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 story there is happiness going on around the family, happy sounds of birds chirping while they are packing to move to a safer town then the author turned the sound of chirping into whistling rockets flying through the air. The tone drastically turns lifeless, paragraphs are space widely apart to show that she is fading in and out of consciousness.
ReplyDeleteI like the sudden and abrupt turn that it seems to have, truly a good way to show the horrors of war.
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DeleteI like the idea changing the format of the book to help the reader feel what the character is feeling it's a smart way to get the reader interested.
DeleteThroughout the story, not only does the author, Elie Wiesel shows a good way of giving the audience an image of physical torment but he shows a very incredible way of mental torment. First off he describes his characters reactions of a bad situations which gives off the atmosphere of the situations and the feeling. Second, he uses the main character, Eliezer, relationships to make a connection with the audience. For example, Eliezer family been taken from him one by one which could be a hard topic to read about for some audience. Finally, he makes his character question their religion which one wouldn't really question especially if they been devoted most of their life on. This gives the audience the idea of how much they been through which is a weird yet effective technique he does.
ReplyDeleteI ama not even reading the same book as you and I can imagine what all those things you describe. It sounds your author for sure went to full lengths to make sure you could understand what he went through and what all happened
DeleteI agree. I am also reading Night and I feel like he does a great job telling us how he feels.
DeleteMy author Elie Wiesel has been able to make me vision multiple things while reading. They were not necessarily great images, but I was for sure able to picture them. One specifically was right away on page 6 when Moishe the Beadle was telling Elie what he went through. He explained that the people were forced to dig holes and once they were finished they were shot and fell into the hole they just dug. Another part Moishe mentioned was when they threw up infants and used them as targets for their machine guns. These awful event were unfortunately very easy to picture. Another part that I could visualize was when they arrived in camp and were terrified about what was going to happen. Elie says he what he was feeling and the questions he had. He mention his inner thoughts about how he was wondering how it was possible that these people were being burned and the world did nothing. I could feel the confusion he was feeling and the fear. Another part in which I could picture his words was when he was watching the men and boy get hung. This was very hard to get through because I was able to see it in my head. Specifically Elie talks about how he had to walk by the victims and look them in the eyes. He gave details like how the victims touge looked and what color it was. Overall, Elie does a great job making readers visualize almost the entire book.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Elie does a good job with imagery, and it also helps that we've seen the movie Shindlers List because that gives us an idea of what Elie saw. I also thought the hanging scene was very easy to picture just because of the way Elie described it. I wish I didn't have to picture that because that was a tough part of the book.
DeleteWow. You could really tell that Elie could put a lot of detail into the book because it was real life and I feel that it maybe harder for some one that was not there to picture what was going on and then again I could be totally wrong and the could make so many things up and not know but to actually hear all they things that happened in the book is shocking and I could agree to how nervous anyone would be at that time.
DeleteI agree Elie truly does a good job at putting the reader in his shoes.
DeleteElie Wiesel does a great job of making his story very vivid. One part that I was able to picture, something I definitely did not want to picture was the part when some of the boys were being hung. He described what the boy looked by saying his tongue was hanging out, blue and his eyes were lifeless. Towards the end of the book, the Jews have nothing to eat and so they decide to start eating snow, and I can just imagine them all standing there eating snow. As well as some of the Jews laying in the snow banks, dead. Elie spends a lot of time describing these 2 parts and the more time he took on them, the better idea I got of what the scene looked like. Having watch Shindlers List also helps me picture things because I've seen the camps and can put the characters in this novel, in the setting of the movie.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad how they were treated. It sounds like the author did a great job of making it feel like you could picture what was happening in person
DeleteThe first image for me in my novel I am Malala would be the bus that she was shot on because its basically the whole reasoning for this book and there wouldn't be a book if it wouldn't have happened and there are a lot of details that she shares about it in the book. The second image would be the nest the Taliban made into the sides of the hills that surround the valley that they used for their machine guns that watch over the valley.
ReplyDeleteWow that sounds like a very in detail scene that sounds so disturbing. But your right this story probably would not have made as big of an impact if she did not survive and live on to tell her story.
DeleteDamn that would suck to be shot in the head. Do you think it hurt?
DeleteThat sounds like it would suck. I don't know what to say that would just be a bad day
Deleteim sure it didnt feel very good
Deletethe sounds really bad
DeleteThat sounds like a very sad situation to read. I am glad she lived, and she was able to tell her story.
Deletethat sounds like a scary scene but very detailed.
DeleteIn the novel A long way gone by Ishmael Beah there is a lot of gory and difficult parts to read. He goes into such great detail without any pictures. My first example is when Ishmael and his brothers are walking through a village and he sees a bunch of dead people laying on the ground with blood pouring out their heads, he then sits on them as a chair and take their extra ammo and food. My second example is when They go into a village that is burning to the ground and he describes how he sees a whole family in the house try to escape but they fail and are burned alive. He talks about how he can hear their screams and crying for help. It made me feel like I was in Ishmael shoes with how good the author went into detail.
