Different Styles of Writing

Authors note:


I wrote this analysis as a response to Barn Burning by William Faulkner. I tried to understand this book, but I couldn't enough to make a good essay and know what I was talking about. So due to that, I just decided to write about how I didn't understand some other authors' writing. I wanted to actually write more about the story, but I don't know how to make a good response to something I don't understand.  


   You’re at your local library, looking for something new. You see a row of books you’ve never heard of before. You decide to give them a try. For others, reading classic, old, or different books is a treat. It can be an exciting way to get entertainment and try something new. To see what other kind of books are out there. But unfortunately for me, it’s just not always as simple to pick up some book and read it. I feel like a lot of writers just have a different writing style that I can’t always understand.

   Barn Burning by William Faulkner is a good example of this. I personally didn’t really know what I was doing when I picked this book. I guess it would be good to read something different that wasn’t too big of a book to read. This story takes place near the Civil War era. I could tell it was either way since they were talking about slaves a lot. This book also is relatively old too; the copyright says 1939 and renewed in 1967. Anyway it mainly just has to do with a Father and his family moving to supposedly Mexico due to the Father being acquitted of Burning a Barn. From there I couldn’t tell much what was going on. All I could think was what was that about or who’s that or since when were they there? This sequence usually seems to happen a lot whenever I read these kinds of books. I find the writer’s style of writing to just be confusing at times.

   Although I said I didn’t know what was going on, I could uncover that they went to some place where there’s someone called “Major de Spain.” His youngest son ended up running away out of suddenly losing loyalty for his father. He ran to these hills and he walked in the woods as a cliffhanger. That’s really all I could really make out of it. I just found it very confusing.

   So in conclusion, I guess this story just isn’t really my cup of tea. If there was any purpose of this story, I’d say it’s either to show some issues that may have happened during the Civil War or just show how fast loyalty can change. But as I said before, I really just couldn’t get a good feel for this one. I just find that sometimes I don’t always like a different style of writing from different writers.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best book in the series.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the 4^th installment of the Harry Potter books. It is one of and probably the longest book in the series other than Deathly Hollows. J.K. Rowling’s writing is probably the most vivid and exciting in this book out of all the others before it. Harry’s struggle with friendship, mystery, and championship is a story like no other. With it being a long and vivid book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best book in the series that I’ve read so far.

J.K. Rowling’s writing overall in any book is quite unique. So far every book in the series has been in 3^rd person, however, they always seem like they are in Harry’s perspective; almost as if in 1^st person. Not only that, but sometimes, it seems to be going with you almost as if it is in present tense opposed to past tense. For instance; sometimes the narrator will be talking about what’s going on and then start seeming as if it’s Harry’s thoughts. Then the description is cut off by an event going off which is similar to interrupting Harry’s thought process. In this book it especially shows this a lot more than compared to the earlier installments.

There are many lessons taught in this book. One is about friendship. In the beginning Ron gets mad at Harry because he always gets all the attention. He thinks that he put name in the goblet of fire when he was too young, but Harry pledges multiple times that he did not. For a lot of chapters the fight goes on. Soon Hermione knocks some sense into them. Thus, the lesson is sometimes you need to trust your friends and not get jealous.

Another lesson taught in this book is related to trust. There are 3 schools coming together to compete in a tri-wizard tournament. Harry and Ron don’t trust the other schools because they are suspecting that one of their leaders put Harry’s name in the goblet of fire. In turns out that the players of the tournament were on his side after all, and none of the schools put his name in the fire. Hermione also went to the prom with one of the champions. She trusted him. 

In conclusion, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the best book that I’ve read from the series. Although some might say Deathly Hollows is the best, I haven’t gotten that far in the series yet. None the less, Goblet of Fire is still one of the best books in the series and is my favorite right now.