Williams rhetorical stratagies

In the snippets of 'An Unspoken Hunger' read for class, there was definite rhetorical strategies. In the story Erosion, Williams pulls the reader into the person of Kinji Kurumada then betrays the reader by taking away his son in a completely unexpected twist.

In Winter Solstice at the Moab Slough, however, Williams draws the reader in a different way - through description. "It is quiet and cold. The heat of the summer has been absorbed into the core of the redrocks." His description of not only the surroundings, but also the blue herons and the hawk and the emotions those creature conjure. The use of quotes also shows the reader that the love of this land is not only his, but a shared venture, as if each person who has visited is irreversibly tied by that fact. Finally, his comparison of nature and love bring a strong emotion in the reader.

In Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place, the author uses yet another strategy in wordplay, specifically that of 'ecosystem' and 'Echo System.' Also, the repetition of short, often fragmented sentences both at the beginning and end create a certain rhythmic cadence that draw the reader in. The personification of nature is also a very interesting approach - the use of 'pansexual' and 'erotic' in terms of the forest are new and interesting. In addition, Williams uses the universal 'we' in his story, not blaming, merely bringing up the issues 'we' need to remedy.