Diction/Tone
Section 1: The diction/tone for this section would be exciting and depressing. The reason it would be exciting is because the part where he is trying to keep the cart from falling so it wouldn't injure the people around and in the cart. Also he saves the little girl from getting killed by the cart and it takes his life. ‘“OH MY GOD!” the fat woman yelled. “THOSE PEOPLE! THEY’RE GONNA FALL!”’(Albom 14)/. This shows excitement because it gets your heart pounding wanting to know what is going on and whether or not the people are gonna fall. The reason it would be depressing is because the day that Eddie dies is his 83rd birthday. “By his 83rd birthday…” this is showing the audience that it is his birthday.
Section 2: For the second section the diction/tone is shocking. the reason it would be shocking is because Eddie finds out that he was the reason for The Blue Man’s death. “A man is behind the wheel of a ford model A, which he has borrowed from a friend to practice his driving. The road is wet from the morning rain. Suddenly a baseball bounces across the street, and a boy comes racing after it. The driver slams on the breaks and yanks the wheel. The car skids, the tires screech.” “The man somehow regains control, and the Model A rolls on. The child has disappeared in the rearview mirror, but the mans body is still affected, thinking of how close he came to tragedy. The jolt of adrenaline has forced his heart to pump furiously and his heart is not a strong one and the pumping leaves him drained. The man feels dizzy and his head drops momentarily. His automobile nearly collides with another. The second driver honks , the man veers again, spinning the wheel, pushing on the brake pedal. He skids along an avenue then turns down an alley. His vehicle rolls until it collides with the rear of a parked truck. There is a small crashing noise. The headlights shatter. The impact smacks the man into the steering wheel. His forehead bleeds. He steps from the model A, sees the damage, then collapses onto the wet pavement. His arm throbs. His chest hurts. It is sunday morning. the alley is empty. He remains there, unnoticed, slumped against the side of the car. The blood from his coronary arteries no longer flows to his heart. An hour passes. A policeman finds him. A medical examiner pronounces him dead. The cause of the death is listed as “heart attack”. There are no known relatives.”(Albom 43). This is shocking because Eddie finds out how he killed someone he didnt even know he killed.
Section 1: The diction/tone for this section would be exciting and depressing. The reason it would be exciting is because the part where he is trying to keep the cart from falling so it wouldn't injure the people around and in the cart. Also he saves the little girl from getting killed by the cart and it takes his life. ‘“OH MY GOD!” the fat woman yelled. “THOSE PEOPLE! THEY’RE GONNA FALL!”’(Albom 14)/. This shows excitement because it gets your heart pounding wanting to know what is going on and whether or not the people are gonna fall. The reason it would be depressing is because the day that Eddie dies is his 83rd birthday. “By his 83rd birthday…” this is showing the audience that it is his birthday.
Section 2: For the second section the diction/tone is shocking. the reason it would be shocking is because Eddie finds out that he was the reason for The Blue Man’s death. “A man is behind the wheel of a ford model A, which he has borrowed from a friend to practice his driving. The road is wet from the morning rain. Suddenly a baseball bounces across the street, and a boy comes racing after it. The driver slams on the breaks and yanks the wheel. The car skids, the tires screech.” “The man somehow regains control, and the Model A rolls on. The child has disappeared in the rearview mirror, but the mans body is still affected, thinking of how close he came to tragedy. The jolt of adrenaline has forced his heart to pump furiously and his heart is not a strong one and the pumping leaves him drained. The man feels dizzy and his head drops momentarily. His automobile nearly collides with another. The second driver honks , the man veers again, spinning the wheel, pushing on the brake pedal. He skids along an avenue then turns down an alley. His vehicle rolls until it collides with the rear of a parked truck. There is a small crashing noise. The headlights shatter. The impact smacks the man into the steering wheel. His forehead bleeds. He steps from the model A, sees the damage, then collapses onto the wet pavement. His arm throbs. His chest hurts. It is sunday morning. the alley is empty. He remains there, unnoticed, slumped against the side of the car. The blood from his coronary arteries no longer flows to his heart. An hour passes. A policeman finds him. A medical examiner pronounces him dead. The cause of the death is listed as “heart attack”. There are no known relatives.”(Albom 43). This is shocking because Eddie finds out how he killed someone he didnt even know he killed.
Section 3: The Diction/Tone for the third section would be horrific. The reason that the diction/tone would be horrific is because Eddie meets his old captain when he was in the army and it flashes back to when they were in battle and it describes when and how the captain died and Eddie never knew how he died. The captain ran ahead of the group to check and see if the coast was clear for them to pass through. “The path was clear. He waved to his men. A plane zoomed overhead and he lifted his eyes to see whose side it was. It was at that moment, while he was looking to the heavens, that that a small click sounded beneath his right foot. The land mine exploded instantly, like a burping flame from the earths core. It blew the captain 20 feetinto the air and split him into peices, one fiery lump of bone and gristile and a hundred chunks of charred flesh, some of which flew over the muddy earth and landed in the banyan trees.”(Albom 90). This would be horrific because the captain is blown into pieces.
Section 4: The Diction/Tone for section four would be that it is revealing and sad. The reason that this section would be revealing is because Eddie meets a girl named Ruby and finds out that Ruby Pier was named after her. “I AM RUBY”, that is what she told Eddie when he understood who she was and what she had to do in his l life. This would be revealing because the audience finds out who the woman is that Eddie met. The other Diction/Tone would be sad because Eddie sees his dad in heaven but his dad can’t hear Eddie when he yells at him. “...never looking up, no matter how many times Eddie howled it, over and over again: Dad! Dad! Dad!”(Albom 101). This is sad because Eddie and his dad didn't have a very good relationship and Eddie finally wanted to talk to him and apologize but he couldn't because his dad couldn't hear him.
Section 5: The Diction/Tone for the fifth section would be loving, the reason it would be loving is because Marguerite loves Eddie and teaches him things about love. “Life has to end” “love doesn’t.”(Albom 173), is what Marguerite tells Eddie. what this tells the audience is that if you love someone on earth, it doesn't mean that when you die you stop loving them, you can love them in the afterlife just as much as you did on earth.
Section 6: The Diction/Tone for this section would be surprising and happy. The reason that it would be surprising is because Eddie finds out that there was a person in the fire when he was at war, and he meets her. “You burn me. You make me fire” (Albom 187). This is what the little girl named Tala told Eddie, he understood who she was and realized that she was the girl in the fire. The reason it would be happy is because he found out that he saved the little girl at the accident when he died. “Push her legs. No pull. You push. Big thing fall. You keep her safe.”(Albom 192). And he is going to be one of the five people that the girl he saved meets in heaven.