Blog Response #7
Imagery is key to capturing the reader's imagination and taking him/her on the adventure within the book. All 4 authors use several different techniques to paint a picture in your mind of the scenes within the plot of the book. Share two or three images that have been captured in your mind through the author's word choice. Why are these images so vivid, and how did the author manage to accomplish this task? Be sure to include specific details of what you envisioned through the author's words.
in the book night the author shows imagery by describing what the different people are doing in each scene. First off when they are half way to the first concentration camp there ways a lady screaming, he put the scene down to the last detail, describing everything that she was saying to the people who shutting her up. The second one is when Elie saw the guard having undisclosed things to a underage girl he made it so you felt like you were the one who accidentally peaked in. The third and final was the selection days, he gave everything that happened from the lists that everyone was afraid of to how fast they were running or how unalived they look at the final one.
ReplyDeleteThese images are vivid because will reading this book you feel like your in first person because this book was written by a real survivor of the holocaust. The most used type of technique used was descriptive by the way he can make you see the whole picture in just 150 pages
Malala also describes what the different people are doing in each scene. Malala also used very great details describing the military camps in Malala's country. Malala also described how she spoke out to everyone in all her speeches about her opinion and she never kept quiet even after all the threats from the Taliban. Malala also talked about how she was on the verge of death after she got shot and described what she felt when she woke up in the hospital room. Malala also wrote this book which states her real story in life.
DeleteIn the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" the main characters are women and they end up getting abused by their husband because they "misbehaved" and when Hosseini writes those scenes it feels like I was the one see through the other's eyes and even reciving the beatings, just like your author did.
Delete"A Thousand Splendid Suns" describes every scene with immense detail and sometimes it seems like a bit much but like Maggie said he describes things like the husband abusing the wives, being blown up by a rocket or a rocket hitting next to you and how it affected everything and everyone around them. I can see a resemblance with the detail.
DeleteThe lady screamining in the begining of the book is also so memorable and vivid to me because she had warned all of the jews and none of them believed her.
DeleteWhen Elie found the man in charge that was a terrible seen how they laid him on a crate and beat him with a whip i cant imagine the pain he was in
Deletein the book I am Malala it also descriptive and it almost just play in your head as you read.
DeleteIn Night the selection that splits Elie and his father and Elie runs after him makes you feel like you were the one running from the S.S soldiers
DeleteOne image I have captured in the book "I Am Malala" is when Malala described the feeling she felt when she woke up in the hospital after she got shot. Malala talked about how scared and alone she felt. She had no idea what was happening and had no familiar faces around her. She kept wondering if her father had gotten shot too and was so worried about if her father was okay. Malala managed to accomplish this by using lots of descriptive details about how she felt when she woke up. Malala also talked about the pain she felt in her head from getting shot near her brain and how she prayed so much that she could live. The other image I envisioned in this book is when Malala talked about how many people visited her in the hospital after she got shot. Malala managed to describe this scene by using very descriptive details as well as to how crowded she felt in the hospital. She talked about how the hospital was so full that they set a limit of the number of people who could go inside of Malala's room. They told others not to go in there if they were not her immediate family but famous people from all over the world went into her room anyways. It was crazy and amazing the amount of people who went to visit and support Malala at the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThis book seems so interesting, it's kind of the opposite of my book with Laila. Her father was a teacher and made her go to school until the war started and he had to take her out of school, she did not get a further education besides those days she had gotten to go to school.
DeleteIn the book i am reading, my main character ishmael witnesses a lot of bad things. The author describes what he sees and it creates a picture in your head. It sounds like this author does the same thing.
DeleteI couldnt imagine what it would be like fir all the other children watching one of their classmates shot in the head for going to school
DeleteNot only does she explain it but the pictures in the book actually give you a real picture so you can imagine what she looked like in the hospital and then look at the real picture, I like this because sometimes you can imagine something the complete opposite of what it is but, in this book, you get the real image.
