Blog Response #7
Imagery is key to capturing the reader's imagination and taking him/her on the adventure within the book. All 4 authors use several different techniques to paint a picture in your mind of the scenes within the plot of the book. Share two or three images that have been captured in your mind through the author's word choice. Why are these images so vivid, and how did the author manage to accomplish this task? Be sure to include specific details of what you envisioned through the author's words.
In the book "Night" there are many times that imagery is used to capture the readers feelings. These images were slightly detailed but could be easily set in my mind because of how disgusting they were. One image that was captured in my mind was how everyone looked. I knew that with the amount of food the inmates would get that they were skinny, but the way the author would explain the color of their skin and the bones showing through their skin made me picture it perfectly. The second image captured in my head was the cold miserable death march. Dead bodies everywhere; people falling asleep to take naps unable to wake up. The way the author accomplished this was by nothing more than telling exactly what he saw. Each and every detail was true.
ReplyDeleteHey Sara, I am also reading night and i could not imagine what these poor people looked like, they had to be so skinny because they would go days without eating! And when they would eat they would barely get anything. I also cannot believe that they had to walk for so long in the snow, and how they were able to stay awake.
DeleteThese images sound very disturbing. When i imagine starvation, i picture people with their ribs showing and a sharp drop off to their stomach. For the death march, i would picture dark, cloudy skies to promote the mood of melancholy.
DeleteHi Sara!
DeleteI think some images can really be too gross to understand. When the author describes uncomfortable situations, it can cause mixed feelings, and I am not a fan disgusting pictures. I think it can also make the reading harder when the author goes into that much detail.
Kaylee Schueller
The way some of the prisoners looked also stuck with me because they never got much food or coffee leaving many of them to starve. The death march sounds awful too because if one person fell they either got shot or ran over by other prisoners following behind them.
DeleteI can assuredly say, that this book might as well be a graphic novel. The images were so vivid, anyone could come up with the same picture in their mind.
Deletethe images you are describing make it seem like the author does an amazing job at using descriptive words and making as many scenes as possibel mentally viaseble
DeleteHey Sara,
DeleteI have to agree with you all the nasty and disturbing images in this book. I like how Elie describes all of it but it may be so much you have to stop reading.
I agree he does such a great job at putting an imagine in your head, but he almost does to well considering it makes its so disturbing.
DeleteI agree with your description of the prisoners and the description that Elizer gave in the book for these people, and kind of gruesome that you kind of have to stop and think that he was actually there and that must've been hard for him to recall every gruesome scene.
DeleteHey Sara,
DeleteFrom what I have heard to the whole book sounds to be very visual and intense. I think it would be something I would like and be able to stay engaged with so I am planning to read it for a choice book.
Hi Sara. I agree that the imagery in this book was disgusting and gave me chills. Elie used such good description that made it easy to imagine what he saw on the daily. I believe that his description helped show just how gruesome the holocaust truly was.
DeleteIn the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, he does an amazing job using detail for the readers to capture what the holocaust really looked like. one image that really stuck with me was when the Germans were hanging Jews for some dumb simple mistakes, but this one was different from the rest. At this live hanging there was two grown men and one little boy. The way Elie described it, he saw the ropes hanging around all three of the guys necks, and once they pulled the chair away the two grown men died instantly. but the poor little boy was too light so he had to hang and suffer, Elie had to walk past the little boy and he said he was still squirming trying to breathe. The second image that still sticks with me is Jews killing other Jews for food. When I imagined this since I just thought of the hunger games for some reason. These people forgot how to act and what was normal, they would just kill each other, just like the hunger games.
ReplyDeleteThis image really depicts the harshness of concentration camps. Jews, the most holy people, killing each other for food. The hanging of a small boy too light for his own weight to kill him. This sounds horrific and I am glad I didn't choose this book,
DeleteI totally forgot about that part in the book, but it was so true how detailed he made it. I could truly picture the boys face and it made me feel so bad for Elie and how the Germans specifically make each person look at the hanged mens faces.
DeleteThis sounds horrible, the way he described it made it worse as he said he walked by him as he was squirming to catch a breath. The worst part is he had to walk by them all and look at them but couldn't do anything it sounds terrifying.
