Fragmentation sneaks up on the reader by appearing as a quote however, it is not so. When
Juan’s mother is about to die her last death wish is, “Don’t ask him for
anything. Just what is ours. What he should have given me but never did. . . .
Make him pay son.” Dolores doesn’t finish
her death wish completely, her ellipsis illustrate a sense of sorrow or emptiness. This can inform the reader that there is more
to the story than beneath the eyes. When the audience reads this quote they
feel a sort of discomfort by it. With this the author wanted the reader to
become an outsider looking into the Dolores’s life as a change of a different
perspective. In a way, we are (as the reader) left with loneliness trying to find our way out; or as they say: we are trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
I like the part about what the ellipsis illustrates. Nice connection between form and function.
ReplyDeleteThe first sentence confuses me a bit.
Oula- try to avoid cliches in your academic writing: "more to the story than beneath the eyes," and "light at the end of the tunnel."