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.
When the Ishmeal describes the villages, I picture them as a small area with a few small houses and creeks. I picture the area he lives in being a swampy land with trees and rivers, with the way he describes them.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I agree with the surrounding areas being swampy and having trees everywhere
DeleteThat is how i pictured the run down streets in my book
DeleteI think that it would be swampy and have trees surrounding the village.
DeleteWhen Malala returns to Pakistan after the attack of the Taliban, she goes to visit her home and her school. Her 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. She talked about how they ot 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. I could feel the fear in Malals voice when she said, "Taliban was calling her by name". This scene is a key part of the book, and I feel that is why she put it in the prologue, the rest of the book is a flash back from there.
ReplyDeleteI think the scene where Malala saw the goat heads also stuck with me, along with the bones and feathers of the chickens that starved to death. Even though they are animals and not humans, they are a great representation of the death that went on in the valley
DeleteWhen Ishmeal talks about the villages he visited I imagine them as like sandy little areas with sandstone huts, no doors to any of the houses or anything and no windows. Just little openings dug out of the walls.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the villages would probably be run down and the houses would be junk
DeleteWas there any other scenes in the book that could paint a big picture, if so would they be towards the beginning of the book, or more towards the end?
DeleteI pictured my streets the same being run down and not very nice houses with no windows.
DeleteI also would think that the houses would not be that nice because the probably don't have a lot of money and they are also in a war zone.
Deletesame thing with my book i am malala it is in a village in a sandy area as well
Deleteim reading to book night i also imagine the book as some sand and dirt everywhere at there camp
DeleteI also agree that the villages would look like this based on Ishmael's description in the story.
DeleteI am also reading that book and I agree. I envision very little grass areas with mostly sand and dirt.
Deletewhen Ishmael describes the villages and what he sees I would picture the village to have a few little houses and water running through the middle of the village. I image the village being in the middle of a forest with trees sounding it.
ReplyDeleteI think that there would be very few house. I also think that they would be run down houses.
DeleteI'm reading Night and the book is very descriptive on how short of the story is. One of the recent pictures that was placed into my head has been the clean roads in the camp that Elie and his dad were in. What got me focused on that image was what the guard said. He said that the streets needed to be clean for the liberating army. The other picture would have to be when the Jews were running in a circle to be chosen for death, or to be made a slave once again. He said that it was very muddy and the people that were writing don't the Jews numbers weren't picky at all.
ReplyDeletemy book i am malala there was guards on the streets too not for jews but for women because women are to stay inside and cover there faces and people who dont follow taliban laws are put to death
DeleteI like this book a lot because it is short and so descriptive. The way Elie takes you through the days he lived through.
DeleteI agree with you and that the book is very descriptive with how short the story is. The clean roads were one of the things I pictured in the book too
Deletei pictured my book similar to because of the small town and all the people that crowd it so it seemed like there would be a lot of broken stuff and garbage all over.
DeleteElie is in a camp, and I imagine it as a prison with barbwire fence around it with little shacks because that is where they would sleep at i also can imagine big buildings because they would go to work each day. later in the book it talks about them leaving camp and moving to a new place. elie said it was very snowy with it blowing in there face he also said people were falling becuase they were out of energy and would be shot, so all the people on the ground would be trampled over in the snow.
ReplyDeletevery descriptive, I would also say that when they are moving it is almost like the beginning of the book and when they had to move out of the ghettos and into train cars to be transferred
DeleteI also imagined the camps to look like this since they were described as very horrible places.
DeleteVery descriptive, nice job!
DeleteI can also see the camp as a horrible place to live and how massive they were
DeleteI'm reading the kite runner and the two images that the author puts in my head are when Khaled describes the kite tournament and I pictured it as a run down part of town with everyone crowded on the streets waiting for the tournament to begin. Also, the scene where Khaled describes Amir's dads bus where I pictured it as a run down bus with little to no tread on the wheels and a couple spots of rust. Khaled accomplished this by doing a good job of describing the scenes.
ReplyDeleteI also see the kite tournament as a crowed Neiborhood.
DeleteWhat is all involved in the kite tournament? Are there a lot of people that come and watch it or is it just down in the suburbs?
