Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes. Washington: Square Press, 2007. Print.
"Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who do you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think its your fault-that if you'd tried better, or worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know people who'll hear about the people who died, and will say it was God's will. I know people who will say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?" (Picoult 91)
In the book 19 minutes, the poetic device used in this excerpt is mood. The mood of this quote plays with the reader's emotions which adds more meaning to it. This represent the significance because the book is all about the after math of death, and this quote helps people who may not have experienced the death of a loved one directly to understand the feeling of losing them and self blame.
No comments:
Post a Comment