The Shallows
Passage that conveys Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, or Tone
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Commentary utilizing DIDLS and Appeals
“The computer, I began to sense, was more than just a simple tool that did what you told it to do. It was a machine that , in subtle but unmistakable ways exerted an influence over you. The more I used it, the more it altered the way I worked...I found I could no longer write or revise anything on paper. I felt lost without the Delete key, the scrollbar, the cut and paste functions, the Undo command. I had to do all my editing on-screen. In using a word processor, I had become something of a word processor myself.”
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In the prologue, the speaker, already starts to be suspicious of what the internet may be doing to him. Creating a foreboding tone as he starts to realize, that there may be more to the internet than what he first thought. He then starts to feel detached from what he was before, to the new person he was becoming because of the internet. After soon realizing this, he starts to …show more content…
He then proceeds to use imagery to visualize, in his mind, what he sees on a website. He imagines the web site as something evil, like it is ruining something sacred. To help support this, the speaker uses an Idiom, “hither and yon”, to further make the website an ominous place. A metaphor is used, that means that the book on the web site will be lost in the many other web sites on the internet. Because it is no longer linear, the speaker assumes that the book on the web site will no longer be a peaceful read. There are many links that diverge the reader from the original topic, but it’s not that hard to avoid. It may seem vast on the internet, but if you know what you want or where you're going, one may not become lost in the vast ocean, and instead travel a linear path, just like a regular