Paragraph:Stardust

This is a sample paragraph for Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

In this scene of Stardust, Gaiman utilizes a bold, pedantic style language along with lyrical description to evoke a sense of monumental immaculateness which surrounds the town. The town of Wall sits comfortably "on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland." The houses in the town "are square and old, build of grey stone." These solid images of the town suggest a sense of foreverness. The houses are made of stone and are the walls that protect it. As if nothing can harm the town but nature itself. There is a sense of peace that surrounds it though, a perfect little town jutting out toward the sky. Gaiman continues this very pedantic style language as he describes the roads leading way from Wall. The road is "lined with rocks and small stones" and it evolves to a road "paved with asphalt; followed further the road gets larger." This indicates that the town is actually small in size contrasting with the big imagery he depicted earlier. He evokes a sense of secure solitude, that maybe some travelers will find refuge, and the people in it find refuge from the real world.