DeleteIn my book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" Khaled Hosseini paints the image of rockets flying through the sky and blowing house and roads up in Kabul. This scene was very vivid in my mind because of the words Hosseini used to represent the sound of the rockets whistling passed, crashing into the ground, and the way he descibed how the wind picked up and how people were blown back from where they were standing. Another scene Hosseini made vivid was when Laila and her family found out her brothers had died in battle. Hosseini used very thought out and discripted words to show how devistated Laila's mother was when she heard the news. Hosseini described Laila's father becoming very white and pale in the face and her mother screaming and tearing at her hair. Hosseini goes even farther hinting at Lail's mother wanting to commit suicide because she wants to be with her sons again. Even though Hosseini never comes right out and says the word suicide the reader just knows because of how Hosseini set the mood of the scene.
ReplyDeletei think with our books being so different with the situations our characters were put into it makes it hard to relate to one anothers book but i think our authors make it really easy for us to picture the stuff they have been through just by using words
DeleteIn "I Am Malala" Malala described how girls schools were getting blown up by the Taliban. Malala also used great detail as to how she heard the schools getting blown up and people getting shot throughout the night. Malala thought that her dad had died too, but he fortunately did not. Malala was devastated when she thought that her dad had gotten shot too. Malala's dad also became very sick/ unwell we heard that Malala has gotten shot.
Deleteone image captured in my mind from the book a long way gone would be the hot walk they took to the village and how the heat was pounding on them and the wanted to stop but couldn't and handle the burning feeling on their feet from walking so long and the hot ground on it. another image i can visualize is the throat slitting competition and seeing the people and i can picture how it goes down to both men have a knife they slit from one side of the throat to the other. i think they are so vivid because he manages to go deep into detail without it being too graphic or uncomfortable and the author is also the one who went through it all, so it is easy for him to put it into words on how things were or hoe harsh the conditions were as well like when he talked about it felt like his feet were on fire from the heat of the ground. i also think it the author is able to make the details so vivid because it's like a part of his life that he won't forget and will remember every last detail of it so he wants the readers to know what is was like for them without traumatizing them.
ReplyDeleteThe one about the hot feet, I think we can all relate to that. walking on hot pavement on a summer day or the hot sand on a beach. I'm sure what we are used to is nothing compared to what these people go through.
DeleteThese scenes still sound pretty graphic like the throat slitting the details were probably very disturbing even if the author tried not to because that's just something you can't sugarcoat.
Deletei just couldent imagine seeing your freinds and family getting there heads cut off in front of you
DeleteThe part about the feet reminds me of my book NIght, The jews were forced to run through the deep snow over night and there feet were so cold most of them couldnt feel there feet, Elies foot had a hole to drain the pus out of his foot and he couldnt feel it
DeleteIn my book A thousand splendid suns I see Miriam sitting outside her father's house waiting for him to come home. I imagine the gate to be huge and very detailed since Jalil is rich and has a huge home. It is memorable because Miriam was just a young girl with dreams to live with her father and have the "good life" when her father did not care one bit that she was sitting outside of the house and let her sleep outside like and animal which resulted in her mother to hang herself and get married to Rasheed who would later make her life hell. Another is when Laila was struck by the rocket, and she met Miriam and Rasheed. That rocket killed her parents and left her with nothing. This resulted in her staying with Miriam and Rasheed then she ended up marrying Rasheed and "having his baby" when it is actually Tariq's baby. Laila ended up being trapped into a family she didn't have a choice to be in. This really struck my attention to remember this because she is very lucky to be alive even though it may not seem like it because of all the abuse she encounters, and she was pregnant how did she not have a miscarriage from the blast and the rubble on top of her? Those are some very memorable moments in my opinion.
ReplyDelete"I am Malala". During the part where the Taliban's are in Pakistan killing people. He describes this very vividly. where everyone get shot, they call it the bloody square and they let their bodies lay for everyone to see. When he was talking about this I envisions a lot of dead bodies laying in the middle of the road and Taliban's with ak47's and Taliban snipers in the rooftop buildings. another scene Malala Yousafzai describes good is when they have to leave their country and stop at all the army checkpoints. While she is describing this I envisioned her whole family loaded up in an army vehicle with a hoop like roof of the back. Everyone all piled in there like sardines and every time they get to a check point there are army guards standing there with guns and dogs and they make everyone get out and they make sure nobody is a threat.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lot like my book and the bloody river that my character witnesses. It is crazy to think about war and all of this stuff happening right in their own city.
