Dagoberto Gilb

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Dagoberto Gilb
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Facts of Gilb

• Native of both Los Angeles and El Paso
• Been a visiting writer at the Univeristy of Texas
  and the University of Arizona
• Awards accomplished James D. Phelan Award in
  literature and The Whiting Award National
  Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing
  Fellowship
• Often his works reflect his experiences as a
  worker moving between Los Angeles and El Paso.
• 1994 published his 1st novel The Last Known
  Residence of Mickey Acuna

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Love in L.A.

• Love in L.A.

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Literary Terms

• Colloquial refers to a type of informal diction
  that reflects casual, conversational language,
  and often includes slang expressions.
• Ex. pg. 257 The dialogue between Jake and Mariana
  is very similar to everyday speech.
• Jake also uses words like kinda and doin
  which is an example of everyday slang.
• Image a word, phrase, or figure of speech that
  addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures
  of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or
  actions.
• Ex. pg. 256 In the opening paragraph Gilb uses
  many descriptive independent clauses that depicts
  the images of his dream car.
• , a cruise control for those longer trips,
  mellow speakers front and rear of course,
  windows that hum close, snuffing out that
  nasty exterior noise of freeways.

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Setting and Plot

• Setting the physical and social context in which
  the action of a story occurs. The setting is on a
  Hollywood Freeway.
• Plot an authors selection of incidents in a
  story to shape the action and give the story a
  particular focus. We are assuming that Jake is
  going to work but we are not really sure because
  of Jakes deceiving nature.

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Style and Tone

• Style the distinctive and unique manner in which
  a writer arranges words to achieve particular
  affects. The style of this story is very
  descriptive and this story contains a lot of
  dialogue. The descriptions are very long and the
  dialogues are very short.
• Tone the authors implicit attitude toward the
  reader or the people, places, and events in a
  work as revealed by the elements of the authors
  style. The tone of this story is calm at the
  beginning and then becomes persuasive.

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Irony

• Irony the literary device that uses
  contradictory statements or situations to reveal
  a reality different from what appears to be true.
  The irony in this story is dramatic irony.
• Dramatic irony creates a discrepancy between what
  a character says or thinks and what the reader
  knows to be true. Jake lies about his drivers
  license, his tag, his address, and his insurance.

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Theme

• Theme is a central idea or meaning of a story.
  It provides a unifying point around which the
  plot, characters, setting, point of view,
  symbols, and other elements of a story are
  organized.
• Theme of Love in L.A.- The unexpected can always
  happen. (the accident that takes place on a
  crowded highway in the assumed morning commute to
  work) You can never trust individuals on an
  initial meeting. (Jakes whole life was a lie,
  from whether or not he was truly going to work,
  from his tag, to the idea of him being an actor)

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Characters

• A character is a person presented in a dramatic
  or narrative work.
• Jake vs. Mariana
• Jake was very deceitful and his whole life was
  centered around lies.
• Mariana was the symbol for purity and she seemed
  to be very honest. She was also appeared to be
  very innocent because she still lived at home
  with her parents and she was not married.