Snowdrops - Exploring Snowdrops :: English Literature

Snowdrops - Exploring Snowdrops - Consider the structure and language - What does the author want to compass - Your personal views argon essential.Snowdrops-----------Task -Explore Snowdrops.Targets -1) Consider the structure and language.2) What does the writer want to achieve.3) Your personal views ar essential.Snowdrops is a story based on child homogeneous adore, emotion anddiscovery. After reading the story umpteen metres in depth I look atdiscovered that at that place is a lot much to the story than there aperiesfor example contrasts and proportion in the short story that liven itup quite significantly, standardised use of colours, temperature,descriptions, textures and creative writing are all used to have acertain atmosphere.What is the story ab come out? If you were to read the story once you wouldprobably say it was about a schoolteacher that all the children likeand she was seeing a man who died. But if you look closely at thestructure of the story then you w ill see there is more than that, itis about a child who cant wait to see the snowdrops in the schoolgarden and when he finally sees then he sees they are not all thatamazing, which is true to life in many prise because nothingappears to be a good as it is made out to be.Descriptive writing is one of the strongest things in this piece itis used to entice the reader into the same state of mind of the writer.Today Miss Webster is going to tell them the snowdrops growing in thelittle three cornered garden outside(a) the school-keepers house, thisis a great sentence because the writer could have just verbalise littlegarden but to add affect she said three cornered, this creates a wizard(prenominal) place in out heads and helps us to imagine the garden. Gerard was eating a bowl of porridge, and what he did was this. Hewould make a crater in the porridge with his spoon, and then he wouldwatch the milk run in and lodge in the hole up. Then he would dip hisspoon in it and crisp it. Do es this create a marvellous picture inyour head? Because it does in mine as I have done this myself when Ihave been eating my breakfast. This is a prime example of child likewonder as he is so amused and excited with his new discovery, when youare younger you are fascinated with the smallest things like theporridge and the snowdrops.Contrasts are occurring all the time in Snowdrops for example redsand oranges are used to create that affect of commove and well being and