Close-Reading Bingo

Weakness #4. The writer refers to "the readers" thus making it a weakness #4.
1.) The description of the building and the escalators creates a mood of apprehension for the readers. 
 Weakness #9. The writer uses this w/o a noun before or after it.
2.) This is basically the idea that time cannot be changed, it is as set-in-stone as a mountain range is. To the Tralfamadorians, time is one big line, made up of various moments.
 Weakness #2. The writer uses an extraordinarily long quote.
3.) "They were the free standing kind: a pair of integral signs swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight" and  he tells us that "On sunny days like this one, a temporary, steeper escalator of daylight, formed by intersections of the lobby's towering volumes of marble and glass, met the real escalators just above their middle point, spreading into a needly area of shine where it fell against their brushed-steel side-pannels, and adding long glossy highlights to each of the black rubber handrails"
 Weakness #3. The description is somewhat vague.
4.) His connotation diction is picturesque and suggestive of the lobby's highlighs and what he views as he walks through the building. 

Currently

Book: Dragon Rider
Pages: 163


Style Mapping Stuff:
The speaker describes the houses of Wall with casual, blunt language such as "square" and "old."
Finally, the diction of the first page in John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent is in the fourth quadrant. The characters speak in colloquial language, using words such as "silly," "darling chicken-flower," and "wop." 
This is also the same with the connotation because it is higher than journalistic, yet less than lyrical, making it almost invisible to the reader.
For example, "there is one road from Wall, a winding track rising sharply  up from the forest, where it is lined with rocks and small stones," conveys precise description that can easily be pictured.
This diction can be seen in phrases such as, “The house of Wall are square and old, built of grey stone, with dark slate roofs and high chimney.” 

These sentences were some of the best I looked at, thus I have placed them upon my post. 

Quarterly

Over the past quarter I have read three entire books. In all honesty that's more than I've read in the past ten years of my life. Reading in it self is a challenge but I have found that usually the sci-fi or fiction are harder to read. So far the most pleasurable reading would have to be Voices of Chernobyl which although depressing, it is a very good read. I typically find myself reading during the early evening and late afternoon and I usually am either in study session for football or out on my porch chillin with my pooch. A challenge or goal I would set for myself would be to read more often and have a wider variety of books.

Currently for the Quarter

Books: Voices of Chernobyl, Dragon Rider
Pages: 157

Sentences of the Quarter:
1.) "You only live once," "If we're going to die, let's do it to music."
2.) "The world has been split in two: there's us, the Chernobylites, and then there's you, the others."
3.) "The enemy is invisible, and he's everywhere. This is evil in a new guise."
These sentences have warry emotions to them which is why I like them. They seem to speak of sorrow and joy although sorrow more abundant. The people that speak these words are torn and crushed by the disaster and the book as a whole really get to a person. Voices of Chernobyl...saddening past.

Another story of a world unknown

Through my continuous reading of Voices of Chernobyl I have come across another heart breaking story. A story of loss and despair comes forth through the voice of a young women and her mother. They are torn. their lives have been shattered. The daughter i pregnant...with a ball of radiation. She cries constantly at the thought of how everyone was left unaware of the true disaster that was occuring. Her baby. She mourns for her baby and cries at the thought of what she might look like. Her mother cries at the loss of her husband and the pain he went through. She knows that her fate is soon to be the same and she doesn't care. They live in the woods on the outskirts of the Zone but still within the radiation. The aren't allowed to leave. The soldiers keep them in. They have tried to sneak out multiple times but the guards have set up boarders all around the area. Those who make it out are already dead.