DeleteHi Ella
DeleteI cannot even read this book because I remember reading the first part of this series I got the strongest vivid from the text that you cannot even imagine to feel there violence and torched with many more. You need to cold blooded or stone hearted to read this book because the way author puts together.
I agree, I think that the part when they were hanging the men in the book really stood out to me. It's horrible that they hung those men for no reason. If I would have witnessed that, I think that would be something that I would never be able to unsee in my mind.
DeleteI agree the hanging scene was definitely one of the more gruesome part of the book that stuck with me. The way he describes it all is just so disturbing.
DeleteWhen I read your blog Ella, I forgot this particular part in the book existed. But now as I recall it, this scene I would say is one of the many gruesome parts in the book.
DeleteI also agree that Elie used very good detail at this part of the book and it was kind of unsettling to read. He described every little detail like how the dead men were bluish and swollen and the poor little boy still had red on his tongue and his mouth was gaped wide mouth. The fact that everyone had to watch this little boy struggle for such a long time is truly traumatizing.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone the author describes the ocean in vivid detail. At first, the boys thought it was an airplane. Then they thought it was gunfire. After the noise became more constant, they went over a hill and they were suddenly at the ocean. He describes the endless blue skies, the crashing waves, and the vast amount of water. Another image is the boys' painful experience with the hot sand. They get kicked out of a village and their shoes are stolen. The author describes the sun as over 120 degrees and the sand searing on their feet. I know the feeling of hot sad and the best way to make it bearable is to dig your feet in and wait. They could not do this because there was no place to go.
ReplyDeleteHi Nick, I am sure the people in the book "Night" were going through the same thing because when they were first transported to the concentration camps the days in the train carts and camp field had to of been super hot.
DeleteHey Nick, this great detail surprises me, especially because your book is only about 120 pages. It looks like you author does a better job explaining the setting, while my author explains more about the feelings of charachters.
DeleteHi Nick!
DeleteIt sounds like you got a great idea of what the ocean looked like through the boys' eyes. One of my favorite things about this author is how well he is able to describe what the characters are seeing. I feel like I am watching a movie in my head. I also can't imagine walking in 120 degree sand!! That would be awful. I hope you enjoy the rest of your book.
Cade Messer
i think the sun and 120 degree was another one that detail kinda went far but wasnt to far cause it ended pretty quick when they came up to a hut and got there wounds tooken care of so i agree on this one also
DeleteHi Nick!
DeleteIt sounds like the author describes everything in your book in great detail. I think when the author describes everything in detail it makes it easier to read because you can actually envision it. Imagery is very important for creative reader because it paints them a picture of what it is supposed to look like.
Kaylee Schueller
Hey Nick,
DeleteThe part when you mentioned it felt like it was 120 degrees sounds intense. I could not imagine myself in that warm of weather. is this book based off a true story because it sounds like the author has experienced these moments in his life. Hope you are enjoying your book.
i agree Nick, Ishmeal does a great job of describing detail in everything he writes about. fro mthe ocean to the bloodshed in his country.
Deletehey Nick, I am reading the book "Night" and during my book the Elie has to give up his shoes to the Germans. Even though he keeps trying to hide that he still has his own shoes, they end up taking them from him.
DeleteI agree with you too the way he explain his experiences really helps me picture it, and makes it a lot more interesting than it is.
DeleteI feel like the way that the main character describes the pain or what he is thinking is able to be related to in these cases because we have felt hot sand under our feet we have heard the loud sounds of waves crashing if not it is easier to imagine it.
DeleteIn the book Night the author uses imagery many times to help enhance the readers understanding of the book. One of the images that I will always remember from reading this book is the picture that was drawn in my head when officers were throwing babies high up into the air to use them for target practice. Another time when an image was painted in my head is when the author described the dead people laying around the camp. He described them as being slouched over and looking like they were taking a long nap. Last but not least one of the worst scenes that I remember is when a young 10 or 11 year old boy was hung in the middle of the camp. The author stated that the young boy was going "in and out of death" and he also said his eyes were rolled back and tong hanging out. The Jews were forced to walk right by him. The way that the author was able to get these images in my head was by telling it just as he saw it. He did not sugar coat anything at all and just told it as it was which is why I think these pictures were so clear.
