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.
the book i am reading is The Kite Runner and one of the images that has been really detailed in the book is when Hassan was in the alley with Amirs friends and they assaulted him, the author really made me imagen what they were doing and how they treated him, another seen in the book that was really detailed and made me feel like i was there was when Amir went to go get Sohrab and then Assef beat Amir i can just imagen how that looked and how he was getting hit again and again, also they way Amir was acted was put into detail well the author described Amir and how he was laughing as he was getting hit, but also was aching with pain.
ReplyDeleteYour author seems to describe his scenes in the book and makes you imagine it.
Deletejust a great way to paint a picture in my head
DeleteOlivia, the author is really good at describing the most intense scene in his book and makes you really imagen it and making it feel like you are at the same place as the scene and the event that is taking place.
DeleteOlivia, these images the authors give you seem very real, it is pretty cool how authors can make readers imagination go places
DeleteI am reading a different book but with the same author and it sounds like he is very descriptive in both books when the characters are becoming injured.
DeleteOlivia, i love how the authors are very descriptive and how you can imagine the characters and picture what is going on
DeleteIn the book "Night" Elie Wiesel catches my attention with the imagery he uses. The first one that caught my attention was when they were in the train car going to a camp and there was a lady getting beat because she would not be quiet. The way Elie Wiesel described the lady described how miserable the lady was and the officers would not give in, she was in the corner crying and her kid was also crying. Another scene in the book that caught my attention was when Elie Wiesel talked about the burning bodies. I could imagine how that looked and smelt. There was a big chimney of smoke that smelt like burning flesh.
ReplyDeleteThe way the author shows how bad it is to be there makes you feel some much worse for the Main character.
Deletethat sounds disgusting and I can't imagine smelling burning bodies but it sounds very descriptive and paints a picture in my head really well
DeleteWow Tyler, I am reading this book too and I am understanding how I could see the pain and smell the burning flesh. Great imagery.
Deleteseems like the author creates good pictures for you in your head
Deletethis is very descriptive you almost feel like your there.
DeleteTyler i cant belive it is this descriptive but i think thats great and you can picture everything that is going on
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah uses vivid imagery to help readers picture the horror of war. One image that stood out to me was a village burned to the ground, with ashes in the air and the smell of blood and smoke. I could clearly imagine the destruction because Beah used strong details that appealed to the senses. Another image was Ishmael walking through a dark forest, scared of being caught by rebels. The way he described the shadows, rustling sounds, and fear made me feel like I was right there with him. These scenes are so vivid because Beah writes honestly and uses powerful, descriptive words.
ReplyDeleteSeems like your author uses imagery very well.
DeleteThe details are disturbing and makes it harder to read the book. This makes the book feel some much more real.
Deletethat sound horrible but he used a great imagery to describe the things that happened
Deleteseems like the imagery is good
Deletethis is very well described and very descriptive.
Deletei agree, the way ishmael describes these scenes makes it very easy to see exactly what was going on.
DeleteIn I am Malala one of the images is people would go to schools with bombs and blow what ever school that most likely had something to do with girl. I sill don't know if there was kid/adults in those schools. It's crazy to me that they would go to schools that my or may not had kids in them and blow it up and their reasoning was in their eyes girls should only be in the house not outside it.
ReplyDeleteThen there was also this town square they nicknamed body square because the Taliban would kill a bunch of people in the middle of the night and drag them to that one square for people to find in the morning. No one would touch them tell 11 so they wouldn't be part of the group in the morning. The Body Square shocked me because they are so scared of a group of religious group that they over murder or side with there reasoning.
How Hope, blowing up schools is crazy, just because they think women should be inside and not being able to do anything. I do not know how I would be able to live like that.
DeleteThe "body square" also stuck out to me. I could not imagine seeing that everyday.
DeleteHope i also thought that body square was crazy and shocked me to.
DeleteThe body square is crazy and how would you feel about that seeing this on your way out the house?
DeleteI know for a fact I'd avoid that spot like my life depended on it.
