I need this done before Dec. 10 !!
From the novel 'Money' by Martin Amis
"In LA, you can't do anything unless you drive. Now I can't do anything unless I drink. And the drink-drive combination, it really isn't possible out there. If you so much as loosen your seatbelt or drop your ashes or pick your nose, then it's an Alcatraz autopsy with the questions asked later. Any indiscipline, you feel, any variation, and there's a bullhorn, a set of scope sights, and a coptered pig drawing a bead on your rug. So what can a poor boy do? You come out of the hotel, the Vraimont. Over boiling Watts the downtown sky carries the smear of God's green snot. You walk left, you walk right, you are a bank rat on a busy river. This restaurant serves no drink, this serves no meat, this one serves no heterosexuals. You can get your chimp shampooed, you can get your ____ tattooed, twenty-four hours, but you can get lunch? And should you see a sign on the far side of the street flashing BEEF...B00S3...NO STRINGS, then you can forget it. The only way to get across the road is to be born there. All the ped-xing signs say DONT WALK, all of them, all the time. That is the message, the content of Los Angles; Don't walk. Stay inside. Don't walk. Drive. Don't walk. run! I tried cabs. No use. The cabbies are all Saturnians who aren't even sure whether this is a right planet or left planet. The first thing you have to do, every trip, is teach them how to drive."
1. Annotate the passage, marking/ labeling literary/rhetorical devices.
2. Choose & identify two different literary/rhetorical devices and explain their function in the text.
Please don't give me any weird answers! There's no minimum for words, but the bigger the better!
Answers
Explanation:
In LA, you can't do anything unless you drive. Now I can't do anything unless I drink. And the drink-drive combination, it really isn't possible out there. If you so much as loosen your seatbelt or drop your ashes or pick your nose, then it's an Alcatraz autopsy with the questions asked later. Any indiscipline, you feel, any variation, and there's a bullhorn, a set of scope sights, and a coptered pig drawing a bead on your rug. So what can a poor boy do? You come out of the hotel, the Vraimont. Over boiling Watts the downtown sky carries the smear of God's green snot. You walk left, you walk right, you are a bank rat on a busy river. This restaurant serves no drink, this serves no meat, this one serves no heterosexuals. You can get your chimp shampooed, you can get your ____ tattooed, twenty-four hours, but you can get lunch? And should you see a sign on the far side of the street flashing BEEF...B00S3...NO STRINGS, then you can forget it. The only way to get across the road is to be born there. All the ped-xing signs say DONT WALK, all of them, all the time. That is the message, the content of Los Angles; Don't walk. Stay inside. Don't walk. Drive. Don't walk. run! I tried cabs. No use. The cabbies are all Saturnians who aren't even sure whether this is a right planet or left planet. The first thing you have to do, every trip, is teach them how to drive."
1. Annotate the passage, marking/ labeling literary/rhetorical devices.
2. Choose & identify two different literary/rhetorical devices and explain their function in the text.
Please don't give me any weird answers! There's no minimum for words, but the bigger the better!