Friday, November 21, 2014

Structure RL5

The structure of the book was completely portrayed around the moments of awe. There would be a paragraph leading up to the "climax" the one sentence climax would usually be a story changer and would hold its own paragraph. The end of chapters were always shocking regardless of the information whether it be bad or good or neither.

For example, in the end of a chapter in the first section "I know this room. White walls. White floors. Black desks. This is the Testing room from my father's nightmares." (Pg. 78)

In the middle sections (2 & 3) the structure is similar to this but there isn't always the greatest amount of interesting information. However in one part of the second section at the end of a chapter, there is a sentence that is structured to shock and awe. "I open my mouth to call out - to tell him not to touch the metal box.
But he already has. A moment later a nail imbeds itself in Malachi's eye, and he drops to the floor like a stone." (Pg. 111)

In the fourth section as Cia was getting closer to finishing the structure was made to speed up and make the reader anxious to read ahead and find out the outcome.

"Zeen's Transit Communicator is strapped with wire to the handle bars.
Seven miles left.
Six.
Five." (Pg. 285)
*later on down the page*
"Tomas starts to lose his balance, and I sit back down. I re-attach the rope and keep pedaling.
One mile." (Pg. 285)

So overall, the structure of the book was designed around speed of whats going on, and also around the important details, usually described at the end of the chapters.


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