ReplyDeleteWow that sounds like a very disturbing book to read. And very sad on how they just used these people's dead bodies to take their ammo and food. But sounds like the author does a good job of explaining the scene in great detail!
DeleteIn my book there is also a lot of hard parts to read, I have a similar part inn my book when my main character sees a bunch of Jews who passed away and they are all laying in the train cars and scattered throughout the snow banks.
Deletethat is a horrible thing for kids to see, i cant imagine seeing people just laid out in the street like that
DeleteThat sounds awful but at least he is able to help you picture what these people went through and witnessed.
Deletethat is awful for the kids to see that. but its detailed and you can picture it. my book had some parts that it was bad, but you could picture it.
DeleteI had the same book. it is crazy to think he is younger then us.
DeleteIn a thousand splendid suns Khaled Hosseini goes really into detail in his sex scenes, which honestly is not a good thing at all because they are all from a 14 year old girls perspective and it is always not consensual and with a 50 year old man and the amount of detail just makes you feel sick. There is also a scene he describes where Mariam is cooking her husband dinner and he says the rice is terrible and then goes outside and comes back with a handful of rocks and makes her eat them. The way he describes her chewing on the rocks is disgusting and it makes you feel horrible.
ReplyDeleteJeez it sounds like he did go in on the details, just not the part you would have preferred. Makes you feel a lot more like your in the person's shoes though, I guess.
DeleteThis book sounds like it will put a lot of emotional feelings into who ever is reading it. Even from this short description it packs a lot.
DeleteIn I am Malala when she returns to her home in Swat she talks about how damaged her home is from the fighting by describing it as though it was out of a movie. which made me imagine the kind of areas you see in call of duty or something like that. Or there is the time that she describes an English play by saying that she had no idea there was so many talented people in Pakistan. Which makes me imagine a video I watched of Alexander Hamilton. She accomplished this by using the readers memory or imagination instead of describing every last detail and making the story run on even longer.
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DeleteThroughout the book A Thousand Splendid Suns the author uses imagery to give use something for our mind to see when reading. Instead of us making up something in our mind he uses imagery to do it for us. Some examples of this are "Laila likes Muree's cool, foggy mornings and its dazzling twilights, the dark brilliance of the sky at nights; the green of the pines and the soft brown of the squirrels darting up and down the sturdy tree trunks; the sudden downpours that send shoppers in the Mall scrambling for awning covers." (p377). In this quote the author is painting us a vivid picture of Lailas surroundings so we can better understand what she is seeing. I feel like this really helps me when reading the book because it's easier to envision what they saw and how their lives were. Another example is “When sunrise came, the valley was paper white. The snow had stopped falling into the shapes of triangles and squares”. The author creates a powerful visual that helps show the surreal and beauty of the snow covered Afghan valley.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I love how he uses imagery to describe landscape and it makes you feel like you are really standing there.
DeleteI agree the author does a great job of setting the scene and does not leave much for the mind to have to interpret while reading. He does a great job of making the reader feel as though they are watching the story play out in front of them.
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ReplyDeleteits alway best when the wrighter has the reader in mind. like when the wrighter has a dont care atituide and donn sent care it can feel like the reader is left out
DeleteJesus that is graphic, i am glad im not reading that book i would probably be crying from how graphic it sounds and to imagine if she put every detail.
DeleteIt is good that she leaves no detail out so people can understand all the hardships she went through.
DeleteIn my novel a 1,000 splendid suns the author does a good job of going into detail on the important scenes and kind of brushes over scenes that might not be as important. My first example would be when Miram had her first miscarriage in the washroom that was shared with all the women on their street. The author explained how there was blood going down the drain, but Miram thought was a normal thing to happen. Another scene would be when rasheed and Miram finding Lalia after her house had been blown up and her parents were both dead, but she was not. Some of these scenes are very gore and hard to read.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this scene was very vivid and really helped you understand what was going on but it is hard to read at times.
Deletesounds super interesting!!!
DeleteIn my book Night I felt the exact same way reading. When I was reading some of the harder spots I had to take a moment before continuing. There was a part where boys were being hung that was just too hard to think about. It is such a horrible thing that these people went through these events. From everything I know about a Thousand Splendid Suns I cannot imagine being in Lalia or Miram shoes.
Deletesounds like a really interesting book
DeleteI am reading the book Night, and the author Elie Wiesel does a very good job at putting a very good picture in your head. Sometimes its to good and it makes me feel sick, and it makes it a little harder to read. One pat that I was able to picture pretty good was when he talked about the conditions of the first building that he was in when he first got there. They were forced to stand and could not sit and they were in deep mud and it was all over them. Another thing that I could picture that was definitely a little bit more tough to read was the part where they were hanging kids for no reason. He went really in depth over this and talked about how there tongues were hanging out and how they had no life left to them. Overall the imagery is very good.
ReplyDeletethis book has so many detailed parts but the one about the hangings was something else. especially how he said there was a kid that got hung but didn't actually die for 30 minutes and he just hung there as everyone had to walk by him.