Deletecole i like how you use your imagination to picture these images from the book the author of malala must have good wording to describe these images. i know in my book kite runner it really helpes to picture what is going on in my mind so i really get a sense of whats happening.
Deletemy book Night also had a scene in that they were packed in like sardines
DeleteIn Kite Runner it doesn't necessarily say there are dead bodies laying in the streets from the Taliban, but it does talk about how most of the buildings are destroyed. Adults and even children are sitting at the corners of the streets asking for anything. Children have to find things to play with, but they can't be disruptive otherwise the Taliban will kill them as well.
Deletei agree this book i also read and i think malala did a very good job describing events that happened during her childhood. i also think she did a good job putting imagery in our heads when she described that scene about dead bodies laying in a pile with a note on why they were killed.
DeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah uses very gore and descriptive writing. He does not leave out the parts about the prisoners getting their heads chopped off or Ishmael shooting back fighting for his life. This makes the reader paint a picture in their head and can visualize what is happening. I think he does this to show the reader what he actually went through in his life in Sierra Leon and the struggles that he had to overcome. During the book i can vision 12-16 year old boys with their ak-47s in their hands fighting for their lives. This is sad to think about because this is what goes on in other countries.
ReplyDeleteSounds like your book has lots of gore. It would be very tough living in another country. It can really make us grateful that we don't have to watch any of that happen or have it happening around us.
DeleteIn my book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" Hosseini also uses gorey details and words. One of the main charcter's friend ended up getting hit by a rocket and Hosseini tells use her body was blown up and her flesh was trown across the street and her mom was screaming and trying to pick up her daughter's flesh.
Deletethe author for the kite runner also gets into detail on violent sences. he talkes about rape, people getting stones thrown at them, and other brutal betings. but it would be intresting to see how a long way gone writes about this subject matter.
DeleteYour book reminds me of "Night". The amount of detail and gory scenes make you feel unsettling but are very important to show what really happened.
DeleteI agree, Ishmael definitely does not leave out any detail when talking about what he has seen and has done. He vividly tells the terrible things that happened to people like being beheaded and even burying people alive. The book if gruesome and while it is unsettling at times it does make it much more interesting and pulls the reader in.
Deletei am reading kite runner and the first scene that comes to mind has to be Hussan getting raped in the alley. this was the key turning point for amir and Hussans relationship so i believe the author put major thinking on how he wanted to describe this scene. i think he added weight and susspension to this scene by having a big lead up. The author had Amir running through the streets looking for Hussan he also dropped little notes in the pages before like saying this is the last winter Hussan smiled. then when Amir finally finds Hussan the way the author describes the dark blood dripping into the white snow really sticks with you. another image that stuck with me was when Amir was describing all the people around him after he was beaten up. i thought the description was good because he didnt know most there names so he had to describe them. he said good descripted things like "he is dark and lanky, he wears a hat called pakol tilted like a movie star."
ReplyDeleteI am also reading the kite runner and i thought that Hassan getting raped it the ally really sticks out in the book and i bet the little clues will all add up in the end.
Deletesounds like kite runner is good at keeping you intrigued and always wondering what will happen next
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ReplyDeletein my book night the main charchter was dripping blood for a while after a failed surgery in the concentration camp
ReplyDeleteI feel this book is sort of similar to mine because, there are always people getting hurt and describes vividly how they all die and i feel its every man for themselves out there. I feel the goory scenes are very important in books like these because it builds suspense and will want you to continue reading more. I hope you keep enjoying your book Mr. Wessels
DeleteIn the book "Night" the first scene I thiink of is the SS officers throwing the babies in the fire. It really left me so dumbfounded on all of these things that happened during this time of life that I did not know about. This is so vivid to me because I can just imagine them throwing alive and innocent children into a pile of ashes and flames because they are not eligable to work. It is so memorable but leaves me with a bad feeling. The next scene I think of is all of the jews being put in a sanitized shower. They were all packed in a room like sardines naked and got sanitizer dumped on them and it stunk and burned there skin. This is very vivid to me because I could almost feel as how it would hurt and burn my skin just by the author explaining it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the part where the babies are being thrown into the fires is a vivid part of the book that also had some great detail. I too can also imagine the babies being thrown into the fires which is really sad to me because it will never make sense to me on why or how they do it.
