DRAFT --

During the January and February 2014 I enrolled
on a course which is focused on Literature.
It is focused on literature traits where
different several authors' styles are analysed.

Heneceforth, in addition with the two version of my book review, the following sections have shown some of the (personal) gist of the course,

Yours, most bookish,
M. A.

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Literature Terms for film/book review.

1. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ~ (Cornwall 1911-1954)
*Repetition -- it adds greater impact on specific actions
*Adjectives to describe the characters: frightened, exhilarated, remorseful?, confused, satisfied.
*Simile -- the use of like or as in order to create similarities between two things
*Personification -- A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea.
*Allegory -- In an allegory each character has both a literal meaning and a consistent
            metaphorical meaning. (Lord of the flies is an allegory. While the characters
            exist in their own right, they also represent abstract concepts.)


2. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene ~ (Oxford 1904 - 1991)
*Adjectives to describe the characters: childish, materialistic, spoiled?, silly, spiritual,
		manipulative, self-centered, loving
*Omniscient Narrator --
An ominiscient narrator knows all there is to know about the fictional world he describes.
He can enter the minds of all characters, describe events from a wide range of perspectives
and travel through time and space. It is also possible to have a limited omniscient narrator in
which the narrator seems to stand at the shoulder of his chosen character and view the world
from his perspective. It is most widely used narrative technique in modern fiction.


3. Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane ~(Northen Ireland 1940-)
*A text could be a blend of local and universal elemenets. Of these, local elements
are referred to local terms and expression in the text, on the other hand, the universal
elements are used to present a more general idea such as those in a strong bond
of friendship, first love, first kiss, etc.
*First-person narrators, who refer to themselves as 'I', tell the stories in which they are
directly involved. The first-person narrative is commonly associated with non-fictional
literary forms namely biography, memoirs or diaries.


4. On the Roady by Jack Kerouac ~ (American 1922-1969)
*Noun Phrases to describe the characters: his/her enthusiasm for life, his/her charisma and
 his/her ability to effect those around him, his/her self-confidence, his/her non-convencionalism
*Adjetives to describe the way a character speaks: Incoherent, articulate, spontaneous, colloquial,
sphisticated.
*Spontaneous prose. In order to capture the immediacy of momentary impressions and the blurred
and disorderly events occur, Jack Keruac wrote uninterruptelly and at top speed.
*Adjectives to describe the setting of the text: mysterious, exotic, hostile, welcoming, monotonous
*Adjectives to describe one of the characters: philosophical, naive, spiritual, materialistic,
condescending.
*Tone of the passage: Reflective, humorous, celebratory, philosophical, ironic.
*Adjectives to describe the rhythm of the passage: slow, rapid, hypnotic, disjointed, chaotic, flowing.

5. Jazz by Toni Morrison ~ (American 1931-)

*Synecdoche is the representation of the whole by a part.
"In no time at all he forgets little pebbly creeks and apple trees so old
they lay their branches along the ground and you have to reach down or stoop to pick the fruit."
By using pebbly creeks and apple trees images as a life in the country,
the text is conveyed by cleanliness and helthiness.
*Narrator's voice: friendly, intimate, formal, engaging, pedantic.
*Sound Features:
-Alliteration: steady stream
-Assonance:
-Onomatopoeia: dangling shoe, clipping down the street in heels.
*The musicality of the text: rhythmic, flowing, slow, hypnotic, upbeat?, sad
*Syntax is an important aspect of style. A writer's preference for long, short, simple,
complex, disjointed or well-balanced sentences will play a part in determining the overall
style of his writing.
Toni Morryson's syntax is characterised by a flowing, relaxed style. Many of her
sentences could be broken into shorter complete senteces by the introduction of full stops.
However, she prefers to create continous and flowing structures by loosely joining the
constitutent elements.


6. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwwod (Canadian 1939-)

*The passage contains many details about the house's furniture, food and Eleine's cloth
which makes the events that are recounted more realistic and credible.
*The effect that is represented by the use of the present progressive  tense
is to create an accelerating effect as if Elaine carries out the actions hastily.
*Although the events that are described in the text ocurred in the past, the narrator
uses the present progressive tense to describe them
to affect the stylistic narrative which makes it more:
poetic, dramatic, humorous, immediate, objective.

*The naive or innocent narrative s often a child whose understanding of the reality
he or she is describing s limited. Writers use naive or innocent narrators:
-to persuade te reader of a point of view without appearing pedantic;
-to highlight issues by describing them from the innocent perspective of a child
-to add humour or irony to their work


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TWO VERSION OF THE SKIN OF THE SKY (and draft premises) ARE PRESENTED BELOW

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FIRST VERSION

Would you please be very thoughful and meticulous in your revision?
To have a feedback is of such importance to improve my writing skills.


In the Part two the word count should met a range of 280-320 words.

Book's Review: The Skin of the Sky
Perez-Xochicale M. A.

Possible Quotes!
"I want to do science, Chava, be useful to my poor country."

INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph)

The Skin of the Sky by Elena Poniatowska is not only a thought-provoking,
but also an intensive, sometimes more realistic than romantic, but at the same time
a must read novel. This book is rooted in Lorenzo de Tena, who is plagued
by doubts regarding the cosmos, life and love. Such things are well connected
throught the story so as to understand both
the born of science in a developing country and
uncomprenhensible human side (*world) of feelings to woman..
and to pull out some misteries of the universe.

