Reading the texts of your novel do you visialize what you read? Could you tell a specific quote that you visualize more? How do you feel when you visualize the text. Example: does it seem unclear?
I would say I most definitly visualize what I read. I dont know if its just me,but I think anyboook someone reads is supposed to make them visualize.I think thats one thing that every book has to have, the right words, and tone to make the reader visualize, and picture whats going on.
I Think that Palahniuk does a fantastic job on giving me visuals. That is one of the main reasons why I like this book. Every chapter I feel like I am in the story. His detials are so vivid and it pretty much just paints a picture in my head. One chapter I could really visualize was when Palahniuk dressed up in the dog suit. I could picture him walking around and getting harrassed by everyone.
I very much visualize what I've been reading about Eustace.There is one specific quote that stands out to me.Eustace father makes a comment to the writer and says "I could not wait for him to be born". This quote is amazing to me because as a child Eustace fathers belittles him at any cost. So know that Eustace father is older he realizes the error that he made with his first born. He's come to the realization that you have to let your children live there lives for themselves. When I see this text it makes me think about my life and how I would be as a parent. We all have a certain way a thinking of how we will be as adults/parents.But in reality we don't no how we'll be. My question to the class is....What do you think would be your strong and weak qualities as a parent.
I agree with Derrick. I think it is the authors responsability to make the reader visualize what they are reading. Some authors seem to do a much better job then others.
Colton, nice job explaining how the writing assists your visualization.
When we are writing essays, do you think we forget to include visual keys or grounding images? Does essay writing seem more rooted in fact and less in "sensory" details?
I can usually visuilize what I'm reading, especially if there's a lot of descriptions. In Stranger Than Fiction when the characters were describing their tractors for the demolition dearby, I could picture these machines in my mind. I pictured the huge machines that cut corn and that you get stuck behind on the road, going 5 mph. In the chapter the words made me picture them machines that destroyed and crushed up metal. It made it seem like they moved much faster than 5mph. Or in the chapter about the castles i could picture these huge gigantic houses made out of stone, that people actually lived in. When i usually think of castles i think of these amazing building but that are empty inside. The descriptions in this story went so much more deeper than just the exterior of the building. I could actually picture people living in castles now. When i read something with a lot of descriptions that go so indepth I just get a great picture in my mind. I think it makes it so clear. Does anyone else get like an actual image in their mind when they're reading?
I visualize what I read because the author explains every little detail. One quote that I can see really well is "I haven't been able to build the big courtyard walls and the big entrance towers and gates to make a castle twenty thousand square feet. The next time, I want to have a big great hall with timbers like a cathedral. And courtyard walls going around." This part of the book is filled with Castle visualizations. It really helps when I am able to see what is going on because I stay interested. It's definetly clear what he is discussing, and it's interesting to read.
I think a strong quality I would have as a parent would be knowing the right way to have my child not want to do the bad things. I mean we all know it will happen, but influencing their thoughts positively helps. That's just my opinion. It doesn't seem effective to just tell them "don't do this because..." The will of course want to do it after that. A weakness would be that I would probably be a strict parent anyway and turn my child into doing whatever they want. Has anyone ever had the mind state where they assume they will always let their child do what they want? Like "oh, I'd totally let my kid do this because I did and had no problem with it."
In Stranger Than Fiction I can visualize all of the chapters Palahniuk writes. He gives great detail in all his chapters to set up his story. In the chapter, Demolition, he states, " The landscape for a hundred miles is sagebrush and tumbleweed, except were the rolling hills are plowed to raise wheat. There dust devils spin."
After the details of the area is given, he talks about how the combines destroy each other demolition style. Because I can vividly see the terrain of the battlefield, my understanding of the sense and the nature of these battles are better understood. Can visualization ever be a bad thing in writing?
1 quote that I visualize, and think about every time I hear it is..."if you act like a liitle kid in this neighborhood, you're not gonna last too long.'cause if you play childish games in the ghetto, you're gonna find a childish bullet in your childish brain"...this quote alone when read, or heard makes me visualize several things. 1 of those things would be the hundreds of unsolved stray bullets that happen in the ghetto.This along with the deaths of small kids just playing and getting shot for no reason at all.When reading this quote what do you all visualize?
To go off of what colton said, I think the visualization is what makes the book sometimes. The visualization is what the reader remembers when their done reading the book.
Most authors have a way of describing a setting or plot that puts you in their position and you begin to visualize everything you read. It's funny that I visualize and could also feel where the author going through in the text. I visualize his affection on how he felt like a prisoner in his own house. Every reader should visualize everything they read to interpret and understand what their reading.
I think that visualizing the book is very important and necessary in order to understand the story and situations going on. If there is not enough detail in the book then i could understand why someone could not visualize, but there is still a way you can visualize the story. In Our America, they give you so much detail that it feels like you are actually there. The languauge used also helps a lot.