DeleteAs I am reading I am Malala. The Bloody Square does stand out to me as well. The way they have the dead bodies on display for people to see, but no one can do anything about it till a certain time. It sucks that people like the Taliban are in our world. I really hope you continue to enjoy the book and I hope you enjoy the ending.
DeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Sons and one of the images that was really detailed in the book was when Laila and Mariam were being beaten by their husband Rasheed after they attempted to run away. The author made me imagen what Rasheed was doing to his wives and how he treated Mariam and Laila. Another scene in the book that was really detailed that captured in my mind was when the police car showed up to take Laila, Mariam and Aziza back to Rasheed and then standing in the door way until Rasheed told Laila to go upstairs and then she didn't and that is when Rasheed stated to beat Laila. During that scene I could only imagine how it looked when Rasheed was dragging Laila upstairs and throwing Aziza on the bad and Mariam watching the whole thing until Rasheed came back downstairs and started beating her. The way the author detailed the whole beating scene and how Laila could hear everything until she looked outside the window and saw how badly beaten Mariam was and where Rasheed was taking her.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading kite runner and the two pictures are when hassan got violated and when amir found his dream girl. The details about hassan are terrible and it took a dark twist. I thought he was just gonna get beat up but what happened was way worse. When amir met his girl at the flea market he was very descriptive talking about her unibrow her nose and all I'm thinking to myself is she sound ugly as hell.
ReplyDeleteyeah if the authour used those words to discribe he i would agree.
DeleteThat girl doesn't sound very physically attractive... maybe she has a great personality! I feel like seeing an ugly girl isn't as bad as getting beat up!
DeleteYeah the image of Hassan violation was super important for the story and was a crazy twist for like the beginning of the book. It was crazy having to imagine Amir in that situation too and imagining what action he would take (or not take).
DeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone where Ishmael Beah is fighting for his life from raids to just trying to stay fed. The most descriptive parts are the bloody. The first one is the Throat slitting contest, this describes how bloody killing people is. The second one is when they raid the town his family is in. It goes over dead bodys burnt houses and so much chaos. The final one is not bloody or bad but it is just him and his friends swimming. This part of the book is peaceful compared to the rest of the book and gives a break. This book has both ends of the spectrum from death to peace.
ReplyDeleteI think its interesting how there is all of this killing and raids going on, but the author is still able to stick peaceful moments in the book.
Deletei agree, the way ishmael describes these scenes makes it very easy to imagine and see what he is dealing with at such a young age.
DeleteI could not agree more! The way the Author describes all the events in the story is like no other and its crazy how well he went through all of this and then is able to describe it in such great detail
DeleteI am reading Night and one imagine that I can capture very good in my brain is, when the SS officers where making the jews dig holes for themselves. I could picture the officers standing there and watching them waiting for them to make a mistake just to get shot. I can also see the SS officers throwing up the babies in the air to use at shooting targets. I can see these images so clearly because it is so sad that you can just see and feel how they were feeling. The words that were the worst are "they were forced to walk up one by one and offer their necks" and "infants were tossed in the air and used as targets for machine guns." That is like terrible, one of the worst things I have ever heard.
ReplyDeletei agree the worst is when the kids get hurt. it sucks to see them have to leave their family and stuff.
DeleteIt is the worst thing that could happen to people even when the kids get hurt and it sucks that they do this to living human beings.
DeleteThis sounds awful and especially when kids are getting hurt
Deletethe book i am reading g is night by elie wisle, two seans i can picture would be when the group of people are on the buss getting hauled off and the teacher Mrs. s going psyco and getting worried about what is happening, she predicted what was going to happen to them. the next scean i can picture well is when Elie had to watch his dad get beat up. i can imagine what he was thinking and how sad he was.
