Author Function: Scribbler
Notion: Hate
You’re making me hate you, you know
that right? The way you hold your cup when you take a sip of your “would’ve
been hot but now it is just sort of stale” coffee. The way that you grind your
teeth when you’re bored... for god sake just go out and do something instead. Or
what about the way that you always complain about things that are completely
unnecessary? Do you ever stop to think about your life? What it could be if you
just shut up for a couple of seconds and just did what had to be done at that
precise moment?
Reflection:
This short text was made on the
background of the first word that came into my head, namely ‘hate’. I developed
the text on the notion that the speaker in the text hated a specific someone,
that he/she would go on to describe what things he/she hated about this person.
This text could easily be flipped around by turning the key notion of ‘hate’
into something like ‘love’. All that would be needed to change this notion is
just a few key words and a sentence or two and the whole text would have an
entirely different meaning. In retrospect I would’ve gone with a different
author function instead of the scribbler function, I could’ve seen the text
working even better as a poem, since it deals with the heavy notion that is ‘hate’.
I think a poem can always be used as long as one knows the formula.
ReplyDeleteWhat you did here seemed to have made way for you being honest and free with your language.
You're right that scribblers tend to go for lighter, more unfocused material. Hate, though, can work in any function. A poet would perhaps be good, but mostly I think hate is expressed in the prose genres.
ReplyDeleteYou use a lot of rhetorical questions - again, perhaps not the most common rhetorical device for a scribbler...