Writing voice- The Importance of kindness

They offer surprising information and observations

When the author first started the video with surprising information and observations. First starting the video you thinking he will just start talking about kindness but he instead begins with a story of a girl who got bullied. "In the seventh grade a new kid joined our class." (Saunders, 0:09) he then continues to describe this girl in precise detail. "She had a habitat of taking a strain of hair and chewing on it" (Saunders, 0:25) He also describes her as shy and she wore grandma glasses. This real makes you imagine the girl in your head and you actually know her. He really keeps you captured in the story by giving you detail after detail until he just suddenly ended it, similar to how the girl suddenly moved away.

They deliver interesting information

The author's voice is really powerful when he delivers the information. He first off starts with a story that hooks you right away, but what is even more impressive is when he hooks you at the end of the story. "End of story. Now why that? Why after 42 years am I still thinking about that?" (Saunders, 1:05) He ends the story rather quickly and you are still wondering what happened to the girl? Saunders is then asking himself why after all these years does he remember this little story. That hooks the audience because if he remembers this story with precise accuracy after 42 years, there must be a big idea that people want to find out.

They exhibit perceptivity

The author offers movement through the video by first presents us a story. He goes through story about when the girl arrived and when she left. He transitioned from the story to beef of the subject. He uses the story to move into the Importance of kindness. The author was very straight forward with the transition by saying "Then she left, end of story" (Saunders 1:01)  He started to talk about kindness and was straight forward and the audience could see the separation between the story and the beef.

Catcher in teh Rye Blog 2

A vignette I was looking at in chapter 15 was when Holden was done talking to the nuns. After their conversation that he enjoyed, he was also pleased that they didn't ask if he was catholic. He then shared us a story about a boy named Louis Shaney who he was having a great conversation with about tennis, then Louis suddenly said "Did you happen to notice where the Catholic is in town, by any chance?" This powerful moment showed how he disliked when people asked if he was Catholic because in ruins the conversation and just because awkward.

Catcher in teh Rye 9-10

In this simple discussion of there being a rattle in this lady’s car, there is a greater idea. Everybody has a rattle, but not a literal rattle. A rattle used in this story is a problem that one has that nobody else sees, hears, and feels. In the story the author mentions cancer as an example of a rattle and Holden can relate to this because his brother Allie died of cancer and his death banged up Holden. The article is about a rattling sound in the car, but really the rattle is a problem like I said before. A problem you usually have to fight alone. I really think the second half of the story connects perfectly with Holden. Not just because of his brother, but because of Holden’s rattle. As we have already seen throughout his complex characterization that he has a problem and he is telling his story through a mental hospital. The article says “that thing that is the thorn in your side, that others can’t see or detect that you’re told to get over.”