Description
- Consider the descriptive passages below (some are have more sensory details than others). Refer to the pages in the PDF for the full descriptions.
- Connect the descriptions of the setting, characters, action etc with the insights the story offers you as a reader. How are descriptions used to reveal and enhance the meaning you take from the story?
- There may be other passages you want to use, but these offer some interesting moments. In any case, be specific.
Meaningful Description & Imagery (simile and metonymy may be of interest and should be mentioned in relevant)
- “You’ll be able to see the tops of flag poles, too. Thats where the border is (1)
- Most of the roof [of the museum] had been blown away . . . . There were boards over the windows and doors (1)
- My mother straightened the dress across her thighs, leaned against the wheel, and drove all the way to the border in first gear, slowly, as if she were trying to see through a bad storm or driving high on black ice (2)
- He told us to sit in the car and wait, and we did. In about five minutes, another guard came out with the first man. They were talking as they came, both men swaying back and forth like two cowboys headed for a bar or a gunfight.(2)
- The guard rocked back on his heels and rammed his thumbs into his gun belt. Thank you, he said, his fingers patting the butt of the revolver. Have a pleasant trip (5)
- It was almost evening when we left Coutts. I watched the border through the rear window until all you could see were the tops of the flagpoles and the blue water tower, and then they rolled over a hill and disappeared. (5)