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Cade Messer
Hey Cade. It looks like your author does an excellent job describing the setting in your book. I think it is important for us to know these details, especially because we are not familiar with some of the places. All of our books seem to come from a different part in the world.
Deletehey Cade, by the way your book, Night, sounds, Its imagery is very vivid and probably difficult to read about sometimes. A Long Way Gone has a lot of similar imagery, as Ishmeal describes all f the bloody and traumatizing events that happened to him when he was 12.
DeleteHi cade, looks like the author of your book is great at describing in detail what is happening. i bet it makes it a lot easier to understand the book when you have a clear image of what is happening. glad you like the book!
DeleteHey Cade,
Deleteit seems that your book has some pretty vivid imagry of some very traumatizing. the images you describe definetly woulda have an effect on me as well.
In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns one of the scenes that I imagine are the conditions Mariam lives in and also Laila's home and family getting bombed. I can just see how people are living on the streets and the groups of people that walk through the street. Also, when Laila's house got bombed the author described it as what she saw flying through the air and how confused she was going in and out of consciousness. The author tells you about how the characters feel about the situation and he also used a lot of comparisons so we can connect it to our life's better. We are able to almost understand a lot about the environment from how the character feels and talks about it.
ReplyDeleteHey Amelia,
DeleteIt looks like you are enjoying your book! It sounds like the author is doing a great job of painting a picture in his readers head. I can't imagine getting bombed, that would be terrible to go in and out of consciousness. It kind of reminds me of the book I am reading right now. In Night, there are many people that are fighting for their lives in the concentration camps just like Laila was when she got hit by the bomb. Hopefully you enjoy the rest of your book!
Cade Messer
this sounds like a pretty suspenseful book and sound like an awesome book to read as you explained it in this little paragraph i think the author did a pretty good job throughly going into detail to make sure you knew what was happening in the book
DeleteI forgot about how well this part was described. The part where she said she saw something that looked like a chunk of her father flying through the air.....Yuck! But it really did help me picture what she was seeing with the amount of detail that was shared.
DeleteHi Ameila,
Deletei think the author does a really great job describing the detail in this book it makes it fun to imagine how it all went down in real life. it was almost scary how well i could picture this in my head. glad you are enjoying your book!
In the book Kite Runner, the author does a great job describing the scene in which Hassan is assaulted by Assef. This scene sticks out to me the most because it played out in my head like a movie. Especially when the author described him sticking his fist in his mouth so that he didn't scream in anger.
ReplyDeleteAnother way the author does an excellent job describing a scene was when Assef beats Amirs teeth in. I remember the author putting in the fact that Amir was swallowing blood and teeth, and that put a sick picture in my brain.
Sawyer
I agree the fight scene is what stuck out the most because of how good it was to read.
DeleteHey Sawyer,
DeleteI agree with that the author does a good job describing the scenes in this book. I can see the part where Amir was swallowing blood and teeth to and just kind of makes you get a sick feeling.
I agree with you, the author really makes us stop and think and imagine what the scene is trying to portray. it's really cool that he does this because it makes the book more enjoyable
DeleteThat sounds very vivid and it seems like it would bring you in more to read it becuase you can picture everything.
DeleteIn the book kite runner Amir is on a journey to save Hassans son so he can take him with him. When Amir arrives at the place he gets into a fight with his old neighbor that him and hassan used to shoot slingshots at. When Amir gets done fighting him he is all beat up and hassans son shoots Assef with a slingshot. That scene i could see the two men going back and forth at each other then Sohrab stepping in and finishing off Assef. I was really into this scene because of how intense it was, and it was also easy to image in my head too.
ReplyDeleteHey Colin,
DeleteI can see this scene happening in my head too. I feel like the author used good detail to make it really come to life for us to be able to see it. Hope you're liking the book.
Hey Colin,
DeleteThis scene is very interesting and the way it seems to be described makes it easy for me to understand. Amir sounds like a fighter type of person. The author describes that well in the book.
Hey Colin, I feel like that was probably the best played part of the whole story. It had great build up and the fight seemed very real. It was very misleading to because I never knew what was going to happen.
