comic books. This story is told in that format therefore allowing me to connect with the author's style of writing.

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  2. In the story the author's audience is the readers and others who may be going through the same or similar thing.I believe that i can in some ways connect to what the author is saying and trying to tell from what i read so far!I can connect do to people not been there for me and me shutting out those who love me because of been afraid they going to hurt me and neglect me.I beginning to case way and run away into negative things when i can't see clearly whats in front of me(just like the the characters in the book ''True Notebooks'').At the end we all connect in some ways!

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  3. In the text “The Notebooks” I believe that the author sometimes is his own audience then the reader is the audience. I really connect to this style of writing because most of my writing tend to so the same thing. I may start of talking to the reader but then switch to a thought or felling. For an example sometimes I ask question to start off, like “what do you think about this?” All of a sudden I might bring out a thought and then have an answer to it.

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  4. In Persepolis Marjane's audience is pretty general. She delivers the story of her time and the political issues of her time through the window of her child like innocence. It's a personal account that involves the reader into the story. This allows her to portray her parents passionately. With this rhetorical tool she shows how the people of Iran really felt about certain political issues without filter. Helping to really understand the ideas and opinions behind the revolution.

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  5. In the book of true notebooks the author’s audience is the readers. The author connects with you. He makes you feel like you’re actually there. He puts you in where the characters are at what’s going through their minds explaining their emotions and thoughts. I can honestly connect with the author’s style. He places you there when the inmates are reading their stories or when something is happening.

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  6. Marjane audience is geared towards young adults and teenagers. She tells it like a story with a beginning, middle, and end. It’s chronological as well as biographically, by explaining her thought process during the various situations throughout the book. What makes this writing style unique is the fact that it is written like a comic book with pictures and thought bubbles. It helps to get a better picture of what she is trying to convey in the story she is telling and makes the reader pay closer attention for the fact that we can now see what she is talking about. It helps to better involve you and make it more interesting plus exciting.

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  7. In The Persepolis, the author audience is the readers. The author purpose for writing the story was so the readers understood where she's coming from. Yes I can connect with the author’s style of writing. She talks about her childhood memories as she is growing up in Iran.

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  8. In the book I am reading, True Notebooks, I feel that the author’s audience is teenagers in a way as well as a self-reflection. With that being said, I feel like he wrote this book to reach out to teens and the ones going through a situation such as this. It seems he wants my generation as well as the ones to follow to understand that what you do, if it is wrong, will always have its consequence. Or perhaps the author is trying to help his audience connect with these boys and their story, so we at least have an idea what they are going though. Most of us will never actually know. I also feel that what I’m reading is self-reflection upon him in a sense that he is going back to the time he did visit those cells, and he did interact with the inmates. He has remembered what when on and is reflecting upon it, not only with his personal response but included phrases and passages the juveniles wrote as well. For me it is much easier to connect with the style my author wrote in because it interests me. Reading a regular book that has black words on every page tends to get boring to me if I do not have the patience. However, by Mark included passages that he personally read from the inmates, it immediately makes me want to read on. I connect with this book on a great reading level not so much with what it is initially about.

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  9. In True Notebooks, I feel that the author is trying to explain his story to the reader, yet the juvenile’s are explaining their stories to him. It is a story with in a story. This style of writing is making the story more interesting to read. There are view points from every end of the book. We see how mark struggles to make a decision to work in the jail, how his co-workers and sister judge him, and how the juvenile’s treat him. Then we also get to acknowledge the emotion of the boys in mark’s writing class. It is easy to connect when we get to know each character.

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  10. My story is True Notebooks, Marc's audience is other teachers or journalist. I can connect with the author because he is a detailed writer. His style helps me visualize the setting of the juvenile center and the 4 students. His style of writing keeps me entertained and interested in his story. Me being a poet, I am a big fan of visualization and detailed stories.

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  11. I believe in Persepolis,Majane's audience is her family members and her own imagination.I think that she is talking to her family members mostly because of her wants to be apart of the revolution and her parents saying she can't. I also think she he audience is her imagination because when she talks to g-d,she is addressing him which is all in her head. I can somewhat relate to the authors style of writing by her use of addressing certain people and also the use of mostly first person. I feel that for the most part she is addressing herself because of the use of first person.As well as when she is using her imagination and talking to g-d.Sometimes keeping your thoughts in your mind is better then saying them out loud.

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  12. The author's audience is a self reflection about Marji's life. Marji is retelling her story in the Middle East and how things changed. The different social classes in their society and the king is unjust. Marji's culture wants to get rid of the king because he is not a good king. There is a war going on and their own kind are killing each other.
    I can connect with the author's writing because its a flashback on her life and what she and her family went through. I feel while reading this book that the author is telling me her story face to face. The way she writes its like you are there with her experiencing the demonstrations and the war with her. Even though, she is a little girl she still wants to make a difference and stop all the violence. You can understand her pain and how she is outspoken sometimes. Marji is growing up in a culture where she doesn't understand the politics of why things are happening. It is like you can connect with how her family struggles with hard times. As long as they have each other they can accomplish anything.

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  13. I honestly believe that the author’s audience could be a variety of people as far as their gender, age, ethnicity, cause in the book that I’m reading it really is directed towards teenager up to 18 in my personal opinion. Because the base setting is at a juvenile hall where the age limit stops at 18 years of age, although it could relate to everyone because everyone was a teenager at some point in their life. Overall, I strongly believe the author’s main attraction of audience would come from teenagers but you, me, them, everyone can actually relate.

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  14. Mark’s audience is us. He is telling us how the Juvenile Hall looks and what the inmates looks like and how the people that work there look. He is also telling us what his students wrote so it seems like we are really there listening to his student’s writings. He tells us how he feels with the kids in the room with them and what he really responds to their writings. Sometimes I feel like I’m really there listening to their writings. When Mark describes the guards and how they are fighting because of nachos or how the athletic, broad shoulder, and powerful chest and arms man really looks like sitting behind that desk.

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