The Unheard (1-58)

Summary:
The memior The Unheard is Josh Swiller's story of Africa and deafness. Since he was born, Josh, was death, though it was oblvious to his family who just either thought he was slow or stupid. then when he was four and finally diagnosed as deaf he got his first pair of hearing aids. However, he still was not alone one of his three brothers were deaf and also his cousin. Plus he also had a teacher, Adele who taught him to lip read, hear, talk, write and read. When Josh left college he joined the peacecorps and with the peacecorps he decided to go to africa where he can find himself, making it a number of peoples first view of a white man. In Africa he encounters many new people and makes many new friends he even decides to work as a teacher(volunteer) to teach the death kids at a school he passes, between his peacecorps training.

Quote:
"Evening came and filled the shy with such reds and oranges it was like the valley had been slipped inside a sliced papaya."( Swiller 12)

Reaction:
As a writer od a memoir Josh protrays his writing with small clicks of personification, similes, metaphors and other literary devices. Though most of his writing involves alot of descriptions and thoughts he saw ans thought about. Swiller's quote above shows one of his clicks of similes he adds in. much of his work describes his difficulties with hearing and how alot of times after having someone repeat something a number of times he just guesses what thay are saying and nods. his writing technique includes a descriptive quality parts of his life with pieces of literary devices added in.