Deletei think the small neiborhood crowed is much like the small town of Epworth with some differences of course.
DeleteIshmael tells about his home village Mattru Jong I would imagine them as little brown houses with out much furnishings and no windows or doors. I think that the are located in like a desert area with little trees.
ReplyDeleteThe houses in my book i also see as brown but i think these are bigger houses.
Deletei pictured that when he was talking about the village all of the little houses and i pictured in being in the desert in some country far away.
DeleteI am reading the book Night. When Elie shows up to the camp for the first time the author discribes tall chimneys which are infimary. He discribes the smoke in the air and ash falling all around them. It was very wierd to read about, and was shocking to find out what they did.
ReplyDeletei also i thought that was a weird thing to read about.
Deletei also agree it was very weird and disturbing to know what was in the chimneys
DeleteIn I am Malala it talks about how they live in a valley and are poverty stricken and there is war so the image in my head is a town in the middle of the desert in Pakistan that is destroyed and run down with dirty people running around and since it is war stricken there will be many armed people walking throughout the valley
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to me that you see a town in the middle of a desert, I imagine the opposite because Malala mentioned how the valley looks like Switzerland and I imagine something like that. But I also imagine everything being destroyed and run down
DeleteI kind of agree with the desert aspect because when the boys travel to village to village i did not really think on how long they had to walk, they had to walk for days to find food and water.
DeleteI agree that the village would appear very run down and dirty. After the invitation of the Taliban I also imagine there not being much shelter. There are probably people everywhere, as most of their homes have been destroyed. Malalas was one of the few that wasn't. These people probably don't have much with them either. I imagine many of them were struggling to survive each day. What other parts stuck out to you in the book?
Deletewhile i do agree with some of your observations i dont think malala really said anything that would make you believe that swat was very deserty. so, i ask what factors led you to the conclusion that swat was a deserted area?
DeleteOne thing I pictured is when Amir is in the kite tournament, and I see a small Neiborhood crowed with lots of people watching. Also when Asssef is chasing Hassen and Mair i see them running around town scared.
ReplyDeletei agree because the author never really said anything was big in the town besides the big crowd that always came to the kite tournament.
DeleteI am reading the book night the thing i can picture is when the camp they are in starts to get air raided and Eliezer is outside when it starts and this man starts to crawl to the soup and when he gets there and he stands up and gets shot in the head i can just see this in my head so clear because the jews were not able to eat very much and where always hungry and he was just trying to eat but the Germans shot him.
ReplyDeleteI also saw this very clearly, since they don't get much food and people are very desperite to get just a little bit more food.
DeleteMalala compares her home town being just like Switzerland in Pakistan and that really helped me visualize what Swat looked like. She said that there were waterfalls and because of how nice their surroundings are, the school would take them on fieldstrips. Also during the bombing a lot of things are destroyed and there are images like the dead chickens and goats and beheaded people that I just can't get out of my head, I imagine a lot of buildings to be in shambles because of the bombs. I think it especially looks like that after Malala comes back to Swat.
ReplyDeleteBombing was another thing that happened but I don't think it was bad as Malala's story and what she has gone though.
DeleteThe part about Malala returning to Swat definitely stuck out to me too. I also can't get the gut wrenching images out of my head. I couldn't imagine this happen in our town or our school. I'm surprised her home wasn't destroyed like many others. I imagine this town that once had luscious green valleys and mountain sides, being absolutely demolished. Why do you think it was goats and chickens though?
Deletei think that Malala is great at describing certain things that bring out lots of emotions. were there any other things about malala's return to swat that stood out to you?
DeleteReading Night listen to some of the events he went though you almost want to stop. But i can image a lot of people stuck in a prison area. All their hair is cut off from head to town and a lot of them look sick or are not doing good. I can also image big building around, smoke coming out of the chimney. Elie was very describing in the book you feel as almost you are there, and you just can't believe this was happening.
