The author which we’re looking at has made three large popular english works of recognizable media. A poem about women’s rights, a story about the first time the author did something meaningful, and an image which shows how pluralism is a large factor in what makes people Canadian. When commencing the difficult process of writing a successful story that can influence the minds and emotions of the readers resulting in a more emotional and animated story, the author needed make many changes in order to get the right feeling when reading the first time story. One of the things the author needed to revise was the use of literary devices such as similes and metaphors. The author needed to use less cliche similes such as cold as snow and slippery as ice. He changed this to give the story more personality because similes like those are generally used very commonly and doesn’t give your story perspective. The author went through the process to convey the right feeling when going up the chairlift including fear. He incorporated metaphors such as “I was a lone baby in a haunted house”, which conveys the idea that he didn’t know what to do and was really scared while questioning if he would be able to survive it. He then changed this to “It was cold as a mean guy’s heart” which shows that it was cold. The author then changed “slippery as ice” to “slippery as someone’s trust” because someone’s trust is generally easy to lose.
	The second decision the author made was using lots of imagery so that the reader can correctly interpret the scenario that the author is trying to convey. Examples of this are in multiple areas. First, the whole chunk of “The chairlift just went higher and higher past the first mountain, countless meters in the air. The air getting colder and colder” shows how high the chairlift was going and how the scene was. How you can imagine that the chairlift is going past the mountains and subsequently getting colder. Also, “There were a few paths. Most of which led to a steep cliff-like mountain. Everything was white snow and there were only a few people up there with me..I avoided those and went down the easiest path I could find.” This imagery shows the area on the final mountain and how cold, snowy, and lonely it was up there.
	The final decision that the author made was using artistic / stylistic choices and strategies to help convey a mood such as suspense in multiple areas. The first and most notable one is at the chairlift part: “ If these people couldn’t come down, could I?

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	Finally, my chairlift ended”. This helps convey a message of suspense because it’s as if the story is set on a cliff hanger but continued after a bit. It just adds the extra delay to the message there in between the paragraphs to symbolize a pause and that this goes on for a while until the chairlift ends. The other spot where the author used stylistic choices were when he used very short sentences to convey an idea. “I was a scared cat being forced out of its home. At least, that’s what it felt like. I didn’t know if I would ever return. I saw countless professional snowboarders fall. All the way down the mountain. I couldn’t see any other people on the chairlift. I was alone. The mountain was like a skyscraper. If these people couldn’t come down, could I?”. That whole chunk of text is very short sentences to symbolize the pace of which my mind was going at. Since these were just thoughts, and thoughts could be racing around your mind. You could be thinking slowly or you could be thinking really fast like in this scenario and the author used short sentences to show it. In conclusion this author used many writing techniques and revisions in order to create a piece that can attempt to build an emotion which helps animate and enlarge the experience of reading it through multiple ways which are literary devices, imagery, and stylistic choices.