Marshfield Dreams: When I Was A Kid by Ralph Fetcher includes several narrations of his most significant memories from his childhood. His adapting styles of writing make this book suitable for children and adults of any age, but through out it, he uses writing techniques which even an adult reader could be oblivious to but a young child cognizant of the same.
"What words were hidden-unborn,unwritten-in all that unused ink?" (Fletcher,2005,pg.44)is the concluding sentence in one of Fletcher's narrative, and I have felt deeply passionate about this sentence because it stirs the writer inside me, evidencing that all writers feel the same satisfaction when they complete a piece. Here he takes a simple object, his pen, and makes the reader feel that is something different altogether, using a form of symbolism.
In another vignette of his where he is describing his home, he states,"More than once I tried and left behind one of my sneakers, a lost sole sunk forever at the bottom of the swamp."(Fletcher,2005, pg. 5) In this sentence, he has a play on words, the word 'sole' taking place of its homonym 'soul', tying in with his lost footwear and love for his little
town.
By using these, and other techniques of the same manner, Ralph Fletcher proves this writing ability.
