I Survived True Stories
By: Lauren Tarshis
11/13/2014
Prompt: Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text, Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure include textual evidence.
There is no real actual impact word choice until the disaster strikes or the climax of the story. It really reveals the terror the characters are experiencing throughout the horrific event. Although, it is sometimes hard to spot the impact word choice especially if you're confused on what's happening in the story. It is actually really rare for a character to use sophisticated word choices in this particular kind of book. I think this because of the story being a little bit fast-paced at times, but it could just be me.
There is not that much textual evidence because I haven't got that far into the book yet, but there is one thing I think that will suffice. Its the year 1888 and a man is trying to predict the weather, he predicted light snow, but he got more that, as a matter of fact he got the exact opposite of light snow. It is pretty obvious that he is a weather man, but there was no TV in the 1880's so he must've had a job in the newspapers, possibly. Either way his prediction is wrong.
The tone is very bright and happy at first, but it's when everything goes south, literally. Everybody who is actually involved in the story is brave and doesn't think of anything besides helping. The people who are confused during the catastrophe tend to panic al the time and scream in terror. Nobody in the story seems not to care about what's happening around them. Hopefully that doesn't happen anytime soon.
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