DeleteThis book seems very visual and traumatic. A baby being thrown in the fire would leave me sickened and its almost unimaginable that this is what this boy went through and seen. I'm reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and many of the scenes when the women were getting beaten I could also almost feel their pain. The author's descriptions of these scenes put's you right in these people's shoes.
DeleteIn my book Night, Elie Wiesel paints a good image of what is happening at certain moments. One time is, when Elie has pus in his foot in the winter and had surgery and all the pain he endured afterwards. Elie described everything very well and added details about the surgery and how he was awake during the whole procedure. Elie did it by talking about all the pain he was in and even continued to go into great detail about how after the surgery he did not let it heal and went with the rest to leave the camp. Not only that, but he was in a lot of pain and was bleeding a lot because of the sutures breaking. Elie made me picture how tough they have to be and how painful everything is especially when he talks about the pus and the blood from the sutures breaking. Another time Elie goes into great detail is when they are leaving the camp in Buna and have to go on the long march/run. Elie describes the horrible run they had and that they had traveled 20 kilometers from they left and then for the rest of the distance they got to march and they could no longer feel their legs anymore. He described how their legs practically moved mechanically. Elie describes everything from this evacuation into great detail and makes the reader imagine how tough and challenging all of it was on not only them physically but also mentally. Elie made me envision the Jews running looking practically dead inside and in lots of pain and barely hanging on in life.
ReplyDeleteThis description sounds very vivid and kind of saddening because it sounds so awful that these people had to endure this.
DeleteIn my book "A Long Way Gone", it also goes into great detail about the pain the child soldiers endured just like how Elie recalls the pain he witnessed and experienced. It also similarly explains how they ran to escape soldiers and were so exhausted but had no choice or else they would be killed.
DeleteI am reading the book "I am Malala" she dose a very good job using descriptive writing she doesn't leave out important part of the book making it super easy to paint pictures in your head. one place in the book is when her fathers school is flooded she uses key word to describe what it looked like she said there was muck every where in the school destroying everything. another easy place to use is when her and one other girl was shot on the bus by the Taliban she was shot in the head but somehow he survived she tells the read how she woke up very confused where she was and the pain she was feeling at this time. She dose a good job expanding your imagination during the whole Novel.
ReplyDeleteI agree she makes it very easy and simple for the picture to be painted because she is so descriptive. It made the book a good a memorable read.
DeleteThis reminds me of Kite Runner with the Taliban shooting people. In my book it talks about how they forced Hassan to the street and to get on his knees. They then proceeded to shoot him in they head because he is a Hazara taking care of his old masters house. I don't know how people could do that to someone else with just going off of their gut on who or what they are.
DeleteI agree, the vocabulary she uses to describe certain events in her life make it easier for the reader to imagine themselves in that situation, making the book more memorable in the process.
DeleteI think that since the details are so in depth it makes you want to read more; some books are very much the same throughout the story but in this book, it is different every chapter so even if it gets somewhat confusing at some point it never gets boring.
DeleteIn my book Night Elie is the main charachter his father gets very sick in a concentration camp his father was still breathing but he was not in his right of mind he was supposed to be silent but kept calling for his son an ss officer beat him in the head with a club the author decribes a sick bloody broken man that was beat. Another way he uses imagery is when Elie is finally freed from the camp he looks in the mirrior and explans how he sees this broken down skinny pale pile of bones and flesh in front of him.
ReplyDeletethe auther really decribes the secnes well in your book.
