Noor, meanwhile, walks a harrowing tightrope: working at her wrathful uncle’s liquor store while hiding the fact that she’s applying to college so she can escape him-and Juniper-forever. Now, Sal scrambles to run the family motel as his mother Misbah’s health fails and his grieving father loses himself to alcoholism. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends they are family. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.
Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. " All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in." - New York Times Book Reviewįrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents. For instance, “she was breathless with anger” can be used in a sentence like, “Breathless with anger, she stood up and walked out.’ Oh, and you can probably change some of these to describe hatred or loathing.Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER The ones that contain a verb can be turned into a phrase. You can adapt them or mix them up a little, and they’ll probably make you think of more. A few of them hint at physiological reactions to the emotion of anger, and some employ similes.
Obviously, this isn’t a comprehensive list. My list of ways to describe facial expressions and my list of body language and gestures can both help in showing the emotion.īut once in a while, you want to describe your point of view character’s internal feelings of anger. When you’re writing about anger, there are a lot of ways to show the emotion…through what they say, how loudly they say it, what they’re thinking, and their actions (such as aggressively loading the dishwasher.) Here’s something I can’t stress enough, though. With that in mind, here are ways to write anger descriptions in a more vivid way than “he felt angry.” Even when you’re just looking for a few words or a phrase, you can get bogged down. I know lots of writers also get stuck on how to describe frustration in writing-or annoyance, or flat-out rage. If my main character, Cassie, got angry enough, wild animals attacked whoever pissed her off, so she became very aware of how her anger feels. When I was working on The Phoenix Codex, I sometimes took way too much time thinking about ways to describe anger in writing.
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