Second Trimester: Blogger Reflection

The Post I will be using for this reflection will be my Book Vs. Movie 2 post, because movies are my strongest suit because I can talk about them all day. The word or phrase that shows my voice in here would be this line" like the helicopter crashing into the building is a lot more suspenseful in the movie then it was in the book because you see the spectacular explosion  that John Mclane has to jump off the roof to dodge and then smash through a window.". This line shows my voice because I like to describe things like explosions and action, and I like to describe it in the fun and almost loud and over the top way. The way my personality is shown is that if people know me they know I go over the top with a lot of things and in the book it is more subtle then kaboom! Boom! Pow!, also they know I can get real passionate when it comes to films and other kind's of media. Also in my own writing shows that over the top and action like style were when I write my stories I like to put description of certain things like the big scare, like the  beaten up and bloodied camper walks through the forest as she continues to trudge over the twigs and leaves and as she passes the dark decrepit oak tree as the big grizzly blue monster jumps out extending it's claws, going for the slash as the camper dodges it and starts to run but falls on that one stick.

The type of Diction I used in the piece the most would be low or informal diction. The reason I use this type of diction is that I like things to be either real fast and kind of informal or things to be slowed down and formal, and the first of the two excites people more, and actually works as a good pay off to the slow build. An example of informal diction would be "Overall right now I think that the movie is better then the book and that is because John Mclane is a lot more action hero like and fun were as in the book Joe Leland makes you realize just how serious the events in the book are" The syntax I use is sentence length because I have been known to have long rambly kind of sentences rather then a quick just the basics.  The example in the post I will use to show this is " The characters are different then at the beginning because now in the book Joe has gone from being alone by himself to having this cop talk to him over a radio from the parking lot, in the movie they have the whole police squad show up and they are telling him not to be a vigilante." Over all I do think my diction an syntax is simple but at the same time gets the point across cut and dry, and also that going into detail can help the piece but can also hurt it.

Henry Ray has Escaped Setting

The setting of the book so far is a prison that Henry is being exucuted at becuase he is a serial killer and they sentenced him to death. The first part so far has him in his dark dingy cell and they walk him down a long cooridoor to the electric chair, because he is the last person i kentucky to be fried in the electric chair room. The room itself is dusty and dark because he is the first exucution in a long time and when they pull the switch the room gets a glow of electricity flowing through it. The setting right now is important to the fact that he is in prison for murder vut otherwise it is also were he "dies".
The prison so far isn't that important becuase from the looks of the cover and the back of the book it changes the majority of the stting to the woods, but I haven't got that far in the book so who knows the thing could take place in space or end with a killer teddy bear being the killer and not Henry Ray, I don't know. Overall the setting is supposed to be scary and it does kind of make your spine tingle but it's not run out the room you have to read the book with all the lights on and a self defense weapon in hand. Overall I like the setting but I think I need to read more to get the main setting of the book.

Henry Ray Has Escaped/ Reason I chose the book

The reason I chose to read this book is it is a horror book, not only a horror book but a slasher book, that sells itself as a throw back to the 80's slasher film. The reason that excites me is that I am a big slasher fan and I do genuinely like these movies and this is a love letter to all the Friday The 13th, or Halloween. Also the book itself was advertised on Fear Net as a slasher book so I thought I would get it off Amazon because the book sounds interesting. Another thing is the title just sounds awesome to me because they add the tag line that now he's back and that just screams slasher to me as a slasher fan. Also the book is around 267 pages so it would be a quicker read then the last book I read because the text was small so it was hard to read and that's why it took so long, so I want to wind down with some simple easy to understand horror book. Another thing I can think of is that the book is independently published and I like supporting independent arts, because without being small these writers and other artist can't get big. The other thing is that the story of a guy is executed then comes back to his child hood woods to go and kill anyone that trespasses on his woods so it sounds simplistic but that can still be a fun read for me as a slasher fan. My final and probably main reason was that the book is the shortest horror book I have read in a long time compared to a Steven King book that I read and this on the other hand is as simplistic as the slasher films it is paying tribute but not directly ripping the whole genre off and making fun of the genre but instead paying homage to horror movies.