Literary Device Essay

Bianca Lynch Literary device essay In the novel At archetypal Sight by Nicholas Sparks He uses mood to help you understand the main character, this also helps you to empathize with his problems and correlate to how they may feel. some other literary device he uses to help you connect to the novel is imagery he paints an elaborated picture of the town Jeremy Marsh now lives in with his new wife Lexi. The Author describes Boone Creek, a small town in NC Jeremy Marsh has recently moved to for his fiance Lexi Darnell, as a small rustic hick town that anyone coming from NYC would be ashamed to call abode.As Jeremy starts to feel more at home, His perspective of the town is changed. It changes from being a hick town to somewhere refreshing where he could chatter himself settling down with Lexi and their Daughter to come he expresses this early on in ch. Four of the novel, The last month in Boone creek, boring as it had been, was actuallyrefreshing (Jeremy pg 52). In fact he gets so us ed to the town that when he went back home to NY for his bachelor party he felt up out of place, as if something just didnt fit. His brothers and best friend Alvin criticized his clothes, the lumberjack shirt Lexi bought him.Although Jeremy always did consider himself a somewhat stylish man and if he was still living in NY would have never been seen in those clothes by wearing it made him feel somehow connected to Lexi and his new home Boone Creek. As I read this novel I pictured a clean cut New Yorker moving so a small country town and becoming lost in all the small town gossip and unfamiliar country ways. Theyll talk behind our backs, theyll gossip, and itll take folks on time to forget that we lived in sin (Lexi pg. 4) Lexi told Jeremy when trying to explain to him why they couldnt live together before acquire married. What Jeremy could not become given to was the constant gossip about other peoples lives, although this did go on in the city it wasnt as bad because new Yorke rs put ont have enough time in the day to just sit around and talk about other peoples lives. Another literary device Nicholas Sparks used to absorb the readers attention is mood. Throughout the whole first half of the novel I was left in perplexity s to how Jeremy and Lexis relationship would turn out. In the first four chapters the author tries to get the reader to think that there may be some kind of unfaithfulness going on between Lexi and Jeremy on Lexis part. Jeremy goes to Lexis job early one day to surprise her and she wasnt there and did not mention getting off early to him beforehand. When he went to look for her he found her on the bench that overlooked the river with Rodney, her childhood love, until , that is they shifted on the bench, and he then realized they were property hands. (Jeremy pg. 73), this along with many other unexplained disappearances by Lexi leads to the suspense in the novel. As I read the end when lexi dies after labor it puts me in a doleful mood. With Jeremy mourning his wifes death and the thought of their baby girl not having a mother in her life, he refuses to go see his daughter in fact he said he never wanted to see her. Since Lexi died during Claries birth Jeremy feels animosity towards her, when asked if he saw her yet he said no. Jeremy turned away.He didnt want to heart that, didnt want to hear anything about the babywould he ever be happy again? (Jeremy pg 258) Doris, Lexis grandmother finally convinces him to go see her, And in that instance, while staring at his daughter through a kelvin tears, he fell in love and wanted nothing more than to hold Claire forever. (Narrator pg 263). Jeremy learns to accept Lexis death and accept the gift she left behind, Claire. Although the novel jumps from suspense to love to distressing times Nicholas Sparks still manages to consume the readers attention by using mood and imajery.