ReplyDeleteI can also imagine big buildings with smoke coming out of the chimneys
DeleteIn the book Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam comes back to her mothers house and discovers her mother who is hanging from a tree. her mom committed suicide after Mariam went to visit her dad. another part of the book that gave me an image was Mariam getting on a bus with her new husband that she was forced to marry while her father was standing by the bus with his hands on the bus window. as the bus started to move away so did her father, meanwhile Mariam didn't even hesitate to look back at her father.
ReplyDeleteI also imagined that in my mind, and it was very hard for me because Mariam was not prepared to see her mother dead, and to be married to an abusive man and her father let it happen, that was hard for me to process that a father would force his daughter to marry someone and let them abuse them.
DeleteThis is just like Kite Runner and how well they are able to describe a traumatic event and make it seem so real and visible.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, I can see the destruction that Kabul and Mujahideen made after their war between each other. I can also see Mariam being abused by Rasheed.
ReplyDeleteI could invision the part where Rasheed made Mariam eat pebbles very well and it was hard to read
DeleteI can clearly see Rasheed forcing Mariam to eat rocks because his rice was too hard
DeleteIs there a certain part during the war that stuck out more than the others? I also agree with Lily as to the part where Rasheed forced Mariam to eat the rocks and then her mouth was bleeding. It was hard to imagine that someone would do that to another human being, but I know that it does happen.
DeleteMariam being abused be Rasheed was one of the most vivid parts of the book, I think.
DeleteI also agree with being able to see Rasheed abusing Mariam, the author does a good job of describing the scenes.
DeleteI have envisioned people being shot in a war and all of the blood based on the author's words, Ishmael uses very good description to really paint that picture in your head of what was really going on. I have also pictured the villages as older and kind of beat up towns based on the description that is given. Without Ishmael's vivid description, I think this story would be very difficult to picture in your mind and you would have to use your imagination to envision the whole story.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Ishmael uses really good descriptions, and I can imagine a lot of the things he talks about in his story such as all of the dead bodies he sees and how well he can explain how they look.
DeleteI agree, Ishmael really goes into detail about what is going on around him and it gives me a big picture of the scenes
DeleteI agree, he does such a good job with all of the small details and special things that really paint a clear picture for the reader.
DeleteI envision the villages in the same way and i agree the descriptions ishmael gives helps out a ton to see it in your head
Deletei see it the same way with very good descriptions of the details and makes it very easy to picture it.
DeleteAlong way gone a boy solider has a bombardment of upsetting imagery with the kids being blown up, having contests on who can kill someone the fastest it. defiantly does not skip on the atrocities of war and it makes it a hard book to read because of all the gore is in it and cant help but sit with you.
ReplyDeleteMy book takes place near Afghanistan during war time so I can relate with the gory scenes. Gender roles also plays a huge role which makes it even harder.
DeleteIn A Thousand Splendid Suns their is a lot of war and bombs being dropped. I had to read a few vivid and gory scenes when Laila's friend got blown to pieces, as well as her parents.
DeleteThere is a lot of gore prior to when he becomes a soldier also. I think he explains it all to well because it makes it hard to read.
DeleteMy book also takes place during wartime, and there are many instances where the allies are close enough to concentration camps that the jews can hear them.
Deletein A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini does a really good job describing the war scene and how the town looks during the war. The author also does a great job of describing how the characters look.
ReplyDeleteThe author does make a really good visual of the town and how destroyed it looks. You could close your eyes and picture it very clearly. All of the houses, vehicles and the roads are blown apart from the bombs. Did you ever pictured what our towns would look like if they were like that?
DeleteI also mentioned how the author does a great job of describing the characters physical features. Which character do you think he went the most in depth about?
DeleteIn Kite Runner, they explain the town too after the bombing and how everything was destroyed. They described it as craters along the roads from the bombs and how many touched down in a row.
DeleteHunter Fosdal in kite runner as well when they explain the village and all the cut down trees and their reason to the village as enemy snipers and the people needed firewood.
Deletewhen Malala talks about swat i imagine a surprisingly lush and green environment that is unexpected for the country they live in. there building are mostly the same besides the few that have been destroyed by bombings. i imagine very large crowds of people weaving between these buildings and their alleyways. she accomplishes this by telling from her personal experience but even then, the reader might interpret things differently.
