{"id":1351,"date":"2018-10-30T23:17:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2018-10-30T23:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T03:17:05","slug":"personification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/10\/30\/personification\/","title":{"rendered":"Personification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Autobiography of Red,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>personification is used to bring the environment around Geryon to life and allows readers to feel what Geryon felt about his surroundings. The personification gives more information about the setting Geryon is in and whether it not it has significance to Geryon\u2019s experience. For example, in section IV. Tuesday, Carson describes the setting as, \u201ca black January wind came flattening down from the top of the sky hitting the windows hard\u201d (35). Giving a month (January) the characteristic\/ability to flatten and hit is used to contrast the unpleasantness outside and the pleasantness inside whilst hanging out with his mom. By enabling this use of personification, we can use the negative aspect of the quote to reiterate the importance of this weekly enjoyable moment for Geryon. Another example in which personification enable<\/span><\/span>s readers to understand the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>emotions<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of Geryon in a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>certain<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>environment<\/span><\/span>\u00a0is when Geryon\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>brother<\/span><\/span>\u00a0states that their mother would not be home for hours, at which point Geryon \u201cfelt everything in the room hurl\u00a0<\/span><\/span>itself away from him\u201d (31). Equipping his\u00a0<\/span><\/span>room<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the characteristic of hurling is inventive because it helps readers understand Geryon\u2019s emotions of feeling alone and powerless when he becomes aware that he will be alone with his abusive brother. Carson\u2019s use of personification provides readers a different understanding of Geryon\u2019s emotions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout\u00a0Autobiography of Red,\u00a0personification is used to bring the environment around Geryon to life and allows readers to feel what Geryon felt about his surroundings. The personification gives more information about the setting Geryon is in and whether it not it has significance to Geryon\u2019s experience. For example, in section IV. Tuesday, Carson describes the setting … Continue reading Personification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}