MAIN BODY (3 paragraphs)

This novel is revolted around Lorenzo de Tena, who is a not only a very bright
and obstinated character(*man) but also one who have his obscure human side
of misanthropy and misoginism, in which personal misfortunes such as death,
solitude, hipocrisy doomed him to point where only depression and exaltation exists,
but to his fortune and to aliviate his cosmic solitude, an unexpected gift is presented:
the heaven that is opening up for him to devote himself so as to be
a scientist of international calibre.
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(PARALELISM)

Lorenzo de Tena
, who can be defined as mysterious, hostile, frugal, or stuborn man,
is a well developed character in a series of hypnotic events that reveal
his devotion to Astronomy. In addition, there are characthers such as his mother, Florencia,
a witty countrywoman to whom even with his lack of education gave to their childs
various unforgetable teachings from math to linguistics in Coyoacan.
Lorenzo's sibilings (Emilia, Juan, Leticia, Santiago) whom through their colourful
lifes present an humorous and realistic side of the human life, also
are deeply touched after their mother's death.

The novel through a series of events that goes from giving up University studies
to casual sexual encounters,
from traveling to foreing countries to show that Mexican poeple can do science
to the epiphany caused from unravealing a chaotic infinite spiral that is not concentrated in a disjointed
but in a ciclical flow from misunderstaing to understading, like the novel itself.

Poniatowska's syntax is very varieated which goes from simple, complex, disjointed,
colloquial, poetic and romantic literature traits, but on the whole,
it has a well-balanced style.


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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (1 paragraph)

The Skin of the Sky is a powerful novel which is definitevely well worth reading.
It is fully recommended to the course since, the reader would be exposed to
a outnumber literature traits. On the whole, the readers are goint to be

with a seed which creates a yearning to unravel the mysteries of
both the universe and love.

Thu 06 Mar 2014 12:13:52 AM EST



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SECOND VERSION



The Skin of the Sky -- Book's Review

The Skin of the Sky by Elena Poniatowska is not only thought-provoking but also an intensive one,
which sometimes is more realistic than romantic but at the same time gripping. This book is rooted in
Lorenzo de Tena who is plagued by doubts regarding the cosmos, life and love. The story is well
connected so as to understand both the born of science in a developing country and the incomprensible
world of feelings for a woman.

This novel is revolted around Lorenzo de Tena, who is not only a bright and obstinated man but alos one
who has his obscure human side where misanthropy and misoginism exist. Lorezon, a mysterious, hostile,
frugal, or stubborn man, is well developed character to whom personal misfortunes such as death, solitude
and hypocrisy doomed him to the point where only depression and exaltation exists, but to his fortune
and to aliviate his cosmic solitude an unexpected and flabbergasted gift is presented: the heaven that has
been oppenning up for him to devote himself so as to be a scientist of international calibre.

In addition to that, there are characters such as his mother, Florencia, a witty countrywoman to whon even
with his lack of education, she gives varios unforgetable teachings that had gone from math to linguistics
in Coyoacan. Lorenzo's sibilins (Emilia, Juan, Leticia, and Santiago), whom through theri colourful,
humorous and intensive life are deeply touched soon after their mother's death.

The novel, through a series of events, goes from giving up University studies to causual sexual intercourse
encounters, from traveling to foreign country to show that Mexican people can do science to the epiphany
caused from unraveling a chaotic spiral is neither concentrated nor disjointed but one that goes
from a cyclical flow from misunderstanding to understanding and viceversa.

Poniatowska's syntax is sure-enough variated that in terms of literature traits is simple, complex,
disjointed, colloquial, poetic and even romantic. Generally, the novel has a well-balanced style.

The Skin of the Sky is a powerful novel which is definitively a well worth reading. It is fully recommmended
to the reader since is going to be exposed to an outnumber of literature features. On the whole,
the readers are going to be deeply involved with the storyline that will create a yearning to unravel
the mysteries of both the universe and love.


Sat Mar 08 18:06:24 2014
p.d. I know for sure that previuos version can be more refined in style.
Probably, in my next review I will consider improving the previos one.




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DRAFT premises


  about
and mainly to contribute to your country
by doing science of International



that makes the a gripping novel and mainly becuase


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poetical and cosmical ways to describe feelings,
his search for something who
to the point where he realise
meets an Astronomer that is like a
in which due its university drop out, he shows an astonishing inteligence
to which send him to study to Harvard for several years
and his altruistic idea of comming back to Mexico
to contribute by creating more observatories
and establishing research instituions

The abover-mentioned events add a reflective vision of Mexican situation,
with all the phisophical and existencial views of human nature and
last but not least, humorous side of the characters.




but with some feautures of misoginism and hate to humanity.
This novel narrates Lorenzo's

from


deceived by
the day to day human behavior of cheating, corruption to point where he
had spent months between depression and exaltation,
and now, like


regarding the universe in which he found refuge to his cosmic solitude,
and where the science of Astronomy came at the exact point
to his cure to Mexican's

he would thought that he would melt into something bigger than himself
and the cosmos


 takes to places where few are stuborn enought to deveto *** to it

he
 wanted to sk
not argue among human weakness.
cosmic solitude


The use of a limited omniscient narrator technique is well perceived in
events that goes from


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