DeleteIm reading a long way gone and i think the author painted a very graphic picture in my head and he did this by using exesive detail on what was happening like when the main character saw the body and the guys guts was spilling out that still haunts me. i didnt like that part of the book the only part that i could handle is when he ran through the forest and explained what was happening while setting up a sleeping area or the pond or lake or when runing from pigs and had to climb a tree.
ReplyDeleteHey Eric, this part of the book seems like he is going through a very tough time. It sounds like the character has to go through a lot to get where he is now in life. I hope you enjoy the rest of your book.
DeleteIn "I am Malala", the author paints many pictures that are very vivid. The first one, probably the most clear, is when she got shot on the bus. The author explains that scene in very great detail, which is why it is so clear. She explains how the two men look, what they say, how they act, and she explains the exact moment of when she got shot. Another moment that I can picture very well is when she explains how girls cannot go out unless they have a male relative with them. I can just picture whenever you see any girl, there is always a male with them. The author would continue to bring this point up, which is why I think I can picture it so well.
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DeleteI am reading the book a thousand splendid suns and my book also talks about how they cannot go anywhere without a male. My author also brings it up a lot but the part that really helped me visualize it is when they tried to run away on a bus with no male and got caught by the cops. I could not imagine living a life like that.
DeleteI am also reading this book and I agree. The author is very detailed in the book, but it is because she lived it. I like that it is very detailed it helps understand what is going on.
DeleteHi Kaylee,
DeleteI am also reading I am Malala, I agree that the scene when she got shot was the most vivid. I think this scene was so vivid because she lived through it and it is plastered in her mind and is easy to remember. I liked that this part was so descriptive because it was very clear of everyone's emotions.
In the book "The Kite Runner" the author does a good job with using strong word to make the scene come to life. In the part where Rahim Khan describes the scene where Hassan moves into their old house to help Khan because he has become ill and cannot function on his own so Hassan helps him with everything around the house. But when someone found that Hassan was living there, they wanted him out but he was not having it so the person took him outside and shot him and then Hassans wife too. I could really see this scene because of the description from the author on what was all happening. Another one was when the General would get sick and go stay in his room for weeks until he would come back to everyone. The author described how he looked once he came out of the room.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you the author uses very good word choice to make the scene really happen in your head it kept me more engaged
DeleteHi Dylan, I completely agree with you reading this part of the book almost felt like i was watching it since he described it so well. The part about the general could also be hard to understand but he describes that perfectly and makes it very simple.
DeleteI agree with you this scene is really vivid and can see 2 dead bodies just laying there on the ground. This part is described really well and tells you what happened when Amir was away.
DeleteIn the book a Thousand Splendid Suns, the author does a great job describing different scenes to the reader. One of the scenes was when Leila and Mariam got brought back to the house after trying to escape from Rasheed. Rasheed was very abusive and it was described in the book and easy to visualize. It says, "One moment she was talking and the next she was on all fours, wide eyed and red faced, trying to draw a breath." This quote show how brutal the beating was from Rasheed. A punch from Rasheed knocked her right off her feet. Another moment that was significant was when Leila's water broke. Leila was in serious pain. it says, "Leila let out a cry and rolled on her side. her fingers closed against Mariams." I could really imagine how much pain she was in. Also the authors words made it feel like i was there.
ReplyDeleteHey Jayden, I also read A Thousand Splendid Suns and this part of the book was very good about explain what their household is like. I agree Hosseini makes you feel like you are there watching it like a movie almost.
DeleteHello Jayden, I am also reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and I also felt like I was in the house when that all went down. I really hate Rasheed and he is a horrible guy. The whole scene when he was beating them really broke my heart. - Maci Steffen
DeleteHey Jayden, A Thousands Splendid Suns I have heard about this book so many times. But I have read reviews and summary about this book the Rasheed is the bad character in the book just like some guys in my book too when start taking drugs and starts accusing violence for revenge so last but not least I would agree that this book has really strong visual just my book too.
DeleteI am reading I am Malala and an image that sticks out to me the most is simply the streets. I imagine them to be gravel surrounded my houses and shops. This image sticks out to me because many things happen on the streets when the Taliban is trying to take control. People would get whipped, injured, or killed. Also, since the women are not allowed to leave without a male relative makes the streets seem like a dangerous place. I think the author did an excellent job explaining the world around her because she lived through this traumatic experience.