DeleteI agree that the book gets harder to read sometimes, the way that Elie Wiesel described the events is crazy to me. I feel like the reason he describes it so well is because this was a real thing that he experienced.
DeleteYes, Elie really does do a great job sharing these moments through his words. I also feel as if it made me sick reading some parts. We thought similarly about the major visualization parts. In my blog I wrote about the hanging scene and how vivid it appeared in my mind. When I read these parts, it made me feel awful for Elie and the jews that they really had to go through this.
DeleteAgree, this book does show some good imagery, but imagining all of this, I'm scared.
DeleteIn the book A Long way Gone by Ishmael Beah, the author describes brutal scenes that he saw in the war. some scenes he described that stuck with me was when he described having to bury someone alive and just the numerous dead bodies he came across throughout the book. he spares no detail when describing things so it is very easy to picture even the most gruesome detail.
ReplyDeleteCobblestone I agree with what your saying. Beah leaves out no detail and really makes you feel every gruesome scene that he witnessed throughout the war
DeleteI agree with what you are saying. Beah is able to recall the most gruesome parts of the war that stuck with him and has no problem going into vivid detail about everything that had happened and he had to go through as a child solider. Reading this book has made me feel very thankful I got to grow up, and still today not having a country at war with another country.
DeleteMy author also does a good job describing the deaths of people in the book Kite Runner. The way he describes his dad slowly dying from cancer and the changes in his body and the description of other people dying is frightening at the same time and puts a solid image in your head.
DeleteThat is pretty crazy how he can explain that stuff so good. Knowing that it is pretty hard for him to go back and think about ho brutal his life was at such a young age.
DeleteThat is crazy and to think that someone actually went through things like that and the fact that it is real and he is describing it from experience is horrible.
DeleteThroughout the book the Kiter Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses imagery throughout the book with describing the hardships the Afghanistan people faced with the Taliban. The Taliban put fear into the people of Afghanistan as even looking at the Taliban can get you killed. Many afghans are afraid to walk in the streets with the fear of getting gunned down. The main target for the Taliban are women as they see woman crap not giving them the chance to work jobs and basically giving them no rights, it makes me realize how grateful I truly am to live in a country with no war.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the way the taliban is described helps you understand how bad it was during that time.
DeleteThe way you describe Kite Runner, it makes me feel sympathetic towards the Afghanistan people. I never imagined that people could be this bad to one another.
Deleteyes i also agree that Khaled Hosseini made a effort to express how bad it was and how they treat people but i mean Hassan knows all to well.
DeleteThroughout this book the author has a very direct writing style, so imagery is very vivid. One point in the book is where thee author had described Rasheed and what he was like. The author said he had yellow, pulled back finger nails and tall, thick-bellied, and smelt like smoke and strong odor. Another time where a author used vivid description is when he described what Lilia was like, she had blonde bouncy, curly hair, and was made out to be the most beautiful girl. I think the reason these captured my mind was because the author did a great job describing the main people and really wanted his readers to know what they looked like and even their smell, it really helped capture a picture in my mind while reading.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. This author's writing style is very direct and straight to the point. It gives you the details that you need to know and the information to set the scene within your head. I also picture Rasheed to be exactly how you described him.
DeleteThat is so true the author spent a lot of time talking about how gross Rasheed was and how beautiful Laila was.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns one of the pictures that I can see very clearly is when Rasheed locks Laila and Aziza in the dark room for the warmest days of the year with no food or water. He left them in there for days. The author goes into detail about how they can't see but they can sense everything, and the author makes you feel as though you are right there with them. The author makes you feel the senses by describing the smells, what Laila feels and how she looks. Another thing that I could envision easily was the dinner table conversation where Rasheed is questioning Zalami and Laila about Tariq being alive and him being inside of his house. It is such a tense moment that I felt as though I was watching a movie because I could picture their facial responses and reactions to everything that was being said. The author does a very nice job of portraying his scenes within the book.
ReplyDeleteKhaled Hosseini has a way with his writing, he goes straight to the point, but also adds so much detail and the realism of the scenes in his book makes you picture everything throughout this book.
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DeleteI agree that Khaled Hosseini makes you not only see but feel the senses by describing the smells, what the characters feels and how he or she looks. Another thing that I think he does well is making it feel like a movie in how he paces.
DeleteIn a Long Way Gone Ishmael goes into great detail about the tragic things he sees throughout the war. Some of the scenes that stick with me are the ones were he first saw the rebels kill and saw the mother carrying the dead baby on her back and the other is when he punched the glass and his hand got stuck and the nurse had to pull it out and he had no reaction to this. He makes sure that he tells you everything he sees and drags out what he sees by explaining it for a long time.
ReplyDeleteI agree that when he sees something traumatic or gory he talks about it for a very long time going into detail of what he saw and how he recalls feeling. The parts about the killing of the dead baby and the glass scene were hard to read and I wish he had not gone so much in debt because it actually happened in real life.
Deletesounds like a great book!!
