Question Four

From page 59:
Then I heard someone shouting, ‘Yi, er, san!’, One, two, three…Guns fired. The sound ripped through my heart. I saw blood spatter everywhere. The bodies fell down. I screamed, and ran home as fast as I could.
Why does Li use short, sharp sentences here? What is the effect of his choice?

Li uses short and sharp sentences because i believe he was in a state of panic and shock at the time and wanted the reader to feel how he was feeling and how quick everything happened. It was a moment that terrified him and he wanted to let us know how he felt. The effect of Li's choice is that it makes us believe it was frightening, realistic and how scared he was at that time.

From page 59:
Then I heard someone shouting, ‘Yi, er, san!’, One, two, three…Guns fired. The sound ripped through my heart. I saw blood spatter everywhere. The bodies fell down. I screamed, and ran home as fast as I could.
Why does Li use short, sharp sentences here? What is the effect of his choice?

He uses short sharp sentences to make it dramatic, to make it sound like Li Cunxin is running and talking and running out of breath as he runs.
Almost everytime someone ways that it would infer that the persons running while the action's going on.

because it gets exiting and fun to read also if you were in a situation you wouldn't use long and boring language

Li uses short sharp sentences to make the reader like it more and to make the story more enjoyable for the reader. The part of the story also has a lot of action and it makes the story more enjoyable.

It makes the reader more interested and makes them want to read on to see what happens next. If you used long sentences the reader wouldn’t see how scary it would be.

Li uses short sharp sentences to show the drama of what was happening it puts people on edge a little bit.

i think Li has used this method to cause suspense among the readers and to make them read faster so we can feel like he was feeling scared and shocked it also shows how scared Li is.

Then I heard someone shouting, ‘Yi, er, san!’, One, two, three…Guns fired. The sound ripped through my heart. I saw blood spatter everywhere. The bodies fell down. I screamed, and ran home as fast as I could.
Why does Li use short, sharp sentences here? What is the effect of his choice?

Li uses sharp sentences to give affect a realistic effect showing how all of this happens so fast that you can't even tell whats going on around you.

By the time, Li would have been in a state of shock and frightening, and I see that’s the reason why he had chosen a short sentence also he is showing us how scary moment he was in and how fast everything was happening. The sentence makes me feel like he was in a horrified moment that he had to say it short to be safe.

When Li was in the situation of someone getting killed front of their eyes, he would have beed shocked and scared. He used short and sharp words to tell people how scared he was, and to make the situation more realistic.

From page 59:
Then I heard someone shouting, ‘Yi, er, san!’, One, two, three…Guns fired. The sound ripped through my heart. I saw blood spatter everywhere. The bodies fell down. I screamed, and ran home as fast as I could.
Why does Li use short, sharp sentences here? What is the effect of his choice?

Li uses short sharp sentences because he wants to show all of his emotion and he was very scared and when he says the sound ripped through my heart it could mean sort of like a bullet ripping through the heart.

Li use sharp and short words to exadrate gunshot being fired with the short 3 seconds for execution, he is in a state of panic because of the aftershock of people being shot in the head.

the reason he uses short sentences is to create the feel of panic or fear, like if someone was running away from some one and they were being helped by some one they would say very short senectaces to let the other person know on the shortes amount of time that they can

Li uses short, sharp sentences because he was scared and shocked and I think he wanted to make the reader feel the same as he does. Making it short and shape sentences made it sound like it was sudden and was scary. It’s a great effect he used.