DeleteI am reading the book I Am Malala. When Malala returns to Pakistan after the attack of the Taliban, she goes to visit her home and her school. Malala's school is completely destroyed and vandalized. I remember this scene very well because not only was Malala very descriptive, but I could also feel her frustration and sadness through the words on the page. Malala talked about how they only trashed the school but also left goat carcasses within the building. Another moment in the book that I remember very vividly is in the prologue in the book when Malala talks about when she was shot on the bus. She almost tells the scene in slow motion, down to how the bullets broke through her skin.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the fact that she chose to describe her emotions after she found her school destroyed and how everything seemed to be in slow motion to her when she was shot, adds more weight to the events of the story more than if she would simply just state what happened without the details of how she felt.
DeleteI am reading Kite Runner and the main part that sticks out to me with a lot of details is when Hassan was in the alley. It talks about Hassan running away from Assef and his friends, but then getting cornered in the alley. Amir had been running the streets of the town looking for Hassan and he did find him. Amir had watched as Assef had raped Hassan. There was blood in the snow, as well as that being the last day that Amir had ever seen Hassan smile. Amir didn't know what to do, so he left and then came back later when Assef was gone. It talks about the guilt that Amir holds with him, as he should.
ReplyDeleteHassan running in the alley goes with my book when Ishmael is always on the run when at war in my book and how survival was the only way out in this book. There is definitely alot of blood in my book as well and really brought out the whole story in color in my opinion. Hope you keep enjoying your book Mr. Hayes
Deletethe auther really described lot sof secnes in this book and made it feel like it was actually happening in front of me.
DeleteIn the book I Am Malala, Malala describes the evolution of her home land of Swat, Pakistan. One is when she's younger, the rising sun, the large mountains reaching all the way to the sky, and the people walking and talking around the streets of the town passing by the shops and markets. Another one is loud explosions, rubbles of destruction, the dead riddling the streets, the shouting, the gunfire, and women and children crying/screaming in fear. The final piece of imagery is buildings destroyed, loud shouting, gunfire, and many civilians in silent fear of The Taliban, the land's lively nature gone because of them. Malala is able to accomplish these descriptions of her home during the story through her using descriptive words and personal anecdotes, such as her mother being unable to sleep due to the tremors after the 2005 earthquake. These images are so vivid because of Malala's writing being so personal and so descriptive, it forces the reader to put themselves in her shoes. Such as her describing the sounds of her home land before and after the conflict, the nostalgic memories of welcoming faces and friendly chatter contrasted with the nightmarish memories of the sound of explosions and gunshots. Malala makes sure to write her older memories with humor and innocent childhood anecdotes and her more recent memories with descriptions of death and sadness.
ReplyDeleteIn the book I am Malala when she explains the earthquake that took place when she was in primary school, she explained how all the kids had to run outside and they got told what to do. Another one was when she explained how this one-time swat seemed to be under military control and there were countless explosives, these two stuck out to me because my whole life I never had to deal with these things and I could not imagine what she was thinking, and she had to deal with this her whole life. The author explained these so well that I could picture it by saying, "it made me think of old war movies or the video games my brother Khushal loves to play.'' or when she explains how ''swat lies on a geological fault line'' these two examples show how detailed this book is and that's why I find little things like this throughout the book really interesting and the details never miss.
ReplyDeleteIn my book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I also see lots of different explosions and war violence. The author's are very good at giving details that leave me stunned. I also can't imagine living a life like this because these women aren't really living, just surviving.
DeleteIn Night the two biggest pieces of imagery in my opinion are the boy who hung and the corpse in the mirror. The boy who hung was too light to have his neck broken on the rope. the boy effected Elie to the point of even making his food taste of corpses. The corpse in the mirror is Elie but after the holocaust this imagery shows how much of a stranger Elie is to himself by the end of the book, it even describes how the corpses eye's studied him as he's seeing himself for the first time in years going to further how the corpse is a stranger.
ReplyDeleteMy book Kite Runner has something similar with the mirror, after Amir's fight, he went to a hospital, and they gave him a mirror and he saw a beaten up face.
