Part one of term paper
Different authors use different styles of writing to express the ideas. The style of writing is what paints the picture of the story. In the story So This Was Adolescence, by Annie Dillard, there are two major traditional writing styles exhibited. The first style Illustrated in So This Was Adolescence is comparison/contrast. In this style ...

Part two of term paper
... herself to characters in books. She longs to become a woman such as those in romance novels. “I envied people in books who swooned.” She shows that by comparing herself to these characters that she strives to pass her adolescent stage. When she would become frustrated she tried to look for an escape such as people in books. She stated that “People in books split wood,” which would symbolize her longing for an escape from her monotony. The second style is visualization. Dillard uti ...