Style Mapping

A rainy day has brought us to lazy blogging in class today. We've been asked to depict and compare the style of writing among three books we have read. Each book has its own voice. My three choices are :Into the Wild, Death's Little Helpers, and Crank. Into the Wild tells a true and humbling story of Christopher McCandless and his quest to alaska. The words on the pages create a  language of denotative tone and sound almost journalistic as if I was reading a two hundred page newpapers article. But none the less, Jon Krakauer manages to create a sad melody with the explanation of Chris McCandless's death. Death's Little Helpers has a melody to it as well but the melody is almost haunting and gives the reader a chill down his or her back. The author comes across as both vulgar and blunt at the same time. However, crank brings writing that is very different to the table. Crank tells a story entirely in poem from. The language is dark and haunting, and creates both heart ache and fear. The author writes in a strictly connotative language.