DeleteJee wilikers carrying a dead baby is bonkers
DeleteThroughout the book A Long Way Gone the author Ishmael Beah transforms you into the country of Sierra Leone in Africa. Beah does a great job storytelling and includes multiple points of imajrey in every page, and makes you feel like you are in his shoes and are seeing what he is seeing which is crazy considering he was only twelve years old and remembers every detail of his travels, as writing his book now as a adult. Beah goes into vivid detail in every part of Sierra Leone he travels to, in the forest, his setting around him, the type of clothes he and his friends are wearing, what the rebels look like and there types of uniforms. As he moves from place to place he also uses imagery in the housing he lives in, wether it is a hut, a broken down house, or his stay in a tent with his other friends. He also uses imajery and goes into detail at his stay in the Berlin home, going through rehablitation but also as he makes his way to Freeport and New York to live with his uncle as cousin as he describes the big city and how it is different from his hometown.
ReplyDeleteI like how Beah uses imagery for lots of things, it's not just the war but his surrounding of the country is also very good. He uses a lot of detail which is good because I don't think any of us have experienced something like what he went through.
Deletethe author of the kite runner has a way of bringing scenes to life. one vivid image is the sight of the kite flying battles. the way the author describes the colorful kites against the grey Kabul sky, the tenson on the string, and the kids running through the streets creates such a dynamic and colorful visual. another is the haunting image of the alleyway scene, witch is so intense and emotionally charged that it sticks with you long after reading. Khaled Hosseini's use of sensory details and emotional language really makes these scenes pop in your mind.
ReplyDeleteso this auther is more of a visualy person when the auther of night dascribes the feel of things but i feel like a combo of both is best
DeleteI agree that the author is very descriptive when it come to colors and things but there are times where I think the author gets to descriptive
Deletelike you said it wasn't just Khalid's word choice that allowed us to visualize these scenes. The alley way portion for instance had so many emotions behind it that it almost overwhelms you and it really makes you think and wonder how or what you would do in those situations.
DeleteI can agree with the alley scene it was so gruesome, the author is really good at describing the pain and horror in different countries, do you think Amir will ever forget that scene.
Deletein the book night the auther best portray the feels of every thing around him by what if felt like to him like cold or gleming or towering all in revelince to you. so that you can realte it to thing in your life. like when the crematorium came he refered to the water tower in his home town and its very easy to relate to him
ReplyDeleteIn the book A long Way Gone, the author uses a great description of his emotions of the actions of what is going on. Because of the different culture and landscape in the country that they are in makes it difficult to picture where they are at and what they are going through. But the actions of intense situations are told very well. The author describes very well on how he tortures rebels and explains his reasoning behind it. Also when he was passing through a village with peoples limbs torn off along with their heads on the ground was easy to picture when he explained it as he did not want to look but his mind forced him too. I thought that help visualize it much more.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Kite Runner the author describes scenes very well. One vivid scene is the part at the stadium. The description of the holes and the taliban puts a good picture in my head of what was happening and it was intense. The author uses good description of how the crowd is as well as what is going on the field. Another scene is when Amir goes back to his house for the first time. The author uses good description of what the house looks like now with boards on the windows and the paint fading. It helps you understand how the country has changed since the taliban showed up.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the author was very descriptive when they talked about Amris house when he came back to Kabul
DeleteThats nice that the author does a good job describing what the enviroment looks like. i wish that was something that was described better in my book.
DeleteThat's good for you that the author does a good job at showing all that stuff. that defiantly makes it a lot easier to read and know what is going on.
DeleteThat is good that the author is very descriptive because it makes the book easier to read.
Deletethat's great that the other is so descriptive through his words and it maker the book just painted into your mind
DeleteIn the book Kite Runner the author is very descriptive so it makes it easy to put a picture in your head. One way its so easy to have an image in your head is when Amir is describing the damage that Kabul gone threw. He also is good at describing the feelings of the character like when Amri lost his dad. Another part of the book that is descriptive is when Amri found out he was half brothers with Hassan.
ReplyDeleteKhalid showed his descriptive powers early on in the book when we were just learning who the characters were. I do remember thinking that no one should ever have to think about what the characters look like.
DeleteI agree that Khaled did a really good job describing what Amir saw and felt when he went to Kabul.
DeleteFeelings are a good way to give the audience a sense of image
Deletei agree that the author succeeds at describing what a character is feeling during any pivotal moment. the damage that Kabul has gone through is a image i don't think many want to imagine though.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns one of the scenes that I can see very clearly is when Rasheed makes Mariam eat the dirt pebbles that he gathered from outside after complaining about the rice she made. The author goes into detail in the scene about how she can taste everything, and the molars and blood coming out of her mouth, the author makes you feel as though you are right there with the two while this scene is happening. The author makes you feel the senses by describing the smells, sights, and tastes with each scene with this book. With each and every scene in this book I could picture their facial expressions and reactions to everything that was being said, the author does a fantastic job of portraying the scenes within A Thousand Splendid Suns
ReplyDeleteI can very much agree! Khaled Hosseini is like a wizard when it comes to how good he is making images in his writing. Many times I felt as if I was right there in the scene itself.
