The Soloist so far, is an easy fun read, that makes my unfocused mind stay glued to the pages. The reason why I like this so much is because of Steve Lopez's unique style of writing. This is not the way I am use to reading, he writes more like an article then the structured novel type. I also enjoy this because it is a real life situation, and is based on someone living in our society.
Nathaniel Ayers is a poor, homeless, schizophrenic living in the slums of Skid Row, in downtown LA. A local newspaper journalist, Steve Lopez comes across Ayers. He finds this young man playing a violin, and notices two odd things. One, he is making some progressive noise, for a man living on the street. And two, notices a small disadvantage, his violin only has two strings.
After his first meet with Ayers, he becomes so amazed. Lopez periodically visits Ayers trying to find some personal backround information on his life. After a few more visits, Lopez Finds out that Ayers was a student who studied at Julliard, lives in Skid Row, and has a mental dissability, schizophrenia. This led to the dropout of the world known Julliard. I really enjoyed every page in the first six chapters, and looking forward to the rest of the book.
Focus: I know this might be boring to do, but can you closely check and see if I made any grammatical errors. I really think that I should start paying atttention to my writing as a whole, rather focusing most on the information. Thank you.
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I don't see any major grammatical errors, just minor typos that can be resolved through proofreading. For example, I don't think you meant to write,"This led to the dropout of the world known Julliard." Just take a bit more time reading through your post for flow and clarity.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the post itself goes, avoid falling back on plot summary as much as possible. I think you ended up doing a better job with the Chapters 7-12 post than this one. I would add, though, that even with that post, you might have developed a more thorough analysis of Lopez's work in response to the questions you posed.