In every question asked, there is always a grey area or hesitation. Whether it be as an adult or a child. Depicting the child, Langston Hughes gives the reader a verbal picture by using dialogue. On the other hand, George Orwell emulates an adult; using vivid descriptions relaying a concrete setting.
"Langston, why don't you come? Why don't you come and be saved? Oh, Lamb of God! Why don't you come?"(paragraph 10, "Salvation") Hughes gives the dramatic scene of a church where people are being saved and yet it seems as though there is trouble as Auntie Reed repeats herself again and again. Langston Hughes was known as the "Bard of Harlem" telling the tails of his ethnicity with rich details as to give the reader a free flowing understanding of his writing. "The preacher preached a wonderful rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and lonel
Far from a child's world, George Orwell writes of a place where no children exist. "It was...a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells. ...Silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next two weeks." (1) The reader sees a dark cell with a hunched over, unpredictable figure in it just waiting. The words are etched in the reader's mind with their darkness and hatred. These are words of an adult. Orwell writes seriously, almost to scare the reader with his words. On the other hand, he uses an interlude that is unexpected. "A dog came goodness knows whence." (6) Orwell brings the dog into the picture and it acts like an ange
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