The Rhinoceros Beetle is a passage that Susan Hawthorne wrote about a guy who's from town and fearless of anything that might be scary for other. He had several insects that he played with and used to threaten his classmates. Besides, he was the intelligent kid who knew about the insects most specifically and details. The tone of the story or passage seems to be scary. The word and language level of the author in this passage suggests the tone to be scary. For example, in the sixth paragraph, it says, " The boys lived beyond the town's border and grew up without championship, aside from the ubiquitous rhinoceros beetles and a range of other insects, reptiles, stuffed birds and a cat that refused to be held in his arms." In this phrases, the author uses diction like ubiquitous to be more concise and also helps him to build the tone of the scary. …show more content…
Similarly, this passage usage of simple and complex sentences also causes the reader to image in the order. For example, the first paragraph of the passage states," It was a public holiday on the day that he was born. His mother took this as good omen. She failed to notice the reason for the holiday." These phrases are simple sentences, but the author puts in the correct transition which makes it easy to understand or imagine in the chronological order. Besides, these sentences act as a flashback of the scary guy in the story. The causes of everything like imagery and being able to comprehend the story is the detail and it acts as boss of everything. In this story, the author described everything in the full feature. In the ninth paragraph, it says,"In the dry of the winter he would ambush frogs and those little lizards and dispense with their tails when grabbed." This sentence stated what happened clearly to the little lizard when he grabbed