Summary:
In the civil war novel "Cold Mountain," Charles Frazier uses descriptions of settings and senses to create mood. Plus, character sketches of Inman, Ada and Ruby.
In this essay I am going to see how Charles Frazier's writing style creates images and humour and I will discuss the reader's perspective of the characters.
Firstly, I will discuss how Frazier creates visual, graphic images through his writing. Frazier always presents us with a lot of descriptive information, which is used to set a scene.
The information used is very informative, detailed and graphic, which is used to the effect of painting a picture for the reader to see.
Instead of just saying, the sun was setting, Frazier goes into so much more detail, which makes the sunset sound really interesting. Page 23, 'Low grey clouds massed at the flat horizon, but as the sun fell to earth line it found an opening in the clouds and shot a beam of light the colour of hot hickory.....
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