ReplyDeleteI can see the images really well it sounds very descripted
DeleteIn the book Malala she paint a vivid imagine of what is happening in the book and feel like you were there. for example when the Swat was guarding the doors and not letting the students into the school. I could imagining a old run down school with trashy people with big guns standing in front front of the wooden doors waiting for the students to come. another example is when they the earthquakes. I could imagine sitting there and feeling everything shake and really not knowing what is going on although many people are going missing due to them being killed by the bombing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would also have to agree that the school imagined is very run down and them standing out side the door holding guns.
DeleteI could really imagine what is going on. It must have been really scary for her during the earthquake.
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala. This book uses imagery because it allows for the reader to feel as though they are living through them. A prime example of this is the bombing, the citizens of the country thought that they were earthquakes and went deep into detail on what it felt like. Another prime example of this is when Malala was being targeted by the Taliban and she was paranoid so she would wait for he family to go to sleep and check all the doors and gates but leave her window curtains open.
ReplyDeleteIzzy, i agree that she wants the reader to feel that they are living in the moment whiling reading the book.
DeleteThe "Earthquakes" were very sad! Wi wonder if the adults knew that they were bombings instead of earthquakes and just told the kids that to not scare them. Being targeted by the Taliban would make anyone very anxious. I feel so bad for Malala!
DeleteShe is only around 11-13 years old and having to be a targe of one of the biggest religious/ tartest groups in your country. That's crazy to think about
DeleteFor a person like Malala I think it was probably a good choice to focus and describe her paranoia. I bet it was a really good way to show the terror she felt and helps the reader empathize with her, even more than just knowing her story.
DeleteIzzy, these seem like very good reasons and how the way Malala lives her life. I think they would make the readers imagination explode
DeleteI'm reading I am Malala. An image that I see clearly in my mind are the school her father runs, and the bus she was shot in. The most vivid part of the school I can picture is the upstairs apartment area she lived in as a baby. She says that the classroom was small and upstairs there was one bed and a separate room with a wooden chair in it. I picture the classrooms being separated and a big chalk board in the front. The second image I can see in my mind clearly is the bus Malala was shot in. She says that it was very cramped in there and there were three long benches. I picture a black tarp around it or just some way that the Taliban could not see in. Malala uses very good sensory words to make it easy to paint a picture in your head.
ReplyDeleteI also can imagine the bus that she was shot inn very clearly because she uses words and phrases that put the reader in her situation.
Deleteit seems like this book has a lot of detail, seems like a very good read!
DeleteIt seems Malala used a lot of sensory words to help describe the setting I have noticed the use of a lot of descriptive words in the book The Kite Runner too
DeleteImagery in I am Malala is used to depict they way of life the people in Pakistan had. When Malala talks about fleeing Pakistan I can see the other families packed into cars with no space to move. She also describes how the chickens looked when they returned because they had been starved to death as no one was feeding them. She also describes the was her father's school looked after the Pakistan soldiers used it as a shelter when they were fighting the Taliban in Swat. Malala uses a lot of imagery to put her readers in her shoes so they can understand what she was going through.
ReplyDeleteIn kite runner one of the images that was vividly described was Hassan getting shot out in the street. It was frightening the way Hassan was described as lifeless. Another very descripted image was when Hassan was raped. Everything about this was very descriptive such as the colors the motions the emotions it was all very vivid
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize all the things that are happening in this book! Sounds like an interesting read!
DeleteThe book i am currently reading is A thousand splendid suns. The description during the book makes you feel like you are with the characters at that moment and you can see everything happening. One scene where i felt i saw everything was when Mariam was coming home from running away the jalils house and she saw her mom killed herself and was hanging from the tree. when the author described that moment it made me upset and i had chills like i was there in that moment. another scene that made me feel like i was in the book was when Laila and Mariam left Rasheed and were just about to get on the bus but the police officers stopped them and took them back to the police station where they got interrogated and sent back home to rasheed where they got beat and locked in rooms. when the author described this moment i was shaking and my heart started racing because i didn't see that coming and i felt like i could imagine everything that was happening at that moment and where they were getting beat and where they had their blood all over Rasheed. overall the author gives the readers very clear images of what is happening in the book
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DeleteI definitely think these authors have an effect of making us all feel like we are right there with them. I really think it's interesting just how much I feel like I can compare A Long Way Gone with some of the scenes you mentioned in your book.
