So for example, we took the Genesis excerpt from the bible, emotionless and descriptionless, added the author's voice to it, capturing the essence, tone, and syntax of the writer.
This was our basis piece:
Genesis from the King James Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
These were the authors I tried to mimic:
-Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlet Letter)
-Martin Luther King Jr. ("Letter to Birmingham Jail")
-Patrick Henry ("Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death")
-Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death)
-Sandra Cisneros (Only Daughter)
Can you tell which mimic piece I wrote matches which author's writing style?
1.
1.
From the vast expense
of empty Darkness and Sky, God, in his ultimate edifice of power, created the
heavenly lands, tranquil yet magnificent. A face, painted brilliant blue,
lapped with waves, was spread across the void. Eternal light swept across the
land upon his request. Thou saw the pure, heavenly light, that it was made
right, deemed that it ought to be divided from the delicate evil of the night,
so that the two, black and white, would touch but never inter collide. Thus the
two born twins, of black velvety vile and joyous light, were named Day and
Night. At that point, the intervals of hours were firmly divided, with this
deed performed, the first day and night were established, and forced to carry
their roles til the termination of
eternity.
2.
2.
Ever since I was a
child, I can firmly remember, my father’s insistence to take my six brothers
and I to church every Sunday, rain or shine. Priest Francis taught the young
kids about bible scriptures, stories told the great wisdom of Solom or the mystical
Garden of Eden. Oddly, my favorite was the one he told of the creation of Earth,
how God, I presumed because he was
lonely, created la cielo, Heaven, and
la tierra, Earth. God crammed much
toil in his creation, shaping the formless land into sculpture, creating light
where light was absent. He severed the light from the darkness and laid the
sunken vastness down with millas y millas
of sparkling clear ocean. God named the divisions la luz del dia and la noche
for Day and Night. Sometimes when the Day starts to sputter out rain, I wonder
if it’s crying from aloneness, a loneliness that it can’t shuddered off.
3.
3.
My fellow brethren,
this is the opportunity of which we have become allowed with, to be able to
transform God’s creation of the Heaven and Earth into one lit with the light of
equality. Right now, as far as I can see, it is as if the Earth were still
without form, void in every corner, darkness upon our faces to one another, the
oceans drained away. Is this what God intended? To have our fellow brothers and
sisters walk among us, live among us, while discriminating one another? The
tide of the waters will change and flow through the valleys to become the seas,
the void will shape into strong mountains of justice, and God will lead us to
bring in new light to this dark, dark land! The Night will never again overcome
our righteousness; the Darkness and Day will be separated and all these 340 years
we have waited, we will finally be blessed to see the Light.
4.
4.
It is hard to imagine
such a time when the chains of Darkness and void have not been coiled around
our ankles, although I can presume in the near future years, if I may speak
truthfully, that these bounds will hold our dispositions down no longer. The
Majesty of Heaven, one I revere above all earthly kings, will rise and sever
the chains, and wash away the snares of our enemies, cleanse the ground with
oceans and seas till only the truth is left. The lamp of God shall light my
steps by which my feet are guided and soon after the light will illuminate the
whole of the world. Such Darkness and Light will be transfixed apart from one
another, but until then we cannot find peace nor hope.
5.
5.
There was a
considerable amount of contemplation that must have proceeded before the
creation of the Heaven and Earth, which in their simplest forms include very
complex internal systems. The beginning stages of God’s creation, the land,
was, obviously, without form and completely void of any living creatures. The
waters were put into the sunken down areas which comprised of most of the
terrestrial land (the waters in the Red Sea will later be raised by Moses as
described in the Old Testament with modern backings from Ron Wyatt). After the
water was instilled, the light was put forth and indeed, it was a relief after
the darkness that prevailed constantly. The light was separated by certain
unexplainable means of maneuvering from the darkness and God named them,
generically, Day and Night.
Answers:
1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Sandra Cisneros
3. MLK
4. Patrick Henry
5. Neil Postman
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