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How to Use This Book xxv Table of Contents – Readings (continued) Skills or Rhetorical Modes Showcased “Untitled” (A text wrestling analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K Le Guin) by Tim Curtiss However, Le Guin’s society may more closely resemble our society than first thought. The child, found in the basement tool closet of one of the town’s buildings, is described by the author as “feeble-minded” or “born defective” (Le Guin 5). It is kept there solely for the sake of the town’s happiness, enabling citizens in the streets above to reap joy from the festival. This compares to today’s society in the sense that people rush through life paying no attention to the needy or homeless, only seldom stealing a glance to reassure themselves that they do indeed have it better. Interpretation Analysis Pattern Synthesis Thesis Evidence (Quote, paraphrase, summarize) 429 “ Moonlight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” by Calum Marsh The first piece in the film, bubbling up nearly 10 minutes in, is “Little’s Theme”—a gentle, vaguely mournful minute of piano and hushed violin that begins as young Chiron stares into his lap in the booth of a fast-food restaurant, keeping every thought and feeling submerged. When the piece returns in the second act—Chiron now several years older, looking no less deeply inhibited as he sits sullen in his high-school classroom—the key is pitched way down, from D major to B major. Interpretation Analysis Pattern, symbol Synthesis Thesis Evidence (Quote, paraphrase, summarize) 432 “Inauthenticity, Inadequacy, and Transience: The Failure of Language in ‘Prufrock’” by Shane Abrams Prufrock frames his failure to adopt an archetype using a strikingly dehumanizing synecdoche: “I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas” (73- 74). Prufrock finds it more fitting that he be separated from the species than to continually find himself inadequate to the measure of social roles. Interpretation Analysis Pattern, reference Synthesis Thesis Evidence (Quote, paraphrase, summarize) 433