Sports And Buissness Essay, Research Paper

Patterns are a very important part of any novel. It takes a delicate skill of the

writers to manipulate these patterns so that they do what is intended. If the writer has

control of his word choice and clearly reveals these patterns to the reader, it makes the

book stronger and understandable. The use of patterns is to convey an underlying

meaning. If these patterns are not revealed strongly to the reader, the book may seem

confusing and the message or plot of the story may be misunderstood. In ?Cival Peace?

and in ?And of Clay We Are Created? the authors show masterfully how control of

patterns can allow the reader to get inside the character?s head and see exactly who they

are and where the story is leading them.

In ?And of Clay We Are Created? the main pattern is transformation. It occors

often throughout the story. It gives the reader a clear understanding of what is happening

to the character. The biggest transformation in the story is Rolf Carle` becoming

Azucena.

?He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him

such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay,

a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable

from that perspective. He took excessive risks as an excercise of courage, training by day

to conquer the monsters that tormented him by night. But he had come face to face with

the moment of truth; he could not continue to escape the past. He was Azucena.?

This quote shows us the ezact transformation from Rolfe Carle` to Azucena. This

is powerful because it makes a clear and distinct comparrison between the two main

characters. This is what the story is entirely based on. This allows the reader to see why

they cared so much about each other even though they only new each other a short time.

Rolfe saw himself like her, he felt as though he was stuck in the mud and water not able

to breathe or move. The author masterfully uses pattern to make the reader concious of

what the character is feeling and it gives us something tangible to relate. By the

describing of what Azucena was going through and then Rolfe being compared to that

we can see the feeling and relationship between the two characters. The authors also uses

transformations to evoke compassion from the reader.

Rolfe Carle` removed the life buoy, closed her eyelids, held her to his chest for a

few moments, and then let her go. She sank slowly, a flower in the mud.?

This evokes great emotion from the reader. We are reminded that she was an

innocent girl caught in an avalanche. She did not expierence life, she was a young,

innocent, sweet flower. The patterns of transformations in ?And of Clay We Are

Created? is what takes the reader through the story. It links all the character information

we received in the begining to feeling and substance. We understand the feelings of Rolfe

Carte` and why he cares so much for Azucena. We see how they connect and how

innocent and beautiful she was. This pattern helped us compare and evoked feeling,

sometimes patterns convey the underlying meaning of a story.

In ?Civil Peace? the simple pattern of repeating words show us, the reader the

underlying meaning of the story and what the character was thinking. Johnathan Iwegbu

thought he was lucky because he had only lost one son in the war. Instead of mourning

his son?s death he celebrated the fact that three sons lived. He was happy that he still had

his bike and his house. The war made him less compassionate toward life and his family.

In the story the lack of emotion strikes the reader as different. Why would Jonathan feel

so lucky and blessed after this terrible war in which he lost a son. ?Nothing puzzles

God.? This line repeated over and over again tells the reason. He believes that everything

happens for a reason and that God knows what will happen and how it will efect people.

If this line was only used once or twice the reader may not pay much attention to it. The

author knew that this line was the meaning of the story and and told us why Jonathan

acted and thought as he did.

?`I count it as nothing,? he told his sympathizers, his eyes on the rope he was

tying. `What is egg-rasher? Did I depend on it last week? Or is it greater than other things

that went with the war? I say, let egg-rasher perish in the flames! Let it go where

everything else has gone. Nothing puzzles God.??

The pattern of repeating thosae words throughout the story shows us, the reader

what is happening. The author made clear his meaning in this story with those words.

Johnathan felt that God controlled everything and he put his faith in God because he

thnks God knows everything. This pattern like the other was very effective in

communicating the story with the reader

Both patterns were very different in the way they are presented but both

accomplish what they were intended to. In ?And of Clay We Are Created? the author

uses transformation to connect the characters. The pattern in this story are dealing

specifically with the characters and nothing else. It gives the reader a clear picture and

evokes emotions from them. In ?Civil Peace? the pattern is just the repition of words. It

does not deal with the characters directly but indirectly. It shows the thoughts of the main

character, Johnathan. It also reaveals the underlying meaning of the story, that God

knows all and knows what is happening. Both of these patterns are used well and both

contribute to the story but they both do it in different ways. They differ in structure and

the kind of patterns they are. They also differ in what they want to get out of the reader.

Both are patterns but differ in every other way.