Journal #9: Pastiche 2

Zach sat on his great throne while sipping lemonade through a straw, as he watched his friend Jim paint the fence in his back yard.
"Come on der Jim, put yer back into it!  I haven't got all day!" 
"Yes Zach."  Jim sighed.  He had been working on this fence for at least an hour or so and had not taken a break.  It wasn't fair, Zach had been sitting on the lawn chair this entire time and had his sister going to get him lemonade and snacks.  Jim thought back to the day before where he had accidentally broke Zach's grand bike.  He remembered the painful shock to his arm as Zach's fist collided with it.
"Jim there's no time to day dream, get going with it!  Yer not gettin' paid ya know, so ya may as well finish it up as fast as ya can!"  Zach screamed with authority.
"Yes Ah know." 
Jim finally finished within another hour, and sighed with relief.  Then he looked up to Zach who just gave him a smile and pointed to the dog house with buckets of paint laying on the ground beside it.


This pastiche shows the theme of....
- Superiority, the way on which a person or multiple persons show that they have control over another.

Literary Terms and why I used them....
1) Diction
- I chose words such as great throne and grand to represent Zach's superiority, making the character seem like he was very superior to Jim.  Also, I chose the word "up" to indicate that Jim had to look up at Zach, making it seem like Jim was as of a lesser status to Zach.

2) Flashback
- The flashback was in the middle of the pastiche where Jim was recollecting the day before.  Jim had broken Zach's bike, and was punched because of it.  This associates with the theme because it shows that Zach uses aggression to show his superiority over Jim.

3) Dialogue
- I made Zach have longer more demanding sentences and Jim have short responses to show the reader that Zach had superiority over Jim.  The dialogue shows the superiority that Zach has because Zach is more demanding while Jim seems to just do what Zach is telling him to do.