Microblog Three: Imagery
Chosen passage:
“Aight, people of all kinda brown colors was tossing around in them beds without no sheets, looking like a box of chocolates that had fell on the floor and got smashed and then put back into the smashed box. Whatever. A bunch of them beds had striped mattresses on em with rusty springs poking through the tops, and the tops was ripped up. Them beds was close together as you could get beds without making it one big bed. The concrete floor and the walls had a ton of layers of paint all over em, and the layers had chipped away, so you could see brown and white patterns crawling up the paint and moldy-ass smears of water damage over the whole kit and caboodle. It’s some small windows up by the ceiling, but they got wooden boards over em” (Hannaham 101).
First of all, Darlene be like:
In this passage, the reader is shown the true living conditions of Delicious Foods. This description of the "amenities" starkly contrasts the way that it had been described by Jackie (the warden that convinces people to join the Delicious Foods workforce). The description of beds where the "tops was ripped up," and moldy walls creates an image that looks more like a prison. The most impact of this description, however, came from the last sentence of the passage. In choosing to reveal that there were once windows that now "got wooden boards over em," Darlene reveals that the company takes the opportunity to create an environment that is dark and miserable, rather than leaving the windows open for their workers to enjoy seeing the farm briefly as colorful and beautiful.
Also, Darlene's chosen metaphor for the people in beds as "a box of chocolates that had fell on the floor and got smashed and then put back into the smashed box," not only shows the physical condition of the beds and people but also shows the emotional states of the people in the beds. The laborers that Darlene describes have experienced extreme pain through everyday work, and how their emotional states have worsened over time as a result of the conditions in which they live.
“Aight, people of all kinda brown colors was tossing around in them beds without no sheets, looking like a box of chocolates that had fell on the floor and got smashed and then put back into the smashed box. Whatever. A bunch of them beds had striped mattresses on em with rusty springs poking through the tops, and the tops was ripped up. Them beds was close together as you could get beds without making it one big bed. The concrete floor and the walls had a ton of layers of paint all over em, and the layers had chipped away, so you could see brown and white patterns crawling up the paint and moldy-ass smears of water damage over the whole kit and caboodle. It’s some small windows up by the ceiling, but they got wooden boards over em” (Hannaham 101).
First of all, Darlene be like:
In this passage, the reader is shown the true living conditions of Delicious Foods. This description of the "amenities" starkly contrasts the way that it had been described by Jackie (the warden that convinces people to join the Delicious Foods workforce). The description of beds where the "tops was ripped up," and moldy walls creates an image that looks more like a prison. The most impact of this description, however, came from the last sentence of the passage. In choosing to reveal that there were once windows that now "got wooden boards over em," Darlene reveals that the company takes the opportunity to create an environment that is dark and miserable, rather than leaving the windows open for their workers to enjoy seeing the farm briefly as colorful and beautiful.
Also, Darlene's chosen metaphor for the people in beds as "a box of chocolates that had fell on the floor and got smashed and then put back into the smashed box," not only shows the physical condition of the beds and people but also shows the emotional states of the people in the beds. The laborers that Darlene describes have experienced extreme pain through everyday work, and how their emotional states have worsened over time as a result of the conditions in which they live.
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