Using Print to Match Meaning
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of fee, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street. OH! THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! NO! That’s not for you! With banner flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! Dr. Seuss is very precise about the words he uses in his writing. If he wants to emphasize a certain word, he will capitalize that word, and he expects the reader to put emphasize in that word when reading. Dr. Seuss also will capitalize the whole sentence if and use exclamation points to get his message across. Repeating Sentence Structure
The Waiting Place…
…for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting. When the main character goes to the waiting room, Dr. Seuss uses the word waiting a lot. He uses the word waiting to put stress on the fact that everyone in the waiting room stopped perusing their goals. Dr. Seuss gives countless examples of what different people do in the waiting room, and he does not want the main character to get caught in that trap. Close Echoes
It’s opener there in the wide open air.
You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Dr. Seuss does not include that many close echoes. The majority of the close echoes occur when he starts three sentences with you’ll. When he uses You’ll he is letting the reader know what they will be able to accomplish, just like the main character. The other time close echoes appear is in the form of the waiting room when he has every sentence either have a “to” or “to go”. |
Effective Use of And
And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. Dr. Seuss incorporates the proper use of "and" when he was writing. The first time he uses "and" he uses it to begin the sentence. The second time he uses "and" is to have the sentence rhyme. Runaway SentencesYou can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Dr. Seuss uses run on sentences to set the mood up for the situation that is unfolding in the story. At first the reader has a happy feel with the rhyming patterns, but as the story progresses so does the mood, and confusion about the waiting place. Questions SeriesDo you dare to say out?
Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right… or right-and three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Dr. Seuss also makes the main character ponder questions before they continue on their journey. I like how he only includes this type of questioning in one section, instead of having questions appear periodically through the story. |
Citation: Dr. Seuss. Oh, The Places You'll Go! Random House
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