DeleteIn the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I imagine lots of traumatic war scenes. Laila and Mariam describe seeing innocent people being shot and the fear that their home could be blown up. They showed me how physcotic people can be when they had public excecutions. There were boys being tortured in the streets and women being raped then killed. I also imagine their home and the feeling of lonely there. They describe the bare walls and lack of comfort. I think of the house at more of a shack with no windows, a small kitchen, and creepy bedrooms. The women talk about all the abuse at this house which also makes it seems like a colder and dreadful place to live. The last thing I can visualize are the hospitals in Afghanistan. They're overcrowded, dirty, understaffed, and lack supplies. When Laila has to give birth, they weren't able to give her any sort or medication and she was in a room full of other women. They had stained gloves hanging above the sinks and dead babies on the shelves.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, many details are very vivid, making it so memorable. One of the top things I remember is when Miriam's mom hung herself. This was towards the beginning of the story and Khaled Hosseini did a great job setting up the scene and describing it in a way that just left its mark in my brain "The straight back chair, overturned. The rope dropping from a high branch" (Hosseini 36) For me, while reading this I felt this eerie dark vibe and my stomach flipped like something bad was happening. Really made me feel like I was there. Another instance of some strong imagery is when Miriam and Laila are returned to Rasheed's house after trying to run away. Immediately I felt my heart sink this ominous feeling came about and the scene described Rasheed beating his two wives and child in graphic detail like I was witnessing it myself. It was honestly hard to read because he ended up locking them up in separate rooms. And it was just so sickening to read. Made me start questioning what else could go wrong in this story. This author is very good at creating a strong scene for the reader to envision.
ReplyDeletei agree the scene where her mother hung herself was very memorable for me aswell.
DeleteIn the book "A Long Way Gone," by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael creates vivid detail within his times at war. One that stuck out to me would be the vivid description of him becoming the junior lieutenant. For the feat each boy were to slice the next open of the enemy and whoever's person dies first will be deemed junior lieutenant. Ishmael states he walks up and preforms a perfect slice to the throat with blood gushing every where with his adams apple falling out onto the ground. Another vivid seen that caught my eye was during one of his mission he was struck with three bullets in his foot. He describes this as losing some much blood where he'd pass out time to time and vividly describes the doctor fishing the bullet out of his foot with him feeling every second of it. The author accomplished this task of making the scenes so vivid because he puts you into his shoes and makes sure that you understand what he felt and how everything went on for him at war.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very gruesome, that seems to be a connection between all of the novels. In my book the two characters Amir and Sohrab are beaten by the Taliban before escaping Afghanistan.
DeleteIn "A Long Way Gone", Ishmael really doesn't leave out any detail when talking about the horrible things he has witnessed and even done. He explains that there was an old man sitting on the verandah on his house that they thought was alive, and was confused why he was still there. As they got closer, they realized there was a hole in his forehead. He was too old to run when the rebels came and he was shot by a rebel. He also explains how in the army when they had captured 5 rebels the lieutenant had them slit their throats to see who could kill the rebel the fastest. He explains how the lieutenant gave the order and him and four other buys stuck their bayonets into a rebels neck. Ishmael says he drove in the knife and turned it before pulling it and and his rebel dropped to the ground lifeless the fastest. The other rebels dropped and squirmed on the ground while his was motionless. He had won the competition and was promoted to Jr. lieutenant.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds like it does go into some deep and gruesome detail. My book Night does not always have great details on some parts but there are some parts in my book also that go into great detail and not leave a lot of detail out. Also the part in your book where they slit their throats is very gross and disturbing and kind of leave a weird feeling after reading that.
DeleteAfter reading that specific part about where they squirmed on the ground and his didn't, really showed the brutality that the drugs and substances within them did to how they acted. It builds on the human emotion of violence and just how raw it can be at times of war.
DeleteIn Kite Runner, there are many "gory" scenes that stick out, the public stoning of sinners, Hassan's rape, Amir and Assef's fight, but I think the most vivid is Amir and Assef's fight. Amir describes every snap of bones and crack of knuckles on his body, and pictures Assef as a bloodthirsty animal, who forced Sohrab to watch Amir get beaten up. What makes it the worst is that at the end of the fight, Sohrab flings a ball at Assef, and it hits Assef's left eye, and Amir describes the fluid coming between his fingers, which I actually recoiled at.
ReplyDeletei am also reading the kite runner and i agree with you about that there are many gory scenes like you said with the Hassan rape or the truck driver killing himself right infront of everybody.
