The writing style used in the article ‘Sad Home’ is very interesting and captures the attention of the reader nearly immediately. The author employs a very descriptive style of writing, almost like poetry, right from the start setting the reader up for what they will encounter throughout the text. The story starts with the family waiting for the moving car to arrive and when they finally do, the author describes almost poetically how the items were moved from the car, ‘…the boys trumpeted the poor junk…’ to mean moved it hastily and loudly to the house before referring to money as ‘hard ones’. This poetic language used by the author is quite descriptive and allows the reader to be immersed in the story and try to imagine what the author is attempting to describe. The reader is allowed to visualize how the house looked and feel the situation the family found itself when the man “looked around, and the cold walls, with the bitterness of the sad nudity, and the dust covered furniture…” After such a description, one can only endeavor to recreate in their mind this situation thus delvin further into the world of the story.
Still on the narrative style, the author switches between 3 rd party narration and quoted speech allowing the reader to imagine the scenes in the article and also view the lives of the characters in the story from different perspectives; one is that of a third party looking into their lives, and the second is near firsthand experience of the action through direct speech. These switches in narration techniques allow the reader a wholesome understanding of the text as the reader is able to empathize with the characters while at the same time watch and critic their lives and actions from a far which makes the story more interesting.
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The narrative techniques used in the article are quite rich given the mix between the poetic language and the switching between the narrations of the story. The reader actually has to read the article more than once, not just because it is hard to understand, but because it is easy to miss some hidden messages and also the flow of the story due to the poetic writing. As a reader, one yearns to know more of the story so they can understand how the family found itself in that situation and how it coped with its current situation. This ability to develop desire in a reader to know more about the characters or the events that took place in the story are an indication of how good the author has effectively used various narrative techniques to deliver his story and makes the ‘Sad Home’ a good piece of literary work.
