Lucy Grealy Autobiography Of A Face Summary
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Before I start, I just want to know who believe in the existence of fate. Personally I did not believe that fate exist in this world but after reading this depressing and inspiring story by Lucy Grealy, I saw how the crippled side of fate destroyed ones’ life. This author here, Grealy who wrote the book called Autobiography of a Face had a jaw removal because she had discovered cancer developing in her jaw. Fate is often twisted. It had turned a once sweet loving girl to face a cruel reality of losing a quarter of her face. This book had written all the struggles and many experiences of Grealy about the falls she had gone through.
Lucy Grealy grew up in a large family. Apart from her parents and herself …show more content…
Imagery is the most often one she used. I found lots of descriptive words throughout the book; you can actually form a picture of what is happening. Here is an example on page105, where her hair was growing back but she didn’t take care of it. “I hated the way it got oily and lanky and bunched up in tangles behind my head from lying on it so long.” So, you can imagine how her hair was so messed up by reading the words “oily”, “lanky” and “bunched up in tangles”. There’s also allusion. For example on page 189, “Matisse’s painting seemed to be about how simple was to see the world in a beautiful way. Picasso’s were about how complex, how difficult, beauty was.” In that quote, she made a brief reference of the two famous artists. Other than imagery and allusion, she also used alliteration very often. For example, “swallow my own smaller heat and less substantial air.” The words “swallow”, “smaller” and “substantial” are all started with the letter “S”. By using poetic devices, she can prove her writing skills and also grab readers’ attention. Also, I noticed that this book has no pictures. Normally, a biography would have some photos of that person, so that readers can learn more about him. But this book has no pictures at all, except for the cover and the back of the book. For the cover, there is a girl covering her face and at the back there is a tiny picture of the author. I think the reason why she didn’t put any pictures in the book is because she doesn’t want to show her face, and she doesn’t want readers to focus on the pictures, she only wants us to focus on the quality of her
Before I start, I just want to know who believe in the existence of fate. Personally I did not believe that fate exist in this world but after reading this depressing and inspiring story by Lucy Grealy, I saw how the crippled side of fate destroyed ones’ life. This author here, Grealy who wrote the book called Autobiography of a Face had a jaw removal because she had discovered cancer developing in her jaw. Fate is often twisted. It had turned a once sweet loving girl to face a cruel reality of losing a quarter of her face. This book had written all the struggles and many experiences of Grealy about the falls she had gone through.
Lucy Grealy grew up in a large family. Apart from her parents and herself …show more content…
Imagery is the most often one she used. I found lots of descriptive words throughout the book; you can actually form a picture of what is happening. Here is an example on page105, where her hair was growing back but she didn’t take care of it. “I hated the way it got oily and lanky and bunched up in tangles behind my head from lying on it so long.” So, you can imagine how her hair was so messed up by reading the words “oily”, “lanky” and “bunched up in tangles”. There’s also allusion. For example on page 189, “Matisse’s painting seemed to be about how simple was to see the world in a beautiful way. Picasso’s were about how complex, how difficult, beauty was.” In that quote, she made a brief reference of the two famous artists. Other than imagery and allusion, she also used alliteration very often. For example, “swallow my own smaller heat and less substantial air.” The words “swallow”, “smaller” and “substantial” are all started with the letter “S”. By using poetic devices, she can prove her writing skills and also grab readers’ attention. Also, I noticed that this book has no pictures. Normally, a biography would have some photos of that person, so that readers can learn more about him. But this book has no pictures at all, except for the cover and the back of the book. For the cover, there is a girl covering her face and at the back there is a tiny picture of the author. I think the reason why she didn’t put any pictures in the book is because she doesn’t want to show her face, and she doesn’t want readers to focus on the pictures, she only wants us to focus on the quality of her