Exercise 1

Barry's novel Cruddy exudes a bitter and juvenile tone which provokes a sense of rage and rebellion. This occurs on a "cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of a crudded-out town,." The repetition of the the word "cruddy" intensifies the narrator's harshness towards the current situation at hand. The excessive capitalization throughout the passage punctuates the child-like diction and promotes the thought that the author is an adolescent. The boldness of words in this passage enunciate the emotion which enhances the author's distress and foreshadows to future vengeance.