Thursday, January 9, 2014

Sentence 2

"I said, 'Oh' with recognizable relief, 'oh' with a shameful, rising inflection, 'the movie.'"
Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's and three stories. 2nd Vintage International ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Print.
Commentary:
In this sentence, Capote illustrates a common situation that readers face when they speak to those who have not read their favorite book, but have seen the movie adaptation and are criticizing the events in the film. They must listen to their complaints and their misunderstandings of certain elements of the movie. In the first half of the sentence, with the alliteration of "recognizable relief" the reader envisions a large sigh and instant relaxation of the face as the one realized that one would speak of the book in such a way. Continuing on with the inflection of voice, which completes the realization that the topic of discussion is the movie and not the book. The sentence contains imagery without an abundance of words and description.

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