In The Story of The Eyewitness Jack London is describing what happened after the San Francisco earthquake. London uses vivid language to better explain what happened. The language he uses in the story will help readers better understand what the damage from the earthquake did. London uses first person, descriptive words, and talks about how much damage was actually done to completely immerge his audience into the story.
London uses first person perspective in his story about the earthquake to make the devastation seem more personal. First person is vivid language because it can better help the reader to understand what the author is saying. “At nine o’clock Wednesday evening I walked down through the very heart of the city. I walked through miles and miles of magnificent buildings and towering skyscrapers” (London par 12). This quote is one of the many sentences that London uses first person to describe what has happened in the city. It helps us understand what the Earthquake has done to San Francisco and allows us as readers with see the damage that has been done. “I stood at the corner of Kearny and Market, in the very innermost heart of San Francisco. Kearny Street was deserted. Half a dozen blocks away it was burning on both sides”(London par 13). This quote is another example of the way London uses first person to create a vivid images of the
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In “The Story of an Eyewitness” Jack London uses vivid language in different ways to make his story easier to understand. London uses first person, descriptive words, and talks about how much damage was actually done after the Earthquake. He uses all these things in a way that tells his story in a way which is so much more understandable rather than just telling a story without these things in it that would make it hard to understand and readers wouldn’t know what happened and when it