ReplyDeletehow torn apart do you imagine the towns
DeleteIshmael Beah wrote A Long Way Gone and as he wrote about his journey, it got easier to imagine. One part that I could imagine a lot was when Ishmael and his friends had to walk across the burning sand which led their feet to burn and blister. Ishmael mentioned that he picked the sand apart from his skin which was really gross, and I could see what he was talking about. Ishmael managed to do this by explaining in depth what was happening. Another thing I can always imagine is when Ishmael talks about the bodies lying in a line, dead. He talks about them individually and what they look like, so it puts a clear image in my head.
ReplyDeleteI can connect and imagine the part where Ishmael and his friends had to walk across burning sand. That would be terrible.
DeleteI can connect to the part in imagining when he was walking past all the dead bodies. It would be extremely hard to see people that you grew up with laying there unrecognizable.
DeleteOne of the main images that I can picture is when Lalia goes to see where Mariam lived growing up. The way that Khaled Hosseini describes the walkway to the house, (tall grasses brushing against her ankles) and then once she reaches the house, how old and broken down it is and comparing it to what Lalia had always imagined it. Another image that stood out to me was when Lalia went to the orphanage. Lalia, Tariq and Zaman (teacher at the orphanage) have been repairing the orphanage. The description of the orphanage, how the walls and the floor tiles are placed and how the children are sitting in their spot by each other watching Lalia think of Mariam. "Mariam is in Lalia's own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand splendid suns" (pg 414). The reason that these 2 images stick out to me the most is the level of detail for the first image (Mariam's old childhood home) and then the level of thought that Khaled put into Lalia's mind when thinking of Mariam.
ReplyDeletein a thousand splendid suns i can see the hotel that tariq and laila are working in at the end of the book
ReplyDeleteWhat stuck out to you the most about the hotel?
DeleteIn A Thousand Splendid Suns, I can vividly imagine Mariam's old little farm house from her childhood. The author uses many adjectives to describe and give the scenery life. I can picture the old and worn down wooden shack for a home they had as well as the small wire chicken coop. The author also described the characters facial features very well and that helped me get a better image of what they looked like. He describes Laila as beautiful, blonde, with green eyes. Rasheed also compared her to a newer and nicer car model.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Kite Runner and one thing I was the author did more of is, describing the physical appearance of the characters. In my mind I have an idea of what the characters look like, but without the authors imagery, my idea may be much different than another person in my group.
Deletei also thought the author did a very good and detailed job on describing the characters to paint the perfect picture in my head.
DeleteI agree with the author using descriptive words to help get a better image of what the characters and their surroundings look like.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone, the author describes the worn down and war- torn villages. I could imagine all of the violence that went on and see all of the dead bodies. He went in even more detail about each of the bodies, which gives a clearer vision in my head. Another thing I could see was the throat slitting contest.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I would not like this book because of the gory content, but I can see how details about these events would provide a clear image in the readers mind.
Deletefor me it was the people that stuck out to me.
DeleteOne example of imagery comes in the first chapter. Amir decides to go for a walk in the park near a lake. While he is there he tells us, ''The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze.'' This sentence uses language that appeals to our sense of sight. The word ''sparkled'' is especially effective and helps us imagine the water reflecting the sunlight. Amir could have said, ''The water was nice and the wind pushed some boats.'' However, the sentence with the imagery gives us a much better idea of how to park looked.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this is a good example of imagery, because Amir helps us get a clear vision on how the reflection of the sun, develops a sparkling look on the water.
DeleteOne of the images i saw very clearly was when Ishmael first saw bloodshed and death. The author described all of the people and surrounding very well, even though it was hard to take in. Another one would be how he describes the burned villages. The author does such a good job explaining the smoke rising and piles of debris from what used to be a house.
ReplyDeleteI agree this part of the book was explained very well and easy to see all the details.
DeleteI am reading a long way gone and there have been many parts of the book that have caught my atttention and i was able to picture it but one that really stuck out is when Ishmael and the boys met with a farmer who helped them get to a village where their parents were at but once they got there the village had been burned and all the parents had been killed, the boys got really sad and Ishmael got so upset he hit the farmer. another scene that really stuck with me is when the boys got captrued after staying with a fisherman and had to strip naked in the middle of the yard. then the only reason the got out of it was because Ishmael danced to his music. these scenes all stuck with me because of the high tensions and the emotions that were going through the boys.