DeleteWOW Darcy, this is such powerful imeragry. Would you recommended this book to others?
DeleteThe book I'm reading is the kite runner and the author certainly uses some good imagery that left an impression on me. The first is how Hassan is described early in the book, his "friend" Amir describes him as looking like a doll and points out his cleft pallet and I got the vibe that he was really talking down about his friend in a way that was really weird. In his own mind he resented Hassan so wit was a good insight early in the book to understand amirs character. The second is nearing the very end of the book after Amir saves Sohrab he dreams of a man wrestling a bear who is assumed to be his father, but is revealed to be Hassan himself. Showing amirs feelings about the good that he had done and that he can finally measure up to his fathers standards. The author uses a lot of mystery in his description and I was not expecting the twist. I thought it was a really great image for the end of the book and really emphasized amirs character development. That he was starting to forgive himself/ realize the good he can do after his incident with Hassan in his youth.
ReplyDeleteThe way your author described Hassan reminds me very much of how Ishmael would describe all the bodies he found in the beginning in the book, but I feel like over the course of the book he has become desensitized to all of the violence.
DeleteThat's interesting, I thought that it was a little bit hard to picture when Amir was describing what he looked like.
DeleteI am reading Night, Elie really using imagery to help us understand and picture what really occurred in the concentration camps at the time of the holocaust. He describes well the burning bodies and what smell that brought to the camp. Another thing Elie describes well is the scene on the way to the concentration camp. A lady is seeing flames out the window, and no one else is seeing this. He describes this really, well and i can see how he really experienced it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very descriptive book.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, a vivid picture that is in my head is Mariam and Laila home. Because of all of the things that happen in this area, the room becomes very detailed with all the the wording or imagery the author gives. Another picture that stands out in the book is the toolshed that Mariam gets locked in when she does things wrong. This is shown through the amount of little details because it gives the reader a reason to use their imagination and see how the author wants them to see the area
ReplyDeleteI agree with how descriptive the author is when mariam and laila go to rasheeds house for the first time. It makes you feel apart of the book
DeleteGrace, I think I am going to be reading this book next. I really enjoy the imagery shown. Did you like this book or was it okay?
DeleteGrace this sounds like a really good book, what exactly hooked you to the book and made you choose it. I was gonna choose it as my next book before I started seeing blogs about how good The Kite Runner sounds.
DeleteI agree with you so many things have happened in the book and in the room.
DeleteIn the book night the author is able to create a vivid picture in my head of what happens at the concentration camps. one of the most vivid times was when they were on the train cart and there was a lady getting beat outside because she would not be quiet. Another time i could really see what was going on there was when Ellie was talking about the burning bodies. I was really able to invision this book will reading alot more than i ever have with books
ReplyDeleteI can totally picture what is described.
DeleteI agree with you, the author does a great job using vivid detail to paint the picture. How do you think he does this so well?
Deleteit seems the author has a purpose with these images, to stick them in your head so that you understand how horrific it was
DeleteI am reading Night by Elie Wiesel, and in this book, he does a really good job at painting a picture during every moment he witnessed as a prisoner in the concentration camps. Him describing how differently the guards treated him at each camp. All the forced labor he was put through, and all the dead bodies he encountered. The scene I can picture the best in this book is when they were throwing the fresh bodies off of the transport train at every stop not knowing if they were dead or just in a very deep sleep.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, there is never a dull moment in the book. Elie Wiesel does a good job at capturing the moment
Deletewow, that seems like a really interesting book! It seems like the author is good at imagery.
DeleteIn the book A Long way Gone, a image that is stuck in my mind is when the rebels raided his village and killed many and burnt it down this sticks in my mind because it shows how bad war is. Another image in my mind is when he is in the rebel camps and all of these little kids have guns and are trained to kill and this shows how terrible it is over there to be robbing kids of their childhoods. The last image in my mind is when Ishmael and his friends are having a peaceful day swimming in the water. This stuck with me because even in the middle of hell they still found time to be kids.
