Blog #4: Style Analysis Model

Lost and Found 

By: Colson Whitehead

The New York Times

• The surface culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is: Food, Dress, Language
• The deep culture component of the Iceberg View of Culture addressed in this memoir is: Personal Space, Social Interaction Rate, Concept of Self 
• This is because the author is trying to define his personal New York where he will want to spend most of his time.
• The turning point of the memoir is when he starts addressing his personal New York City and how it varies from everyone's viewpoint. 
• The author shows he has changed after this turning point by discussing the differences between his view on New York City and the millions of different views others have of the same city. 
• A paragraph that demonstrates what I like about this writer's style is:

There are eight million naked cities in this naked city -- they dispute and disagree. The New York City you live in is not my New York City; how could it be? This place multiplies when you're not looking. We move over here, we move over there. Over a lifetime, that adds up to a lot of neighborhoods, the motley construction material of your jerry-built metropolis. Your favorite newsstands, restaurants, movie theaters, subway stations and barbershops are replaced by your next neighborhood's favorites. It gets to be quite a sum. Before you know it, you have your own personal skyline.

• The author uses Imagery to create a mental picture in the readers mind of what his personal New York City looks like. One thing that I found interesting about his writing is the variation in punctuation that he uses. By adding these things to my writing I will be able to articulate my ideas more effectively. 

Link to the memoir