Lexicon : The Unknown Words

To make their writing more individualized to the character, the authors of this novel employ strategies like the first person point of view. In order to convey the character's frenetic thoughts, they also used abrupt sentences. The narrative depicts the life of a 15-year-old whose ambition is to acquire more words and money in order to alter their name and so launch their own company. They become very well-known in their industry, which helps them far beyond their financial and reputational objectives. They make the decision to return the favor by sharing their words with those who are in need, which makes them feel good about themselves. They have a name now: "Mr. Speak." However, they end up being Maximillion, the person they hated, and abusing their position to the point where they make others suffer and live in poverty.

This story was unique in several ways, one of them being the main plot of the story, and how it is not glued to a main path. It has the general plot and how it affected the character, but it jumps around by the means of journal entries, which is something not usually seen in most short stories. Besides the stories being first-person accounts about the person's life, I noticed that the entires were written with descriptive and abnormal capitalization. This was used to express the emotions the character was feeling at the time of the event that they were describing. Even so, I was left confused in chapter 2 which took me to re reading the first chapter to see how exactly they got where they were. In the end it was an interesting story with an interesting premise. I learned that human emotion can change at any time.

I liked how you showed different people's views in the first person. This helped me understand all of their positions and why they were doing certain things and why some people liked and disliked them. I also liked how short the thoughts and ideas were it made the story that much more entertaining.

I like the formatting of the entire story, and how each character or viewpoint, has a different entry. I like the idea of using dates in like a diary format. I also wonder if writing s affected by someone's word count or if they can write words despite having "no words". I also like how the dystopia is revolved around how words symbolize power and status rather than money controlling the world like it normally is.

One technique that I really liked in this story was how you had different time stamps. This makes the reader more aware of how much time has passed since the last entry as opposed to them being left in the dark if you didn't add them. I think this story does a good job at portraying people that have different personalities. I think having multiple authors probably helped with this also. Having these different people tell their side of the story means that the reader gets multiple viewpoints and therefore the emotional journey is even more intense. This is because when one person has an emotional high another person might be having a low. The reader doesn't know what to feel. I think that in this story there are multiple meanings. One of these is that humans value their own wants over what others really need. People will put their own success or money over other people's well being.

I really loved the concept of having three different viewpoints, all making diary entries. I think it is a really creative way of showing the reader all of the characters' thoughts. You also did a great job of instilling the dystopia, since it almost feels like all the characters care about is their word count.

I noticed that the format of the story was in chapters but also separated into entries. Each chapter had a different character which was really cool to see different perspectives. I also noticed that there was Burmese used which was really cool to see and at the bottom of the pages were the translations. The one thing that I loved about this story was how I could imagine and hear somebody writing this. The visualization made the story come to life. I also like how each chapter was up and down, the jobs were doing well but there were some speed bumps along the way. I think the biggest message that the story presented was around the idea of power and how you should use it. Humans behavior tends to lean towards gaining as much power as possible. I appreciate the moments in between chapters where characters like Baby Oil ButterBaugh realized that when they gained so many words they didn't think about what they wanted to do with them. This symbolizes the importance of thought before action.