DeleteThe blood rush of violence like that is portrayed very well in A Long Way Gone too, while completely unrelated, the gunfight that happens between Ishmael and the resistance against the Rebels when he finally snaps and starts shooting, seems like it meshes well with that fight scene.
DeleteI am reading kite runner and in one of the first scene that comes to mind has to be Hussan getting raped in the alley. this was a turning point for amir and Hussans relationship and I believe the author thought a lot on how he wanted to describe this scene. I think he added weight and suspension to this scene by having a big lead up. The author had Amir running through the streets looking for Hussan and dropped little notes in the pages before like saying this is the last winter Hussan smiled. another image that stuck with me was when Amir was by the kids after he was beaten up. he said good descripted things like "he is dark and lanky, he wears a hat called pakol tilted like a movie star."
ReplyDeletesounds like a very interesting read. Malala in my novel was shot but never rapped. i think it sounds like your author did a good job describing events in your book based off your paragraph
DeleteI'm pretty sure you book and mine would have a lot in common being from the same author.
DeleteIn the book i am Malala. the book is very good at making you picture things in your head. One time being when malala and her father were at school and malala described the flood as thick orange plaster half way up the walls. i could just picture in my head of a flooded school with mud caked everywhere. Also another time Malala did a good job creating imagery was during the part after she got shot and woke up in the hospital confused on where she was. she did a good job explaining just how much pain she was in during the event after being shot. she described it as numbness on half of her face and couldn't move her eye at all. i think malala did a good job creating imagery in all different types of ways in her novel.
ReplyDeleteMy book The Kite Runner also uses mud as a way to use sensory details to describe the walls of the city of Kabul. The author also uses the color orange as a sensory detail, in my book it used to describe the sky rather then a flood. It is interesting to see the connections in sensory details from a similar setting.
DeleteI also think this book does a very good job at using words to explain things that happen so we can envision it.
DeleteMy book makes some very real connections to pain as well.
DeleteThis book seems very descriptive and does a good job of luring you into the story
DeleteThe first example of imagery that really stood out to me in my book "The Kite Runner" was "The sky above Kabul was a canvas of swirling, cerulean blue. A thousand kites, stitched from tissue paper and bamboo, danced in the wind, their tails like the tails of a thousand startled magpies." This was from chapter 6 to describe a kite fight the characters were participating in. The author manages to portray a beautiful sky full of kites. This is done by linking the factors literally at play with other things we can visualize like bamboo and tails of magpies.
ReplyDeleteThe second example of imagery that really stood out to me and stayed in my head was "The sun dipped below the Hindu Kush, painting the sky with streaks of orange and purple. The call to prayer echoed from a hundred minarets, a mournful wail that hung in the air like the scent of woodsmoke." This was from chapter 4 to describe the sky and atmosphere of the situation by stimulating multiple senses of the reading. First sight by telling of streaks of orange and purple. Secondly he engages our sense of hearing by describing the call to prayer from the minarets as a mournful wail. Lastly the author simulates our sense of smell by describing the air as having a a scent of woodsmoke. By engaging multiple of our senses the author makes us feel that we are there rather then just telling us he stood there looking at the sky.
Seeme like a lot of action happens in those book
DeleteI am reading the book the kite runner and I feel that there are a lot of bloody scenes and hard to read scenes some of those scenes are Hassan getting raped or Amir experiencing the truck driver son to die then the truck driver shooting himself. And the author paints a good picture on what Amir goes through.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book A Long Way Gone this book is making me picture how bad the other countries are being very violent all the time. A time in the book is when the rebels attack the village with high powered rifles and beat them while being held hostage. The whole village has no idea what to do and scared to death. Also, another time in the book is when the bad guys burned to down the village while the Taliban captured Pepple that were living there.
ReplyDeletethe things that happen in this book are very terrible and very sad. it makes you think how lucky you are tom m live in america
DeleteThe book i am reading is A Thousand Splendid suns. This book has a lot of memorable moments in it, one that comes to mind is when Mariam's mom kills herself. I imagined Mariam in the back of her fathers drivers car being so sad that her father ditched her on her birthday and then she gets home and is walking up the hill and sees her mom hanging from a tree. That has to be so traumatic for such a younger girl. She really blamed herself because her mom was so sad about her leaving to go see her dad.
