Blogging Assessment #1

Blogging Assessments #1

So after staying at Tom's house for quite a while, they decide to head on and leave the safety of his home and they start to head into the Barrow-Downs. It is like a giant graveyard where a battle was held but most of all of them dies so they buried them in mass graves. Most people avoid the Barrow-Downs for they think that it is haunted. While Frodo and the three other hobbits with him start to make their way through the Barrow-Downs, after a while all four of them fall down a hole into one of the mass graves I mentioned earlier. And while in the hole one of the ghosts of a former warrior that fought in the Barrow-Downs comes to life and tries to kill Frodo but Tom came into the hole right when Frodo was losing consciousness and stops the ghost. Tom then escorts them through the rest of the Barrow-Downs without any harm.

The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie. Which it could've been in the movie but got cut as a deleted scene, because there were a lot of those, but it was not in the original movie so it was seeing something new that I would not expect. One quote in the book is, "Suddenly, resolve hardened in him, and he seized a short sword that lay beside him, and kneeling he stooped low over the bodies of his companions. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt. There was a shriek and the light vanished. In the dark there was a snarl." The tone of this quote was gloominess, and fear. The situation of having no light and then there being a snarl in the darkness makes it gloomy, with fear put into it. (Blog Post #4)

 

1.    I generally use common words with a couple of advanced words thrown in, like I said gloominess but I also say simple words like mentioned. I use these words or phrases so that it is still easily able to read my blog without going over what happened and having to re-read it. You don’t have to stare at my blog trying to decipher what it is trying to say. But still these words can affect the reader and how they think, but maybe not as much because I don’t use the big advanced words which would have more meaning on the reader.

2.    The diction I am using in my blog posts is mostly low/informal diction. It’s not fancy, big words where sometimes you have to look up the meaning. I use words that are low, that most people can understand. Textual evidence in the story is, “The summary I mentioned above was not in the movie.” Anyone that looks at the sentence can tell what its saying. The sentence length I use is long. My post above may seem very long with a lot of sentences but it’s not; it has long sentences. Textual Evidence is that the post above is only 11 sentences but it seems very long.