ReplyDeleteThat war when they raided the village, the way you described it shows how vivid it was. With how vivid the moment was just shows how it got stuck in you mind. It is nice how the kids were able to still act like kids through all they are going through. I really hope you continue to enjoy the book and enjoy the ending.
DeleteI am reading I am Malala. The two moments that stand out with how vivid they are. They are the all the stuff the Taliban has done to the citizens, bus shooting, and hospital scene. The images about the Taliban whipping people, burning TVs and CDs, and the black smoke from them, having the dead bodies on show in Thee Bloody Square. The author wrote it in a way that it was like I was there witnessing it. With the shooting and the hospital scene how it was written it made us feel like we were there, hoping that she would survive. How with the shooting the guys coming on the bus wasn't the last thing she remembered, her last thought wasn't I am getting shot. Her last thought was about revisions about her exam tomorrow. Her last thing she remembered was the guy beheading chickens. With the hospital it was made me want to keep reading to see what they did next to Malala. How they had to put her in a coma to help her heal. The surgery that she had to go through to remove a piece of her skull and help the swelling on her brain and the bullet. Those are the three key moments that have stood out for me with how vivid they all are.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Along Way Gone, Ishmael Beah has a great way (or terrifying way to some) of showing some of the most detailed and graphic descriptions of violence and just pure tragedies. One such situation was when Ishmael described the first time he was sent into the forest as a soldier, and the image that comes with it is one that truly makes the reader feel as though they are present with him. Another case is when the boys were describing their feet on their long journey, about how bloodied and injured they were. Ishmael is able to accomplish these images through the immersive wording and through plenty of repetition in that wording, just driving the image home while the story progresses.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading Night, by Elie Wiesel. The whole entire camp is musty and dirty, sick and weak people everywhere. I remember when they were in the train packed super tight, it was dark but a few people could look outside as they got to Auschwitz. There was black smoke rising to the sky, i remember this because it was the beginning of the end. The author captured the horror of this event by describing the feelings of the prisoners/ jews on the train. Another scene that stuck out to me was when everyone in the camp had to walk past the little kid that wasn't heavy enough to be hung, so he flopped around struggling for ten minutes until everyone was evacuated because it was taking too long. I do not know how he captured this scene, but it was very powerful.
ReplyDeletei can see why those images stand out in your mind
Deletethe author seems to do a vary good job of describing the details
DeleteIn the book The Kite Runner, the 2 images that really stick out to me are when they are in the back of the fuel truck crossing boarders. This really stands out to me because of way that the author described Amir and Baba. It was actually very sad they way that Amir had to live his life because they were trying to cross borders. In this scene I pictured all these different people's lives flashing before them because of the smell of the gas.
ReplyDeleteThe second image that really stands out to me is when Amir and Assef were fighting and Sohrab was there, that was such a sad scene. I was starting to tear up not knowing what the outcome would be. It was painted so perfectly, the describing and the small details was so incredibly perfect. In this scene I pictured Amir so bloody with all his clothes torn off, Assef not very bloody but still distressed.
I really like the way that Khaled described both of these scenes because it helped me to understand the way they live.
these were some great detailed parts in the book i also thought Khaled really did a great job using his words to paint a picture!
DeleteI agree with what Olivia said, there are some great detailed parts in the book that I've from everyone reading that book and talking about it in their blog. It just makes me want to read the book even more, so I can learn more about the book your reading.
DeleteI agree that when that was happening it was easy. I think that it is because of the emotion in the scene.
Deletei could 100% see how you envisioned them crossing the border in the truck along with how peoples lives flashed before them because of the smell and fumes of gas.
