Lowry s memorable writing can be savored and weighed. Drama can function as an amplifier to hear the voice within their words. As a part of his acceptance, Liam comes to admit that his father s illness doesn t translate into being unacceptable in or unwanted by society. This novel provides students with opportunities to heighten their conceptual understanding of expository writing through comparing, contrasting, arguing, and explaining a substantive issue. Expository writing borrows from both narrative and descriptive writing.
Adolescent literature is a natural avenue to study exposition.
Students are able to gain a sense of how this form of discourse takes shape. Writing helps students to explore the extent of their knowledge and perspective on a topic, as well as discover what they do and don t want to say about it. Adolescent writers are challenged to provide more information about, more reflection on, more wrestling with the topic as they reach to write what they mean and mean what they write. Writing a juggling act requires the author to balance content, structure, and meaning along with perspective. If our adolescent writers are to mature as language users, they must be able to base their writing on clear, responsible thinking.