ReplyDeleteHi Alyssa,
DeleteThis sounds like a really interesting book with a lot of imagery. I can't imagine what living in this kind of environment would be like. Not only on the outside and what you see but also what you have to go through emotionally and the traumatic experiences nearly every woman in that culture has to manage.
I am reading the same book and thought the same thing how the streets seem dangerous. Especially how the Taliban will taunt girls that want to go to school.
DeleteIn the book I am reading, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, I see a lot of imagery in many specific scenes. But if I had to choose two it would be when Mariam found her mother dead and when Laila's house was bombed. Both of these scenes are very climactic and go into quite a bit of detail for the reader. In her mothers death, the emotion Mariam felt when she saw Nana was quite intense and you could almost feel the agony she must have been going through. Then when Laila's house/neighborhood was bombed, the author uses a lot of imagery in which we can visualize what she may have been going through mentally. In and out of consciousness, very confused, etc. Almost like something out of a movie.
ReplyDeleteHi Eve I am also reading a Thousand Splendid Suns and I felt the same way when Laila's house got bombed. I also felt like I was in a movie. It seems like you are also enjoying the book, I am as well!- Maci Steffen
DeleteHi eve, i am also reading this book and i feel the same way i think the author does a great job of explaining things so people can almost live in the moment. I can also agree with you when you say its almost like something out of a movie.
DeleteYes In my book Kite runner, the author talks about how his town of Kabul has many amazing smells from its markets and the taste of naan in the air. The author explained it so well that my mouth watered. Later the author came back to his childhood home and described it in vivid detail. In his childhhood he would climb up a hill to sit under a tree with ease, but now he can barely make it with ragged breath. This shows that amir is not the child that he used to be.
ReplyDeleteHi Cade, I never thought about that but now that you say it I understand what your talking about when you say the amazing smells. I would love to know what that smells like.
DeleteI am reading the book A Thousand Splendid Suns and one image that really plays well in my head is when Laila's house was bombed. This scene is so intense and there is so much going on but the author explains it in such detail that it makes me feel like I am actually in the situation. - Maci Steffen
ReplyDeletein my book, kite runner the author also explains the scene when hassan got raped so well that you can imagine it in your head. this makes the book so much easier to read and enjoyable
DeleteHi Maci,
DeleteI also agree with you on what you pointed out with imagery. This was a very climactic event and the book gave some pretty good description of what went on. I couldn't imagine having to go through this especially at such a young age.
i am reading the same book and i agree with you i feel like the author had a lot of detail that really help feel like you were there when he was talking about the bombing.
DeleteIn the book, A Long Way Gone, Ishmeal paints the barren and dry landscape, as wel las areas that had lots of trees and rivers and creeks. These pictures that Ishmeal paints in your head helps you see the lands beauty, and then see the war torn country change it. Ishmeal also creates brutal images of how aggressive and how heartless the rebel groups are. The rebels often take prisoners as either recruitments, messengers with burn and cut marks, or, they just gun everyone down. Ishmeal creates images of peoples skin and bones being ripped apart by the powerful semi automatic weapons that the rebels use.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you because when I'm reading I can imagine myself there with them and see exactly what they are seeing because he does such an amazing job describing every detail.
DeleteI completely agree with you William because I'm reading this book to and it gets very descriptive at times.
DeleteI agree the author creates very gory images when he describes dead bodies and people who are injured.
DeleteIn the book The Kite Runner the author Khaled Hosseini does a great job describing many events in this book. The event that sticks out to me is when Amir's wife Soraya takes care of Baba while he is sick. I like how he describes what symptoms Baba was having and how Soraya would give him his pain meds and help him do basic everyday tasks. another part that he describes is when Hassan was getting assaulted and Amir just sat there and watched. it was very easy to picture what was happening and what both Amir and Hassan were thinking.
ReplyDeleteI agree that I enjoyed how the author described Soraya taking care of Baba when he was sick. You don't get a chance to see how Baba and Soraya interacted except when Baba was sick.
DeleteI am reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel and their is definitely some images that stick in my head. One of the more obvious ones being the prisoners in the camps. They must look awful after they only get a small portion of food and their living conditions were awful. Another image that is stuck in my head is the barracks that the prisoners lived in. It seems the Jews were shoved in there and didn't have much space, not just that but the barracks had to be nasty and full of mud and snow.
