Yoon consistently writes sentences that are loose and strung out. An example of one of his loose sentences is, “And one of the children, high in the air, was Peng, that boy with the grey stripe in his hair, although they did not meet until they were older” (135). This is very similar to Ernest Hemingway’s writing style. There are numerous reasons why Yoon’s style of writing reminds me of Hemingway. He always talks about rain, which I have mentioned in previous blog posts. It has not rained in Brazil which shows that Yohan is happier there. When Yohan reflects upon his experience in Korea, there is rain which usually happens when Yohan loses someone. Hemingway wrote about the rain in his novel, A Farewell to Arms, symbolizing that it ruins things for those in love. The rain shows that happiness cannot last, which Yohan can definitely relate to. Yoon and Hemingway both have similar directness when writing about what is happening. Yoon gives straight forward information. He basically writes as if the narrator is saying what he sees. Some descriptions are vivid, but there is not much beauty in the language. What makes the story beautiful, is the content of what Yohan is experiencing. Yohan reminisces about his father on page 141. There is a sense of beauty here when the narrator says, “He imagined that somewhere underneath the glaze and the paint there remained his father’s hands.” This is not a vivid description. The narrator is referring to when Yohan went to his father’s shed. Even though the description is not vivid, it is still beautiful because it simply shows the reader what is going through Yohan’s head. Yoon could have just wrote that Yohan thought about his father in the shed, but instead he wrote how Yohan still feels his father in his presence when being in that spot that his father used to be. It is almost effortless how beautiful Yoon writes that sentence.
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“There is a sense of beauty here when the narrator says, “He imagined that somewhere underneath the glaze and the paint there remained his father’s hands.” This is not a vivid description. The narrator is referring to when Yohan went to his father’s shed. Even though the description is not vivid, it is still beautiful because it simply shows the reader what is going through Yohan’s head. Yoon could have just wrote that Yohan thought about his father in the shed, but instead he wrote how Yohan still feels his father in his presence when being in that spot that his father used to be.” <– Yes. It is also effective because it is an example of synecdoche, a part standing in for the whole. Beneath the paint remained his father's hands; beneath the paint is his father. The eternal memory of this man.
“And one of the children, high in the air, was Peng, that boy with the grey stripe in his hair, although they did not meet until they were older” <– This particular example is actually longer and more lyrical than what we generally associate with Hemingway, whose style is terse and streamlined syntactically: subject/verb, few clauses.
"It has not rained in Brazil which shows that Yohan is happier there." <– It does rain in Brazil in the beginning of the novel, and at least once later on. And please note what I said in my comment on your previous post. Rain doesn't *only* suggest sadness. You've got to look at how Yoon uses it in this context.
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