Vinnie Cruz
No Way Out
- No exit was a story about a a group of people who were trapped in hell, and claimed to not know why. They all refused to tell each other about what there background was in order to find out why they all were there. They had three different character, Garson who was the male who had sense of everything was around him, but also avoided issues with Estell an Inez. When they Inez would try to talk about everything Garson would sit back and just listen, Estell would sort of mock Inez. Once they found out what everyone had done to be in hell they started to argue. Estell kissed Garson, and Inez tried to stab Estell, when Inez did that to Estell the gates of hell opened, but they still stayed in hell.
- The theme of No Way Out was that once you have developed your way of life, and decided to be a certain person, you will stay that way until you decide to change, so in your mind you are who you are in your mind, and that is how you will stay.
- The tone of the Novel is irony, when the gates of hell open up and they were able to leave, all three of them stayed in hell. Inez was the one girl in the whole novel who wanted the peace, wanted everyone to work together, wanted them to figure out why they were all there, but then she tried to stab Estell for kissing Garson, and Inez was always trying to seem to be trying to cope with everyone around her but yet she always wanted to be looking at herself and always seemed all about her.
- When the author focuses on a different character the syntax and diction stays the same, but the mood and tone chance. He wrote in a way that seemed to really express each character so that you not only were being told about the character, but you were also feeling the character.
- The author uses dircect characterization when describing the setting of the story. The author uses indirect characterization to describe the characters state of mind. He also seemed to use a bit a juxtaposition to show the irony in a lot of the characters way of thinking. The authors syntax and diction was key in letting the reader know that every single prop in the play, or story, was put there because it held a significance, and with his yntax and diction, it left you continuin to think about why certain things were placed in the setting, and what they stood for.
- When the author directly described the back grounds of each character, he tells you exactly what type of character they are by what they have done, which seemed to foreshadow each characters later actions. The author also directly tells us how there setting looks, they are in a room, dark, and alone with each other. The author used indirect characterization to show how the characters personalities were I ironic, Inez was wanting to solve the issue, shown by her drive to want to talk to everyone, but she was also self centered, shown through her obsession with her and a mirror. Also he used indirect characterization to show they are so in sync with there state of mind, when the gates opened up to lead them out of hell they still stayed in hell, because they were so use to the hell of there own state of mind.
- The characters seemed very static and flat, because at the end of the story, they had a chance to change their ways, and walk out of the gates of hell, but chose not to, they chose to stay the same way.
- At the end of the story I didnt feel a good connection with characters mainly because I am not very interested in knowing any character, or characters, like that in anyways, so I rejevcted them in a way.