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala, 2 images that have been captured in my head throughout the book is when Malala was talking about her father's dreams of getting his very own school to make his own rules. This is vivid because she explains a lot she knows about her father and his dreams, and to me that's really sweet because she seems to really care about her family and her father by giving us all of this information. and the images being captured in my head is her explain a lot about her family and their dreams and what they want to do. Another image being captured in my head is when Malala started talking about when she was shot and when the Taliban came at night. Because all I see if Taliban's shooting girls and Malala for just going to school because they didn't agree with girls going to school and wanted them to stay home to do chores and cook and clean. I also just see Taliban's coming into their town at night, which I find creepy because I wouldn't want to stay in that town knowing the Taliban's are coming or that their in town just walking around looking for someone to scare.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a very good and interesting book, it also seems sad that there is someone shooting people trying to hurt them.
Deletethe two images that really stood out to me were when he watched his friend get chosen to be killed and when he was forced to kill all those people. these images were so clear in my mind because the author used so many different descriptions and made what he was talking about extremely detailed.
ReplyDeleteThese were some really detailed parts in your story! I remember all of these parts, the author creates a great picture and it shows throughout the story!
DeleteI thought that that part of the story was graphic especially when they are fighting against the rebels and he was watching people get shot and the words he used were so detailed that it was hard reading it.
Deletethat's a good way to imagine your book in your head
Deletei think the author does a good job with describing these moments in his life
DeleteIn the book a long way gone the author Ishmael Beah is very good at portraying events good or bad in the story with a good amount of description. One example is when he explains how the village is being burned down and he explains and shows with imagery how the dead bodies and buildings look being burnt. Another example is when they have the throat slitting contest and it really describes the blood and gore of it. The main character goes through many terrible events and the author is incredible at describing all of them it really makes me feel like I am there. They are very powerful images
ReplyDeleteI did the same events they were so graphic I was hooked after that stuff happened.
DeleteIshmael did a very good job of describing how the rebels destroyed their villages and how everything looked being burnt
DeleteIn the book The Kite Runner there was 2 images that would always stick out to me when Amir and Hasson are up on top of the hill and i could just invasion Amir just picking up the berries and throwing them all over Hasson's chest and screaming why don't you fight back and then all Hasson does is pick up a berry and smash it on his own forehead. that was 1 of the parts of the book that really stuck out to me. the second image that stuck out to me as well was when Amir and Baba were in the back of a truck and Amir was with people that he has never seen before and then they got to the border and a Russian soldier wanted payment for letting them cross over and he wanted to take this girl and rape her and Baba was standing up for that girl and Amir fully thought he was going to lose Baba.
ReplyDeleteSome images that caught my attention in A Thousand Splendid Suns was when Mariam's mother hung herself. I pictured Mariam running through the trees and seeing it, I also pictured her running home and being all confused. Another part where I pictured something was when Mariam went to her fathers house and walked all the way there, she was talking to a guy who gave her a ride and when she got there she waited for him and she was upset and sad. So far Mariam has had a tough life and I've pictured a lot of going on in her life so far.
ReplyDeleteYes she does have a very tough life. This was something that i also had a very vivid image of.
DeleteI agree I feel like the scene where Mariums mother hung herself was someting that I could visualize
Deleteyeah i agree to that mariam has a tough life from her paretns lying and not being able to beleive one of them and her mom killing her slef and her husband now that is always angree
DeleteWell there is many gory parts in the book that are very graphic and very easily able to imagine the scenes in the book. When they walked through the towns that the rebels have been through already he would graphicly describe the piles of dead bodies. Like how there arms were chopped of or that their skin was falling off the body and just very graphic parts. Or when they arrived to the safe village ran by the military they trained the kids and the general had a competition for the young boys and that they had to kill their rebel the fastest and that he was cutting his throat open and other stuff it was just graphic.
ReplyDeleteI agree with when Ishmael had to cut the throat of the rebel prisoner that it was a very graphic part of the book.
DeleteYes, seeing dead bodies everywhere you look including those that have had body parts cut off or burned so bad to be unrecognizable is very graphic and has to be very disturbing to witness in real life.
