Blog #7 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

I read the chapter "Every Tongue Shall Confess," and I found a few techniques that the author used in their story telling. The author Packer starts the scene off with the description of an Aunt Alma’s room and how it compared to a hospital with the “wheezing” and “snoring”. Packer's descriptions are very complex and detailed, showing emotions and little things from different perspectives.

Packer's story telling techniques in this chapter put as a witness to everything that’s going on, by giving us the descriptive details, like the one about the catheter, and also the phrasing in general. Just the experts about the hospital rooms were so detailed, and the fact that the rooms in hospitals are always being used, and who knows how many people have been in the beds or died in the rooms. It’s like the rooms are wiped with a clean slate, and the memory of any past patient is cleared away. Also, Packer's use of certain quotes are done very well, and placed in places where they are easy to remember. I also noticed the references to the bible throughout the reading, and the words being capitalized by the preacher in order to show that he is talking loud and not softly.