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I would say I most definitly visualize what I read. I dont know if its just me,but I think anyboook someone reads is supposed to make them visualize.I think thats one thing that every book has to have, the right words, and tone to make the reader visualize, and picture whats going on.
I Think that Palahniuk does a fantastic job on giving me visuals. That is one of the main reasons why I like this book. Every chapter I feel like I am in the story. His detials are so vivid and it pretty much just paints a picture in my head. One chapter I could really visualize was when Palahniuk dressed up in the dog suit. I could picture him walking around and getting harrassed by everyone.
I very much visualize what I've been reading about Eustace.There is one specific quote that stands out to me.Eustace father makes a comment to the writer and says "I could not wait for him to be born".
This quote is amazing to me because as a child Eustace fathers belittles him at any cost.
So know that Eustace father is older he realizes the error that he made with his first born. He's come to the realization that you have to let your children live there lives for themselves.
When I see this text it makes me think about my life and how I would be as a parent.
We all have a certain way a thinking of how we will be as adults/parents.But in reality we don't no how we'll be.
My question to the class is....What do you think would be your strong and weak qualities as a parent.
I agree with Derrick. I think it is the authors responsability to make the reader visualize what they are reading. Some authors seem to do a much better job then others.
Colton, nice job explaining how the writing assists your visualization.
When we are writing essays, do you think we forget to include visual keys or grounding images? Does essay writing seem more rooted in fact and less in "sensory" details?
I can usually visuilize what I'm reading, especially if there's a lot of descriptions. In Stranger Than Fiction when the characters were describing their tractors for the demolition dearby, I could picture these machines in my mind. I pictured the huge machines that cut corn and that you get stuck behind on the road, going 5 mph. In the chapter the words made me picture them machines that destroyed and crushed up metal. It made it seem like they moved much faster than 5mph.
Or in the chapter about the castles i could picture these huge gigantic houses made out of stone, that people actually lived in. When i usually think of castles i think of these amazing building but that are empty inside. The descriptions in this story went so much more deeper than just the exterior of the building. I could actually picture people living in castles now.
When i read something with a lot of descriptions that go so indepth I just get a great picture in my mind. I think it makes it so clear.
Does anyone else get like an actual image in their mind when they're reading?
I visualize what I read because the author explains every little detail. One quote that I can see really well is "I haven't been able to build the big courtyard walls and the big entrance towers and gates to make a castle twenty thousand square feet. The next time, I want to have a big great hall with timbers like a cathedral. And courtyard walls going around." This part of the book is filled with Castle visualizations. It really helps when I am able to see what is going on because I stay interested. It's definetly clear what he is discussing, and it's interesting to read.
I think a strong quality I would have as a parent would be knowing the right way to have my child not want to do the bad things. I mean we all know it will happen, but influencing their thoughts positively helps. That's just my opinion. It doesn't seem effective to just tell them "don't do this because..." The will of course want to do it after that.
A weakness would be that I would probably be a strict parent anyway and turn my child into doing whatever they want.
Has anyone ever had the mind state where they assume they will always let their child do what they want? Like "oh, I'd totally let my kid do this because I did and had no problem with it."
In Stranger Than Fiction I can visualize all of the chapters Palahniuk writes. He gives great detail in all his chapters to set up his story. In the chapter, Demolition, he states, " The landscape for a hundred miles is sagebrush and tumbleweed, except were the rolling hills are plowed to raise wheat. There dust devils spin."
After the details of the area is given, he talks about how the combines destroy each other demolition style. Because I can vividly see the terrain of the battlefield, my understanding of the sense and the nature of these battles are better understood. Can visualization ever be a bad thing in writing?
1 quote that I visualize, and think about every time I hear it is..."if you act like a liitle kid in this neighborhood, you're not gonna last too long.'cause if you play childish games in the ghetto, you're gonna find a childish bullet in your childish brain"...this quote alone when read, or heard makes me visualize several things. 1 of those things would be the hundreds of unsolved stray bullets that happen in the ghetto.This along with the deaths of small kids just playing and getting shot for no reason at all.When reading this quote what do you all visualize?
So Stranger than Fiction is really visual! Does it have to be visual since the characters and places are so "new" or strange to us?
To go off of what colton said, I think the visualization is what makes the book sometimes. The visualization is what the reader remembers when their done reading the book.
Most authors have a way of describing a setting or plot that puts you in their position and you begin to visualize everything you read. It's funny that I visualize and could also feel where the author going through in the text. I visualize his affection on how he felt like a prisoner in his own house. Every reader should visualize everything they read to interpret and understand what their reading.
I think that visualizing the book is very important and necessary in order to understand the story and situations going on. If there is not enough detail in the book then i could understand why someone could not visualize, but there is still a way you can visualize the story. In Our America, they give you so much detail that it feels like you are actually there. The languauge used also helps a lot.
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