Deletei agree ishmael had really graphic descriptions through out the book
DeleteIshmael did a really good job describing the events he saw and describing the stuff he saw
DeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. by Khaled Hosseini. Throughout this book i feel like one of the most vivid photos that popped into my head was there surroundings, like the people around the and the area that they live in. I feel like that's talked about a lot in the book. Another thing would be Nana giving birth, I know that's really gross but i feel like when they explained that they went into a lot of detail. But overall those were the two vivid images that popped up in my mind when they explained it.
ReplyDeleteyeah same i feel like i can really visualize everything thats going on in the book, and everything in the book is very intreging and makes me wanna keep reading.
Deleteim reading a thousanded splended suns. mariam and laila work together now. Aziza grows fond of mariam, and the child is very needy and seeks mariams attention. mariam heart opens up to the childand the first actual and real connection opens up with mariam and the child. tension in kabal shifts and grows Rasheed is foceced to stay home from work becasue the fighting has gotten so bad. Rasheed fires his gun int he street and dares nyone to break into his house. when aziza follows him around the house Rasheed yelled at her to leave her alone. while the two woman take care of aziza, mariam opens up to laila about nana, jalil and his wife, mariam marriage to rasheeds temper had a turn. i think that mariams husband isnt a great person he seems to like to yell at her and just be mean he seems to have a very short temper and just short phused. i like the book a thousand splended suns its very intreging because theres always something new and its not justt boring.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and a scene in the book that I could picture was when Rasheed was beating his wife Marium after her and Laila tried to run away. I could imagine the blood all over her face and Rasheed dragging her out to the shed and putting her in there. Another thing that I can imagine is how he through Aziza on the bed and I can picture seeing Lailas fear and the baby crying. I think the author made this so visible through another character in the story watching it and explain what they saw. Like when Marium was getting beat Laila could hear everything from upstairs and saw outside her window when she was getting dragged to the shed with blood dripping down her face.
ReplyDeletedid you like laila or Mariam more in the main plot of the booki
DeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone there was 2 images that were really painted into my mind one of those moments was at the start of the book when the rebels first invaded Sierra Leone and the mother was carrying her child on her back whilst running from the rebels and trying to make it to safety and Ishmael watched as the mother ran closer and closer to him and then she stopped and grabbed her child and as she looked down at her child and seen a bullet sticking out of here dead baby. Another image that has been painted in my mind is when Ishmael becomes a soldier and they have throat slitting contest and see who can kill there prisoner fastest by slitting their throat. Ishmael used really descriptive words and and leading up to those moments he made it kind of build up on itself to really make the scene more dramatic and more heart wrenching and then i imagined a line of young boys with men on there knees tied up and these boys with bayonets in their hands they hold them up to their throats and slice them open and laugh whilst they are dying.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the throat slitting contest is crazy and the way Ishmael described the scene is insane. The amount of blood that can be produced by a human is crazy and I cannot imagine the mess it would leave all over.
DeleteA Long Way Gone does an awesome job with imagery. A couple examples of this in the book is when the church leader was tied to a chair and burned to death. The way Ishmael Beah described the scene was very graphic and in detail, so the scene has stuck with me. The way his burnt body just hung barely recognizable is crazy. The second scene is the throat cutting contest they were a part of. The description and examples of the amount of blood that spews out of people's necks is insane.
ReplyDeletei agree a long way gone does an amazing job and describing the graphic details
DeleteI also think that the sensory detail is very good in this book with all the very bloody and gory scenes that were very hard to think about because of how bad it sounds.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah uses strong word choices to create clear and powerful images in the reader’s mind. One image that stuck with me was when he walked through a village after it was attacked—he described dust and ash blowing in the air and the smell of burnt flesh. It felt scary and sad, like the village was frozen in time. Another image was when he talked about shooting his gun and feeling nothing. He said he didn’t even know if he was alive, which shows how much the war changed him. A third image was when the boys made a soccer ball out of rags and played in the sand. That part was touching because for a little while, they got to feel like kids again. These images are so strong because Beah uses simple, honest words and describes what he saw, smelled, and felt in a real and emotional way.