DeleteThe kite runner could relate to the sights in our book and what the buildings where like and how some people lived in huts and had nothing to eat because they would help strangers out and give them mostly all they had so they felt good or helpful
DeleteI love /hate that authors do this, I love the detail on one hand but on the other i find it hard to read on how disgusting it is.
DeleteI could also very well imagine Rasheed making Marium eat the pebbles. It made me so uncomfortable reading that part of the story.
DeleteIn the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explained every moment so vividly you could capture it in your head. There is many moments in the book where I feel like I'm watching it rather than reading it. One of the biggest moments were around page 85, when all the prisoners were forced to run. If they stopped for just a second, they would be shot. Elie described that it was very painful for his feet to run after injuring it, nothingness in the extremely cold weather. There was a boy next to Elise named Zalman who was having stomach problems. He couldn't catch up with Elise and collapsed and potentially died from being trampled. This part in the book is where I can picture the most because I remember running in cold weather during cross country.
ReplyDeletei think night does a fantastic job at describing every event in such detail that you can almost watch what is going on as if it were a movie.
DeleteThis scene was the most surreal part of the book. I couldn't fathom what they had to go through as they ran through the snow but Elie deals a great job in explaining how it went down.
DeleteI would add that when they had to run in the cold for miles and miles I couldn't imagine running and having to step on someone who fell Infront of me soon after hearing a gun shot or the screams and so cold, but hot that it would make me feel like giving up.
DeleteWhen the boy with stomach problems was trampled to death, I realized in the book it was now survival of the fittest and people lost faith in other people instead of helping they did what's best for themselves and this was probably the worst feeling knowing that no one not even people going through the same trauma and can relate to you would help each other.
DeleteElie Wiesel does a fantastic job of making the reader Invision what is happening. for example, on page 33 where they are all getting separated one inmate comes up to Elie and tells him he is going to the crematorium. the number of details that help the reader understand how the concentration camp looks feels smells and the thought process of someone that is going through it all. Also, on page 87 where they are running away from the camp. Elie tells us how painful the run was by explaining that if you fell behind a guard would shoot you. and then it actually happened to some people. also, he explained how exhausting it was and how he was pretty much a lifeless corpse being pushed by the crowd. this makes me think of a group of people running with no emotion and just running because they know they have to. this book has so many parts that you can envision that sometimes you have to take a step back to realize how bad things actually were.
ReplyDeleteIn the book I am reading The Kite Runner the author Khaled Hosseini uses descriptive writing/words like when Baba gave Amir a car and they were driving home in the ochre yellow buick "Baba dozed off like snoring like a jackhammer. I smelled tobacco on him and alcohol, sweet and pungent." I can imagine that scene in my head the sounds and smell also the words like Ochre- means irony orangish, Later how the author could describe the car Amir got was good,
ReplyDelete"old model ford long and wide a dark color-a Grand Torino navy blue with fading paint." I could see the car when he is describing them.
the author does use many descriptive words in scenes that don't have much going on. I could also see the car that the author described.
DeleteIn the book, Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to describe the scenes. One big scene where imagery had the biggest impact was when Elie was running with all the other Jews, away from the Russians. He used descriptive text to describe their hardships. It was almost as If I were there with Elie, feeling what he felt and seeing what he saw. For example, watching other Jews drop dead after being shot for not running with the pack. another part where imagery was used was when Elie and all the other Jews had to go through the selection process. Elie also used great descriptive word choices to create a sense of fear. The way he described the survival type instincts while running through the selection process were notable as I could imagine how he must of felt.
ReplyDeleteI agree when you say you feel like your with him when it was happening. I feel like I'm watching what's happening rather than reading it. Elie makes the book so descriptive for how small the book is.
DeleteI agree with the part when they would get shot for not running especially when they had to run and run becoming tired if they stopped running than they would get shot.
DeleteI feel as if Elie described the Jews to be more as zombies with no purpose other than to move forward and this shows that they had all given up but their survival instincts just wouldn't let them quit.
DeleteA Thousand splendid suns is a book full of imagery and due to the vulgarness of the scenes it can be painful to read at times, especially for the time this book is based on. Some quotes that really stand out for main points in the book is "Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman." This stands out a lot as it shows how Afghanistan can be especially however many decades ago because they treat women there terribly. Another quote is "There was something deep in Mariam's core that neither Rasheed or the Taliban will be able to break. Something as hard an unyielding as a block of limestone." That shows how determined and how amazing Mariam is for dealing with all of this.
ReplyDeleteKhaled gives you the details that you need to know and the information to set the scene within your head, so the descriptions of the characters as well as realistic details in each scene, all of it stays in your head
DeleteIn the book "The Kite Runner" the author creates vivid and at times emotional imagery through his choice of wording and describing each encounter precisely. The main description of imagery that Khaled Hosseini described vividly was when Hassan was being sexually assaulted by Assef. With his description it almost felt as if I were there hiding with Amir as it happened, To the description of Hassan struggle to the description of Hassan blood stained pants to the descripted emotions Amir was feeling watching it happen it had made me feel the exact same way. Another example was when Amir and his father where in the fuel truck when they where feeling Kabul. He was able to describe how Amir was physically feeling breathing in the fumes and described how pitch black the fuel truck was. With these descriptive detail in mind you are able to vividly imagine the journey of Amir's life.
