Analysis Of A Year After Fire Destroyed Paradise By Zurina Wright

Zurina Wright A Year After Fire Destroyed Paradise This story seems structured in a flowing style going from tragedy evidence, the rage against the corporation, rebuilding, and finally somewhat functional after the disaster. With an emotional tone, this article focusses heavily on the residents of Paradise after the fire’s destruction. Divided into each section, this story has mini stories concerning the disaster and recovery. The usage of quotes and their placement is one example of how the writer keeps the story going and makes an impression on the reader. The first mini story contains one example with the quote from Mrs. John, a school superintendent explaining how this is one of the worst times of her life, but she has to be ready because “We have kids coming.” Sort of a matching quote or at least similar is when the writer includes the imagery of Ms. John in the rubble of her school, dressed in the school’s sweatshirt.

It is a push and pull quote. Another example of this can be seen how the writer describes Mr. John being shaken up after seeing a burnt body, followed by the quote saying “my guts are torn up because I gave my whole life to teach people what to do and it just didn’t work.” These two elements pair together perfectly as the transitional sentence does not say what Mr. John said, but relates to how he felt and matches the context. For almost every quote the writer includes, she has a sentence to set it up and relate it to what is about to be said. Solid transitions. It appears the author uses a structure / nut graph of introducing the main material of the story in the first one or two paragraphs, then directly goes into a quote from the focus of the story. The first mini story relays the most data, introducing and explaining what