When showing has an impact it is because the action is freighted with feelings in the first place.
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Afraid to die.” You don’t get much more direct than that. Direct and plain emotions stated like this don’t often have a strong effect, but they do in this case, I think, because we’re already gripped by an earlier, unspoken emotion: shame.
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capture pure emotion
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So how does that imagery itself cause us to feel? It doesn’t. It can’t. What causes us to feel something is a blind daughter’s worry over her father.
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literary novel. Doerr places high value on language, imagery, and moments
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Lying awake at night is not by itself going to cause readers to feel anything. Only when a situation has heavy emotional baggage will readers pick up that baggage and carry it
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The experience that Hemingway creates is not a mundane day-to-day washing of dishes or making tea. It’s not just any garden-variety insomnia. This ex-soldier is haunted by a brush with death itself.
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creates the experience
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As Hemingway intended, he merely
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ote the type of showing that Hemingway is using. This isn’t action, per se. This is the inner state of a man suffering from sleeplessness.