ReplyDeletethis book sounds so sad i cannot imagine being Mariam and having to see that and deal with that.
DeleteI agree she probably has alot of regret not listening to what her mother told her even if her nana said it in a negative way all the time
DeleteThe first image that comes to mind in A Long Way Gone is in Ishmael's dream where he is walking among corpses with an ak47, and he lifts the cloth or shawl that is around the face of a specific body, only to see the deceased face of himself staring back at him. The other one is probably when Ishmael had his family almost in his grasp only for the rebels to show up before he could and burnt the entire village to the ground, and shooting the escapees. Every corpse was burnt beyond recognition so he couldn't even get the clearance of seeing his family's faces. All he could do was watch as the house/hut they stayed in burned in soft crackles. The images are so vivid to me because I have a good imagination, and scenes like that stick in my brain and become envisioned almost to the exact detail.
ReplyDeleteMy book has Amir also losing his family but not as bad. Amir at least gets time with his father before losing him.
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ReplyDeletein the book I am Malala, and this book has a lot of things that happen in it but the ones that suck out in my head was when Malala explains every single thing that happens in the bus right before she gets shot so it paints a picture in our head. probably also when they get kicked out of Taliban because it talks about just how sad and lost her whole family is walking through the valley by all the soldiers.
ReplyDeleteI agree even just remembering reading the book from years ago i can still visualize the scene when she gets shot and the open truck bed with very little protection.
DeleteIn my book A Thousand Splendid Suns, one important piece of imagery is when Miriam Goes to live with Rasheed in a different land that was described by the author to be vast and barren. Khaled Hosseini uses detailed descriptions to paint a perfect picture of what the Middle East would look and sound like to someone who doesn't have much experience with Afghanistan. Khaled described the towns as being in large valleys separated by large hills and plains very desert-like. With summers being hot and dry and the winters very little but some snow. It's a third-world country so I imagine there's very little electronic usage and power sources available. Another piece of imagery that comes to mind is Rasheed's home. Being very middle class where he's from I believe his house is somewhat modern with electricity and heating most of the time, but simple and plain. With enough space for a couple bedrooms a small kitchen and a living area. The rooms being nothing but a bed and some storage, not much personality is allowed based on the person I believe Rasheed to be.
ReplyDeletethe book I'm reading is a long way gone and getting further into the book i feel lucky to live the life i do the people in other country's do not live a good life. example in the book is when the rebels go and attack a village with rifles and beat the people in the village while holding them as prisoners. like just imagine young boys holding AK-47s an shooting at people to save there lives. or an innocent family getting there heads chopped off
ReplyDeleteIn my book night there is many times the author puts an imagine in your head sometimes you feel like your in the book. The first thing that i found supper unsettling is imagining the S.S officers throwing babies into the fire that part made me stop reading. The second most imaginable scene was when Elie talks about his body in the mirror talks about how broken down his body is and just the overall condidtion of his body makes you imagine looking into that mirror
ReplyDeleteIn the book kite runner one of the pictures that stayed in my mind was hassan getting assaulted in the alley. I think the picture stays because its a big issue in the book because this is when Amir felt guilty for not standing up for whats right. Another Picture that stayed with me is when they are in the stadium during halftime and they are throwing rocks at "sinners". I thin that is a big picturee because it is a gruesome scene.
ReplyDeletei read the book night by Elie Wiesel and in the beginning the y were throwing living babies into a fire and it just made me want to stop reading and the other one is at the end of the book when Elie was looing in a mirror and he said that he aged so much he didn't even resinize him self
ReplyDeleteIn my book when I read it almost seems as if I am in the room with them and am experiencing the tragedy first hand. I can paint a picture in my head of their house and their town and how everything is placed when I read.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is night by Elie Wiesel and he uses imagery in several different ways. one way he uses is touch imagery. on page 77 he says "Winter had arrived. The days became short and the nights almost unbearable. From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip." This is describing the harsh winter at the concentration camp.
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