Chapter 9-Gatsby Reflection

How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?

Authors use the resources of language to impact an audience by creating a feeling or foreshadowing an event. Authors use language to create a vivid picture to help the reader understand every important detail. Descriptions become extremely important in The Great Gatsby because every detail of the story comes back in the end. By using certain colors or environments, it can make the audience feel an emotion. Fitzgerald uses colors a lot when he writes. Using dark, pale, and cool colors creates a feeling of death and foreshadows something bad is coming. Using white or clean colors can show that something is clean and pure. He can also change his sentence structure to create a scene. When he describes Daisy and Gatsby meeting again after five years, he uses short and choppy sentences to create and awkward feeling. Using larger sentences can show that something is interesting and very important. Fitzgerald used longer sentences when describing Gatsby's house and parties. This was probably because they were very interesting. Dialogue is also a resource of language. It is used in every story because it is a very effective way to impact and audience. Dialogue can show the reader how the character is feeling. It can also create a feeling in the reader. Vocabulary is important is writing. Fitzgerald uses larger vocabulary when using dialogue with the wealthier people. The shows that they are better educated than the poorer people in the story, who use basic vocabulary. These are the resources of language that every author uses to impact the audience.