ReplyDeleteWhen Elie talked about his experience with the pit of flames in the beginning. It made imagine him looking down in a pit of flames where there are bodies being burned and you can start hearing everyone panic for their lives and screaming as one falls in burning alive. The second one was disturbing. When they had to watch a kid be hung and from the description from the book, I imagine if I was Elie, I was looking at the kid seeing him gasp for air, seeing his eyes start to turn red and him swinging back and forth trying to not struggle. His tongue beginning to swell up red. I felt Elie had accomplished the task of being in terror of seeing near death and actually watching someone die in a way that is cruel.
ReplyDeleteWhat are some symbols in The Kite Runner? Three symbols in the Kite Runner include the pomegranates, the trees, and the kites. The pomegranates symbolize fertility which shows that Amir and Hassan are half-brothers. Their fraternal relationship is reinforced by the trees. Kites reflects fate which is seen through the fortune teller refusing to tell Hassan about his fate. What figurative language is used in The Kite Runner? Hosseini uses foreshadowing, flashbacks, similes, metaphors, and imagery throughout his novel. Imagery, descriptive language using the five senses, enables the reader to engage with the text and become immersed in the events. Hosseini especially uses sight, sound, and smell imagery to characterize people.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Kite Runner, Khalid did an outstanding job on being very descriptive and used a wide vocabulary. For instance the first scene that I could picture clearly was the kite fighting tournament. Not only was it the wording he used to convey such a scene but it was the energy he put behind it and it grabbed my attention, this allowed me to focus and visualize it better. I had a perfect image of the final maneuver Amir pulled off in the tournament and the joy on everybody's faces. The other scene was the fight between Assef and Amir. During the fight Khalid was using many similes and thoroughly elaborated on the situation at hand. With that said it allowed me to get a bigger picture and truly imagine the damages Amir was sustaining.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't really able to imagine the final scene in the kite tournament. I don't know anything about kite fighting so that is probably why I was struggling to imagine it.
DeleteI agree, using the similes to describe scenes helps to convey the main idea without outright telling us what is happening
DeleteIn the book The Kite Runner the scene that Khaled Hosseini wrote the best was when Hassan got raped. From how he described the alleyway to how dark the blood in the snow was. I could picture the scene very easily. He also described Amir's emotions in great detail. When I was reading the scene I felt like I was Amir. I could see what he saw, hear what he heard and think what he was thinking.
ReplyDeletei can see how the writer of your book gives of the detail have to experience what had happened to him.
Deletethat scene made me suter
DeleteOne of the most striking images in A Long Way Gone wasn't even dwelled on for very long. There is a scene where the boys are crawling across a swamp, and the ground is covered in bodies, their blood mixing with the water and saturating the muddy ground. I could easily see in my head the flies landing in the blood and being unable to fly away, drowning themselves due to overeating. Another vivid image is that of the village used at the end of the first chapter. It describes how the village appears at night, with the crickets chirping away the last of the day, the cracking of branches and mortars, and smoke would rise from the houses as people carried in firewood. The first image is effective because of its obscenity. It shows the cruelty of the rebels and you can feel the disgust Beah has for the situation in his writing. The second image was memorable to me because of its familiarity. In a book filled with experiences I have no personal connection to, the village at night is reminiscent of sitting on a balcony and watching a city glow in the night and fade into darkness as the lights turn off. Its effectiveness is boosted because its a bastion of familiarity in a sea of novel experiences.
ReplyDeletein the book Night Elie used word that were very descriptive words for use to be able to see in our minds what he is saying. one of the point where he dose this is what the talks about the boy in the train car have to watch his mother get bet as well the what he talk about them when they were running as a group of jew and if they end up falling or slowing down showing any sign of weakness they were shot and killed.
ReplyDeleteI had the same things, as I feel like these were the most horrid pictures getting put into our minds reading the book.
DeleteI feel like this book you can imagine the most because we have a lot of background knolage about the holocaust
DeleteIn the book Night, Elie used word to describe what his surroundings were like showing how the Nazis treated their prisoners, in one instance there was a point in the book where Elie was running with his group and if anyone fell the Nazis would shoot them not wanting any weak links in there camp trying to maximise usefulness, because the Nazis did not want to supply food to Jews that would not be worth it. Another part where Elie watched a friend get beat right in front him showing how the Nazis broke down the moral of everyone in the camp by letting everyone know how helpless just by beating someone to death if they wanted to.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same things with his writing because what these points of the story allowed us to imagine threw what he said and how that allowed us to feel.
DeleteI agree those scenes were described very well and you could almost feel what they were going through from just his words.
Deletethat sounds like it it very vivid. I do wish i had the chance to read this book in class.
DeleteI agree Elie explains/shows us very well what happened in those camps and how they were treated so poorly to the point they were almost like animals.
