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Compare and contrast The Storm and The Saboter. Different Writing Styles Yield
Different Result Amongst Readers Ha Jin and Kate Chopin ...
Submitted by k2skaterii on April 1, 2008
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Different Writing Styles Yield Different Result Amongst Readers
Ha Jin and Kate Chopin are two American authors who lived just a little more than 50 years apart. Ha Jin’s story “Sabotage” is about an innocent man who is wrongfully accused of a crime by a Chinese police department, is denied legal counsel and forced to confess to his crimes. In Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” she writes about an affair a woman has while her husband and her son are away from the house, this affair actually strengthens their marriage in the end of the story. Kate Chopin and Ha Jin use setting and character development in their stories, sometimes differently and sometimes quite comparably, yet both effectively at getting their points across.
The ways Ha Jin and Kate Chopin use setting in “Sabotage” and “The Storm” are not similar at all. Ha Jin starts “Sabotage” off with a very detailed description of the Muji City train station. He included every detail possible, without drowning the reader in useless details. “The air smelled of rotten melon. A few flies kept buzzing above the couple’s lunch. Hundreds of people were rushing around to get on the platform or to catch buses to downtown. Food and Fruit vendors were crying for customers in lazy voices” (Jin, P 179). Jin dedicates an entire paragraph to the description of the area surrounding the main character, making sure the reader is thoroughly immersed in the story before going ahead and telling it.
In a very dissimilar style Kate Chopin does not go into great detail describing the setting in which the story takes place as Ha Jin did, she leaves out the details such as how the air smells and even exactly where the story takes place. By the end of the story the reader knows that Alcee’s wife is in Biloxi, Louisiana but they are never told exactly where the story takes place. To help readers discern where the story is taking place, Kate Chopin’s uses dialogue to allude...
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