A shiver ran from the top of my head clear down to the tip of my toes, for I realized that meant they already had there henchman well deployed, and were ready to strikeвЂќ(1238-1239). For example, he writes вЂњThe meanest looking one of all spread his lips out wide and actually smiled at me.

The way the madman describes these people makes you feel as if these people are animal like. The madman was so worried about saving the children because of his little sister who died, and all the other little kids who are going to grow up like their parents.The use of descriptive diction affects the tone of the madman portrayed throughout the story making the reader understand how mad the madman actually is. The last sentence of the story says вЂњSave The childrenвЂќ(Puncher 1246). The madman is also very worried about saving the children. This would cause the people in the town to stop thinking others are food and actually treat people as friends. He also says the people in the town can eat other things instead of eating people. The madman goes on to say that everyone can be different with different beliefs. The madman has a long conversation with his brother and people in the house about how they can stop being cannibals. The madman tends to focus more on the little things that doesnвЂ™t matter to anyone, but he is very affected by the small things. The madman even goes so far as saying since his owner is a cannibal the dog is a cannibal too. The madman points out how the dog must hate him at the end of each journal for about two journal entries.The madman focuses so much on how much the dog does not like him. The madman even writes about how the dog was looking at him. Many times the reader could infer how crazy the madman was because we were able to see his erratic thought process.As the madman tells his story through his journals he conveys to the audience a very serious tone.ДЄs the madman makes these entries his interaction with these people are very serious to him. This allowed the reader to feel sad or mad when someone else talked bad about the madman.

When the author first talks about the madman describing why everyone thinks heвЂ™s mad it allows the reader to become emotionally attached to the madman before knowing what everyone else thought of him. It allows the reader to form their own opinion about the madman before you find out everything else about him. The author does a good job of not really giving away why the madman is not liked and why everyone is staring at him. This helps the reader grow a connection with the madman and not see him as crazy like everyone else does. You are able to think like the madman and understand what his thought process is throughout his experiences. A key example on why writing the madmanвЂ™s stories as journal entries is how you feel as if you are in the madmanвЂ™s head. The reader is able to feel how it is to be in the madmanвЂ™s body, and to be able to see what he sees throughout his journey. The use of this is to make the reader picture whatвЂ™s happening around the madman. When you have journal entries of the madman, it makes the reader feel as if heвЂ™s real. This is because of the use of her writing format. Which this story is not it is clearly fiction. Also, the reader is able to feel like the story is nonfiction. When the author is able to write in first person it allows the reader to feel more connected with the character. The use of having it in a journal format is being able to write in the first person. Being able to hear the madmanвЂ™s thoughts through writing really shows how he feels and his emotions to certain things. In this story, the reader is able to engage with all the emotions and feel disorientated from the madmanвЂ™s journals by the tone, format of the story, and the dramatic irony giving sympathy to the madman.Author Lu Xun wrote this story as a journal and changed the normal format of the story affecting the way the reader normally reads a story. At the end of the story the narrator tells the reader that the madman is now awaiting a government position. Which in turn would make people in the town not feel like they are always someone elseвЂ™s meal. As he fights to explains to his family that cannibalism is something that can be stopped. When you start to dive into the story the people believe heвЂ™s a madman because, he will not concede to the hellacious idea of eating people around him and being a cannibal. The story вЂњDiary of a MadmanвЂќ written by Lu Xun is a story about a Madman who writes in a journal over a period of time explaining the people in his town and how obscured they were.

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