ReplyDeleteAnd in those tight spaces, they were sometimes fighting, dying, etc. Beware claustrophobes!
DeleteHey Sam, that would also stick in my head it must of sucked being crowed in those rooms with little food to survive.
DeleteI agree, I think that with the detail he provides us, the men must look terrible because they only get a small portion of food and they get beat up all of the time. Their living conditions are terrible and they way they lived was awful and it stuck in my head as it was describing what everything looked like. Overall, the Jews had it rough and their bodies were transformed for the worse.
DeleteI am reading the book a thousand splendid suns and the first image I see when I think of this book is Jalil's house. I imagine this big white house with big windows, doors and pillars. also a big loop around driveway with a water fountain in the middle. with stairs of course considering Mariam cried on them at one point in the book. with many rooms and windows covering each wall of the house. I imagine it looking like this because of the way Jalil was described; so rich, clean and fancy. Next I see Rasheed's house. I see a two story house almost opposite of Jalil's. Tall and narrow, dingy, and old. Rasheed owns a shoe story for a living and he is a massive old stinky guy so that doesn't really lead me to believe he is living in luxury. these two people are on 2 different sides of the social spectrum.
ReplyDeleteIn A long Way Gone when they explain the images of what there seeing when they walk through the villages and towns and see what has happened to the people who live there makes the book feel more serious in what is really happening, because we see/hear this type of stuff in the news and it seems disturbing then but reading it from someone who was there just makes it a whole lot more disturbing then it already is.
ReplyDeleteone major feature of imagry in the book "a Long Way Gone" would have to be the moment that Ishmael sees his two friends shot and killed before his eyes. ITS DESCRIBED TO A POINT THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO INVISION THE EXACT MOMENT HE SEES IT HAPPEN. ANOTHER VERY STRONG FOCAL POINT OF IMAGERY WOULD BE WHEN ISHAMEL AND HIS GROUP SEES A MAN BURNED IN THE CENTER OF A VILLAGE.
ReplyDeleteChase,
DeleteI completely agree with you, the way Ishmael describes everything he see's makes us realize what's really going on in there lives.
I agree with you because Ishmael does such a good job describing the events he witnessed that I can perfectly imagine what he is seeing.
DeleteAre you enjoying the way the author describes these events? I feel like it would be hard to read about people burning and dying constantly.
Deletein the book a thousand splendid suns i could imagine seeing Rasheed beating up Mariam when they kept losing there babies. I feel like the words the author used to describe this just made it feel like you were they watching Mariam get beat up. the author does a good job explaining the setting as well as using detail to explain what going on it the book.
ReplyDeleteI am reading this book as well, i agree with the point that he gives a lot of detail in all the parts of the book. Like this part or any of the parts with rasheed in it. I remember the part where mariam killed him and it described the scene pretty well.
DeleteIn the book a long way gone I could vividly imagine every time the author described when someone was shot or when one of they boys stabbed one of the rebels. the one that stuck out the most was when Ishmael and the group of boys saw that imam get burned alive by a group of rebels because he didn't give up where all the villagers were hiding. the author did a good job describing what the boys saw and how they felt when they saw the burned body.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the book "Night", and, well... detail you say? There's a lot of it. However, there's not so much I don't say, "Yeah, yeah, I get it!". I enjoy the fact it's not too little, but also not too much.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. I think that the author in this book does a good job of using imagery to have readers be able to envision what everything looked like during the time. He doesn't go deep into detail, but he utilizes all of this words to make sure they are appropriate to give readers a vivid image in their head. The first image that has been captured through my mind when reading was when Elie was describing how the young boy was still alive when he was being hung. " He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished (pg. 65). He used few to little words but the words he used made it sound as brutal as it really was. The second image that has been captured through my mind was when they were throwing the babies into the fire and the smoke and how Elie said he will never forget any of it. "Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky (Pg. 34). In those words he is creating imagery and showing how it is impacted Elie and how he will never forget those things that he witnessed. He accomplished all of this by using little but impactful words. Overall, the author has a different way of performing imagery but he performs it in a way for reader to be able to easily understand.
