Figurative Language In The Other Wes Moore

Throughout life, inspirational lessons dwell at every corner with that golden opportunity to take those lessons and inspire others. Speeches are excellent ways to teach lessons and motivate listeners since the speaker has the freedom to add emotion to their voices and also add dramatic pauses that create suspense within the crowd of onlookers. However, stories can lack that emotion the voice of a speaker gives it. So, author’s use different styles of writing such as varied sentence length for the reader to know the right pauses and imagery to create an impact on the reader’s mind. Wes Moore, the author of The Other Wes Moore, uses theses crafts of writing to make a claim in the beginning portion of chapter seven that the impermanence of life makes every moment too precious to waste.
The author includes a quote from one of the most influential people in their life, Colonel Murphy, who stressed the importance of hard work that matters due to life’s transience. Colonel Murphy stated that “‘[w]hen it is time for you to leave…you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were ever here’” (Moore 133). This had an impact on the author which caused him to view life differently and consider it more precious. To make this message powerful, the author uses imagery to take advantage of the senses and build them into something vividly real in the reader’s mind. The author cleverly wrote that “[t]he hard wooden pews forced [them] to sit up straight” (Moore 133) in order to create the sense of paying close attention. This helps the reader mentally visualize the scene which helps engage the reader’s