Edwidge Danticat's, Westbury Court, uses parallelism in his writing. He/She is taking an event that happened to him/her and looking back at it from an older age. There are moments in which the writer is there in the moment, and others where he/she is reflecting back on the incident. It is all the same story and all the same feelings, just told from two very different points in the authors life. Alive, by Drummond is what I believe to be using accumulation. Her series are not as predominant as other we have read, but her segments go from one thought to another
Both authors writing make you think. Could this happen to me?, Are we all that vulnerable?, Should I be paying more attention? There are always things that happen, and sadly it is the negative that make you realize this, that make you think had I not been doing so and so, could I have changed this. Alive really made you look at the questions that I have previously mentioned. Here is a woman who has training in dealing with serial killers, who is trained in fighting and knows how to protect herself, but in the end she realizes she is just as in danger as any other female. It makes me think about how prepared am I really if something we to happen to me, like a man following me. Also, when I am home napping or watching soap net, would i notice a condo next to me on fire. I feel that you can prepare and prepare but until you are put in a specific situation, you will have no idea how you are going to react.
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