Eight Yard Run

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“The pass was high and wide and he jumped for it.” Remember a moment in your life where you felt like nothing could stop you. Now try to describe it. Many people would find it rather difficult to describe their feelings in a time where they felt the most victorious. In “ The Eight-yard Run”, American novelist and playwright, Irwin Shaw shows a good example of describing said feeling, however, with the ex-jock, Darling, and his run during his football practice that took place 15 years ago. Shaw’s use of sentence variety helps convey Darling’s memory by creating descriptive imagery, developing a tone of an unstoppable force, and exaggerating with well used figurative language. Shaw effectively created images by using detailed sentences to describe how Darling maneuvered through the field. “ He had ten yards in the clear and picked up speed, breathing easily, feeling his thigh pads rising and fall against his legs, listening to the sounds of cleats behind him, pulling away from them, watching the others backs heading him off toward the sidelines.” The use of participle phrases being a main component in setting an image of the scene through Darling’s eyes. The added descriptive phrases put more detail into the setting around, and within Darling.…show more content…
The sentences in this text helped develop a tone by making it seem as if Darling was an unstoppable force. The way the absolute phrases kept coming also helping with developing the same effect. As Darling went on so did the

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