Drums, Girls + Dangerous Pie (Late first imagery blog)

Title: Drums, Girls + Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

Prompt: Analyze the impact imagery and figurative language have on the meaning and tone of your text

 Imagery and figurative language have a big impact on all books. It provides not only entertainment for the reader but it adds understanding to how a character feels when doing something. There's a lot of instances where a reader cannot understand what the character is feeling.

Example: I feel so small around him. He is a skyscraper, I am a cottage.

 After reading that, you can understand that the narrator feels a lot smaller compared to him because he's a skyscraper and she is a small cottage.

 Steven is the main character that is in the school jazz band. He plays the drums and whenever he plays the drums, he shows imagery that gives me an understanding about his drumming experience. In the story he says, "Suddenly, a rare and amazing thing happened to me: I was in the zone. You know how baseball players sometimes talk about games when the ball seemed to be coming at their bats in slow motion, looking like a gigantic freeze-frame cantaloupe just waiting to be pounded?" Steven compares a baseball player's feeling to his "in the Zone" feeling when he was drumming. This gave me an understanding on what he meant when he said "in the Zone."