Question

Read the following excerpt from the article "Vision, Voice and the Power of Creation: An Author Speaks Out," by T. A. Barron, and answer the question that follows:

Yet deeper than character, or even place, is another concept: voice. More than any other doorway to the imagination, I find this one the trickiest to open—and the hardest to close. For a character's true voice is heard, its tones, cadences, and ideas are long remembered.

The ancients [people from ancient history] used anima, in fact, to describe breath as well as soul. That is wholly appropriate, for in the breath—the voice—of a character lies its essential spirit. If the writer can truly hear the voice of a character, so will the reader.

Which phrase explicitly states the author's attitude about voice? (10 points)


It is the trickiest door to open.

The ancients invented it.

Only the writer hears it.

The reader will always hear it.

Answer 1

The voice: It is the trickiest door to open.

El escritor se refiere a que tenemos la capacidad del habla, pero no la sabiduría para utilizarla. Sabemos, como cultura general, que el poder se encuentra en las palabras; e incluso, los lords medievales utilizaban su palabra para jurar y servir, y era este el único medio válido.

Los ancianos sabían el poder de esta, y la única explicación que podían dar, era que provenía del alma.

Es la puerta más difícil que abrir, sería una metáfora: no sabemos utilizar bien el poder del habla.