ReplyDeleteI am ready Kite Runner, three times I can imagine the book is about the rape, kite running, and Assef revealing his identity. The rape had very many details about what was happening and the emotions that Amir felt during this incident. The kite running is very detailed they basically just describe it as a huge neighborhood festival where they celebrate and gather together. Lastly, Assef revealing his identity from under the glasses because they helped me picture how Amir was affected by the past of Assef and how that anger is being built up more and more.
ReplyDeleteWhen i think of the book kite runner the image that is painted in my head is one during the kite flying i picture the streets being full of people watching all the kites flying through the sky just waiting to see witch one will be the last to fly. i also think of the rape that has happened in the book. although that part was very sad there was still good parts though the day.
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DeleteWhen I think of the book Night I picture the barbed wire around all the camps and all the Jews either working or talking with other Jews. I also picture the Jews running when they had to switch camps and the SS telling them to run faster.
ReplyDeletei feel like the camp was described alot and i picture the camp like that too. when they were running that was always very decrypted and i feel that elie did good with that.
DeleteMy book is a lot like yours when I picture it, I see kids running to a village.
DeleteIn the book Night, elie used his words in a way to where you cant help but have a vivid image imprinted in your mind, such as the selections, where many frail men fought for their life with just simple little tasks like running. Another vivid image is when they are brought to camps, they are a bunch of bald, naked men in prison, which was very unsettling.
ReplyDeletei also thought that the selections were very descriptive and i don't know how i would have reacted if i was there. i also felt uncomfortable whe they talked about them all being naked.
Deleteone picture i have captured in my eyes is towards the beginning of the book when they were being split off into groups of guys and girls, elie described how she saw babies and young kids getting thrown into a fire by nazi. he described very vividly how he saw them burning alive which i find hard to even picture. another thing he described in detail was the young kid that got hung. it was described in great detail and i don't know how i would have reacted to seeing that.
ReplyDeleteIn a Thousand Splendid Suns one of the main parts I was able to imagine well was when mariam came back to see her mother had hung herself while see was gone. You could see from reading how sad mariam was and how horrible it must have been. Another would be when their town was under war, I just imagine homes and business's run down and falling apart.
ReplyDeleteit seems that the dark and sad scenes are the ones that stay in our minds the most.
Deletethe first scene was in the beginning of the book, in which he described the look of refugees and how they looked and acted, such like there Gaughan faces and shifty stances. the second one was when he was describing the act of making the war prisoners dig their own grave and then burying them alive, the worst part of that was that they were laughing about it as they did it.
ReplyDeleteAs Ishmael describes all throughout the book how he lives. To me I imagined it as a place of war because of all the dead bodies and a place that is lonely because practically every kid is separated from their families.
ReplyDeletein my book kite runner i imagine the kite tournament as people just seeing who's kite can fly the highest and people growded in the neighborhood all over the place. also i pictured the amir being a kind respectful boy that qould do nothing wrong.
ReplyDelete(Hunter Fosdal) i imagine this part of the book too and how Amir and Hassan are doing.
DeleteHunter Fosdal A part of my book kite runner i visioned when Hassan and his wife were killed and Rahim explaining it to him. Rahim tells Amir about Hassans life after Amir left and when he came back to Baba's house and when he was taken outside and put on his knees in the street and shot and when his wife screamed and ran to Hassan's body, and they shot her too.
ReplyDeletewhen ishmeal described the village i could picture it very vivitly in my head and when hes talking about all of the fighting and stealing that goes on around him. He talks about the dead bodys laying on the ground around the village.
ReplyDeleteIn A Thousand Splendid Suns a couple scenes that stood out to me was when Mariam's mother hung herself. Mariam went to go to her fathers house and she waited there over night, and when she came home the next day she saw her mother had hung herself. The way he described the scene mad it to where I could image it in my head. Another scene I can picture is when their town was in the middle of the war and bombs were going off blowing up houses and businesses.
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