DeleteIn I am Malala when she returns to her home in Swat she talks about how damaged her home is from the fighting it reminds me of American sniper movie the way she describes. Another one was the when she got shot on the bus the way she talks about it there's no way you cant picture it to a T i think that scene is the one that stuck the most to me.
ReplyDeletemy book a long way gone does a good job at describing what happens in the war and all the bad parts of the war. like getting separated from your family or seeing death every way you turn. i feel bad for Ishmael because he had to live Thore all this.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book. Elie does a great job describing his surroundings. When he talked about the hangings he described them in great detail, this part of the book was very hard for me to read. I'm sure he does a wonderful job describing it because this is something you would never forget given how traumatizing that is. He also did a great job telling us how he got beat with crate and he really used his words when talking about it. He definitely showcased his fear and how things really were.
ReplyDeleteAs i read the same book i totally agree with that. It was defiantly difficult to read as the characters are so real and the events are so horrifying.
DeleteI am reading the book Night. In this book Elie the main character uses many details to describe not only how he is feeling but how other people are to. When reading I can imagine what is going on through his eyes when he is on the crate getting whipped, I feel as if I have the perspective of Elies point of view, I can picture the mean German guard yelling and whipping him constant times for walking in on the soldier and a girl. At the start of the book when Moishe is describing what the Nazis are going to do to the Jews and no one believes him i can imagine the Babys getting thrown in the air and being shot and it is a gruesome picture that has not been able to leave my head. A big part for me in the book was when the little boy was playing the violin he had nothing left and Elie did a great job describing how you could tell the boy was playing with his heart and soul and since this is the last song he ever played it made the music play in my ears and i could see the boy's face and body doing something he loves before he dies.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing to me that SS officers would treat other like that. I understand they had strict and demanding orders, but I would never let myself treat other innocent and helpless people like this.
DeleteI was surprised about the SS and the girl, it hit me with a curve ball to the head. My mind was like "why would someone do this, just to get away with it".
Deletei am reading thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini. there are many things I could picture but the ones that stick out to me are when the women try to run away, and they got caught. I could see them trying to get on and getting stopped and not being able to get on. the other thing i can picture is when Rasheed is beating up on Mariam, i can just picture him beating up which is sad.
ReplyDeleteThese seem to be two horrifying events in the book. I choose some of the challenging events in the book also. I think we choose thoughts because they had such an impact on us in the story.
Deletethe author of the kite runner used vivid descriptions to ingrain images into the readers mind. two images that I can clearly see within my mind is first the tournaments of kite fighting and second is when Assef gets shot in the eye with a slingshot. these images are so vivid in my mind because of the fact that the author chose to use these moments as a place where a important event happens to the main character as in the first scene Amir wins his first ever kite fighting tournament and in the second Amir passes out after getting severely beaten up by Assef.
ReplyDeleteI agree, with big events like that its easy to remember the small details
DeleteI was able to remember every detail of it
DeleteI read A Thousand Splendid Suns an image that has really been captured in my mind is what Laila looks like with blonde hair and beautiful eyes. Laila was described to be a very beautiful girl. Another thing that I was able to imagine very well was where Marium grew up. A small house with animals all around and nothing else around for miles. The author described the house and the surroundings very well. They are so vivid in my mind because it was something brought up a lot through out the book.
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting and i like how you described the meanings of both of them.
DeleteIn the book Night the two images that really stand out to me is the image of 100 people in a train cart turning into 12 people left alive in a train cart. The other image is Eliezer and his dad laying in the bunks where the sick stay. This was when Eliezer's dad was dying. I think the author Elie does this so you have a lasting impact from his words. He never wants people to forget the horrible things people went through during the holocaust. Both of these sense in the book are pretty graphic but they where some of the hardest times for Eliezer. Overall i picked these because they were very sad and meaningful.
ReplyDeleteThis scene also stood out to me Addie, my claustrophobia could never handle being crammed in a hot and tight space with that many people. I would've rather been shot that have to endure that kind of conditions.
DeleteI agree with you Addie. The train cars in the book, reminded me about the movies about the holocaust that I have watched when they loaded the Jewish people into the train cars. The people didn't even know what they were in for.
DeleteIn my book "Night" there are multiple scenes within the book that contain vivid language and graphic material. Some scenes that stick out to me are when Ellie and his father are beaten repeatedly by SS officers, sometimes for no reasons at all. Another scene that was almost too much for me to was when the author talked about thousands of innocent people walking towards the big "oven" the burned to death. These were both hard scenes for me to swallow, but I think the author did this to give a very surreal image of what conditions were like during the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is called Night. The images that stood was when they were watching one of their own going to a cauldron and gets shot by maybe an SS troop. Another image is when Elie was being whip so many times and still survives it.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Long Way Gone the imagery that stood out most to me was when Beah watched as the people in a village were being massacred. The author made this part stick out and it was almost as if you were in Beahs shoes watching it happen. Another part was when he went on his first mission to kill the rebels. I think the author made these images stick out because it was when he first experienced people dying and his first time killing someone. These memories would never be able to be forgotten especially when they happened at such a young age.
