Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
One of these texts is an essay and one is a short story. What makes them different genres? If you didn't have the table of contents to consult, would you be able to tell which one is which? How so?
As I was reading Human Snowball I was able to tell it was an essay. It sounded like it just from the way it began. It sounded like a love story in a movie form. As I read I got this perfect picture idea of what the scenes looked like, how the people looked. I pictured the situations of Chris going to pick up all these people they met. This story was told in a different tone compared to Marion. Marion I figured was the fiction story. The way the author writes this story was different from Human Snowball and there was a different tone with Marion. Marion also had a clear picture as well. As I would read I can picture the ranch and in a different time frame. Both were very interesting stories.
As I was reading Human Snowball I was able to tell it was an essay. It sounded like it just from the way it began. It sounded like a love story in a movie form. As I read I got this perfect picture idea of what the scenes looked like, how the people looked. I pictured the situations of Chris going to pick up all these people they met. This story was told in a different tone compared to Marion. Marion I figured was the fiction story. The way the author writes this story was different from Human Snowball and there was a different tone with Marion. Marion also had a clear picture as well. As I would read I can picture the ranch and in a different time frame. Both were very interesting stories.
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