HW due May 7th

While I was reading the angle I was keeping in mind was how Gibson uses detailed descriptions to emphasis or portray certain moods or settings.

Pg. 72 “Smith sat very still, staring into the small brown eyes of death” – The sight of sitting very still can calm shows the seriousness and intensity of this situation.

Pg. 82 “[Molly] staring out the train window at blasted industrial moonscape, read beacons on the horizon” - This description depicts a lonely nature less world dominated by technology with molly is looking out into.

Pg. 85 “His eyes were a dark brown that matched the shade of his vey short military-cut hair”
-Gibson uses this man’s neatly short cut hair and dark eyes to represent what this man might possibly be like.

Pg. 86 “The right side of the street was lined with miniature scrapyards” – I like this quote cause Gibson’s descriptions does a nice job of letting the reader know exactly what kind of communities and society they are in.

Pg. 88 “It’s a horse, man. You ever see a horse?” – This quote uses descriptive writing to tell the reader how the characters feel instead of just simply telling them.

Pg. 88 “The alley was an old place, too old, the walls cut from blocks of dark stone” - The rest of this quote also does a good job a describing the setting almost to the point where the reader might be able to recognize smell.

Pg. 99 “Freeside is Las Vegas and the hanging gardens of Babylon” – Gibson uses familiar phrases to help describe a very unique and distant place that helps the reader connect.

Pg. 120 “The air here smelled of running water and flowers” – This is a nice quote of Gibson using the description of the setting to help depict the feelings of a character.

Pg. 129 “…until it vanished behind the band of the Lado-Acheson” – This quote describes the lack of “nature” in their society and it plays off in the emotions and attitude of Case.

Pg. 130 “…Case thought, watching the boy’s brown eyes” – The description the physical characteristics of the young boy are used to depict his personality without ever literally saying anything.