Monday, March 3, 2008
In our group meeting we first took a few minutes to craft our own questions that we wanted answered in our pieces. Next, we read "6. Voice" and although we each came up with different quotes which jumped off the page, one which everyone agreed on was "...They'll have an easier time if you are willing to invite them to exaggerate or play around a bit: to read it as if they were whining or arrogant or depressed, or whatever the voice suggests to them." We understood that the purpose of the reading was to read out loud (maybe several times) to literally hear the voice within the piece. The discussion of the "five star quotes" led to a conversation about our own questions. For instance, Hadeler declared that he needed more description and dialogue in his piece. We told him he definitely had enough description, but perhaps he did need more dialogue. We believed that the dialogue would help add to the voice of the his piece. In this piece and in previous ones, he became defined as a relaxed and casual writer, gradually becoming more descriptive. We attempted to discuss each group member's voice after reading their pieces aloud, but had some trouble finding good words to describe the voice.
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