ReplyDeleteIts weird to think that someone that age had to go through something that traumatic. Its nice that the author uses imagery to show how meaningful it is to Beah and how it could possibly affect him.
DeleteMy first image that was painted in my mind was kite running tournament this was so vivid because of it being so popular as like a cultural thing because we do not have anything similar to this but i compare it to like football at are school as we are really into it almost like they are to the kite tournament. the second way the author is painting the image so clear of Amir and baba leaving there home to go to America. this is so realist because now days everyone wants to move to America for better opportunity most people just sneak in and that's the difference between them and others
ReplyDeleteIn the book The kite Runner the author uses many words to paint a picture. There are so many examples. The author uses senses to paint a picture like sight, smell, taste, and touch. One example is when Amir is reliving his past and remembers the smell of cigarette smoke and hearing laughter from his fathers study.
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting i feel like you should tell us a little bit more about how you saw and imagined it.
DeleteThe first imgaie that i can see and that popped up in my head was when he was talking about learning how to figtht back and learning how to kill. I could just igagen this young kid with no shirt on and in flip flops just trying to learn with his friends. I picture a lot of young kids with akas in there hands and i see a big guy trying to teach them. Another one i can imagine in my head is when the book just started and he's talking about stepping over bodies and dead people in his home town. I can just picture it like and invasion and i see all dead bodies arround him. And i can just see how he is looking at them and reacting to it
ReplyDeletethat is very interesting. I feel like i could imagine those things myself. Isn't it weird how reading a book can make your imagination go wild.
DeleteIn the book Night by Elie Wiesel, we see a lot of imagery happening. For example, on page 6 he is describing what Moishe the Beadle went through when he was rounded up and what was happening. He goes into detail about how those who were rounded up were forced to dig trenches before being shot. He says they were brutally shot and that the infants were thrown into the air and used as targets for machine guns. Another time he used imagery is when the little boy is being hung. From the words Elie uses you can easily tell how everyone was feeling about what was happening. From their facial expressions to the way their bodies reacted to this horrific scene.
ReplyDeleteI 100% agree I believe this book did a very good job of using imagery and getting the reader to better understand the story and what he experienced in these moments.
DeleteThe author is putting me in my seat and grabbing my 100% full attention. By doing that, I have been having images like Elie being whipped 25 times the transport images. The way the author describes the smoke from the chimney, the way he describes the ladies blood curdling scream I think these images are so vivid because when he is talking about these events in the book, he really tries to put you inside the concentration camp with him. All of the terror and terrible things done, all of the dead bodies, the boy hanging struggling between life and death. It really makes you feel bad for them and just to think that one man do do all that is crazy.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very good author, can't wait to read the book.
Deletethe author of The Kite Runner has a way of describing scenes. One image is the ruined town from battles. the way the author describes the desolate grounds and how there is a lack of trees to fear of snippers and using the wood to make it through the winter. another picture shown is the colorful part of the book when Amir gets to play with Kites and feels happier than when he's not.
ReplyDeleteThose scenes were really detailed in the book, it is crazy the author can do that as good as he did.
DeleteIn The Kite Runner the author describes the scenes of Afghanistan during war. One example of this is when he details the events at a soccer game where at halftime the Taliban buries a man and a woman halfway up their torsos where the Taliban proceeds to thrown stones at their heads until they are dead. Another is when the author describes the scene of his hometown when all of the trees were chopped down because there was snipers in them.
ReplyDeletethe author did a great job panting pinchers in the book a long way gone. there was a lot of great ones but the ones that stuck out to me was when he shot someone in the foot. he went into great detail about it. it was like watching a movie. He so good at including details. author one was when he was sitting outside with his friend drinking a coke. this was during a really hard time for him. he just got out of the war and his doc gave him it to gain his trust.
ReplyDeleteI read the book Night, and though this book is quite short, but non-the-less highly discriptive. For context, this book was written by Elie Wiesel about his experience during the holocust in Auschwitz. One moment that really got me hooked in this book was one in chapter 2 when they were in a train car being transported to Auschwitz, one of these moments within the car was an older woman with her young son. What happened that gave me a particullar intrest was the fact that she went completely crazy. She kept speaking, almost to the point of yelling, about a great fire or a flame upon the horizon, she also seems to interpite the flame or fire as a great hell. She went on-and-on speaking and yelling about this fire to the point to where the other people within the car tied her down and gaged her just to have the ability to sleep. And the other extremely discriptive point was about how the main character, Elie Wisele, had gotten his foot infected. So, inorder to live they had to make a cut to open a puss filled point wheree the infection was. That was one of the most zombie-like discriptives I've read in a while. All-in-all, this book was quite great, I highly recommend this book.
ReplyDeleteIn the book “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, he describes what he seen when he visited Pakistan when he went looking for a long friend. some scenes he described that stuck with me was when he described was when he is fighting his childhood bully. He spared no detail when describing things, so it is easy to picture every detail.
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