ReplyDeleteA part in The Kite Runner that sticks out to me that I can see very visually is the part after what happened in the book. When Amir was in the kitchen asking where Hassen was and the part where Amir was was throwing things at Hassen. I think that it was easier for me to visualize that part of the book for a few reasons. One of the reasons is because I thought that part of the book was interesting to me so it was just simply easier for that reason. Another reason it was easier for me to visualize was because of the way it was being described.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel and i have really enjoyed this because i like to learn about the concentration. you learn something new ever time you read it you might think you know everything about it but there is always another look at it and how a different family way they went through it. there is kind a lot of things going on
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book A Long Way Gone and I think that it shows a lot of imagery since it's based on a time where a civil war was happening and throughout the book there is shown a lot of imagery with there being gore, violence and other hard to see imagery. One part that stuck with me while reading is the scene where Ishmael had entered a village where it had smelt like dead flesh burning, smokey, and bodies everywhere. this scene when I pictured in my head it just felt disturbing.
ReplyDeletei agree with you on this. i belive that the burning town was the most picturative scene in the book
DeleteI agree with the sensory detail coming primarily in the civil war which is more in the beginning than the end of the book.
DeleteI am reading i am Malala and she does a good job painting a picture i the life that she lives. I can see Fazlullah talking in the radio and people praising him and following the things that he was saying. Like when he took away schooling for girls and dropped suicide bombers on girls schools. i can see the town destroyed and and the girls disappointed and scared that they cant go to school. I can also see Malala's dad going out and protesting all the things that are happening around and people telling him not to because people are threatening to kill him. I can see Malala's family terrified because they don't know if they can see their dad again.
ReplyDeletein the book a long way gone ishmeal beah used many different ways to describe the pictures he was telling. it varys from death, fire, peace and war. he uses amazing descriptive words and phrases and makes them all work
ReplyDeletethe book im reading is the kite runner and one of the vivid images would be when Amir watched his servant who was also his best friend get sexually assaulted by their bully Assef. another vivid image would be when Amir finds out that Hassan and his wife were murdered and their son was still alive so he goes to get Sohrab and finds out that Assef has him so in order to save Sohrab he has to fight Assef which leads to Amir getting a couple broken ribs a whole in his stomach and a cut open lip along with a bruised face.
ReplyDeletethe book i am reading has some vary graphic images that look vary hard to capture in my head but the author gives a good description of how these images impact ishmal. one image is of a guy who was stuck to a fence cause the rebels were upset with him so they lit him on fire. the author used things like how it smelled and walked by the charred body to stick this image in my head. a less graphic image that sticks with me is when the rebels acted like they were gonna kill this old man pointed a gun at his face while he was on his knees and shot past him. the fear in the old mans face he seemed to think he was dead. and how the sound he made when he cried he belived himself to be dead.
ReplyDeletewhy was it so graphic in the book or in this seection.
DeleteA Long Way Gone does an awesome job with imagery. A couple examples of this in the book is when the church leader was tied to a chair and burned to death. The way Ishmael Beah described the scene was very graphic and in detail, so the scene has been in the back of my mind. The way his burnt body just hung barely recognizable. The second scene is the throat cutting contest they were a part of. The description and examples of the amount of blood that spews out of people's necks is graphical.
ReplyDeleteA Long Way Gone did a great job with the sensory detail included with the crazy scenes like when Ishmael saw his first signs of people dying from the rebel rebellion to the government. The way he explains the blood dripping down off the mom when she was carrying her dead baby in her hands while holding on to whatever life was left there. These images are almost hard to read they are so in depth sometimes and when he explains death through out the whole story.
ReplyDeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, and i love how descriptive on how descriptive they are with malila when she was in jail. It was very descriptive and i could picture and feel her pain she was feeling. She was very scared and nervous because after she served her time for like 2 months she then got killed. It was sad to know the fear she had especially after all she has been through and overcame.
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