ReplyDeleteIn the book I am Malala, the author paints multiple pictures in my mind. The main picture is how Malala got shot, how the Taliban men were asking who Malala was and I could see the fear on the girls faces through the details Malala used. Another vivid picture in my mind is how poor Pakistan is, run down buildings and no running water when you want it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that she likes to emphasize the condition of her country and moments with the Taliban. I also thought the scene where she was shot was the biggest instance of imagery.
DeleteIm reading the book "Night" and the image you decribed is similar to my book as well. In my book the author also does a good job sharing people fear in what they see.
DeleteHI Kate,
DeleteI am also reading this book and I think that the things you said are portrayed so heavily that you can see and feel the emotions the women have in their country. I agree that the setting is very vivid I always imagined it as a run down place and empty streets besides the Taliban on the streets.
In the book the Kite Runner, the author does a good job describing the scene in which Hassan got assaulted by assef. This sticks in my head the most because it played out in my head like I was right there watching. I have seen my fair share of fights and he describes it well when he stuck his fist in his mouth to stop the screaming. He described a good old fashioned beatdown. It just sticks in my brain and made me want to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteIn the book A long way gone there is many vivid details that go on. One of the times Ishmael explained when they were told they have to join the army i could picture the fear in their faces as they were forced in at 12 years old. I can also remember the time when they got into a shootout with the rebels and they way he was describing the gunfire and bodies dropping i could just picture it very easily and it made it more interesting
ReplyDeletesounds like a lot to think and read about but hope you are liking you book.
Deletein the book a thousand splendid suns, i could picture rasheed getting angry at mariam when she was having all these miscarriages. also a little later in the book i could picture imagery with this quote, "But her mind was far away free and fleet hurdling like a speeding missile beyond Kabul, over craggy brown hills, and over deserts ragged with clump of sage" this gives a pretty clear image of what is going on in the book and the author does a really good job expressing it.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same book and I agree he makes those parts very clear. I also think when Mariams mom committed suicide he made that a clear image.
DeleteThis book sounds very emotional and deep so imagery is probably very important to the story. My book is very scary and emotional too so the imagery is interesting to say the least.
DeleteIn the book A Long way Gone by Ishmael Beah this book have gave me so many visuals and graphics after they return from the village and they see dead bodies on the road that got me chills because I have watched lots movies about wars and situation like this that are describe by the author. I just know that the author accomplishes to get out vivid and very graphic imagery by just describing the plot. Ishmael(author)"smiles a little to his friends" reactions, and this sets the stage for sharing his story. So yes he have accomplish this task of making us realize that when is even telling the story he had to put the fake smile on because of how bad the situation he and his went through.
ReplyDeleteI am reading "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini and I think the author does a good job of using imagery to describe places. Baba and Amir have moved a few different times throughout the book and I have a good image in my mind of each. Amir's house is described as a large brick building with lots of yard space and trees everywhere. The author wrote, "Everyone agreed my father, my Baba, had built the most beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Khan District." This made it easy to have a vivid picture of their house in my mind. Secondly, because of the way Hosseini described Hassan, I think he is the easiest character to imagine. He is described by having "a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire." I am able to picture Hassan most vividly. Finally, I have an image in my mind of the kite flying tournament. I am easily able to picture Amir flying the kite and Hassan getting ready to run it down. Hosseini described the kite tournament saying, "they fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighborhoods below with prizes for the kite runners."
ReplyDeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone it describes many things in detail including when they have their hands tied and having their chests as tight as drums. The one that I remember the most is when the boys thought they heard gun shots and airplanes around but as soon as they walked over a hill they could see the Atlantic ocean. Then another one was when they were describing how hot the sand was on their feet saying that it felt like it was 120 degrees and they talked about them peeling it off their feet I feel like I can relate to this one but I can not relate to peeling off the bottom of my feet.
ReplyDeleteI agree because i am also reading this book. When that stuffed happened he used as much detail as he needed to give us the idea but didn't feel the need to try and over do it.
DeleteI am Reading the book I Am Malala. most of the time when Malala uses imagery its when she is talking about stuff relating to the school, or bad things the Taliban has done. she uses imagery in these parts to express the strong emotions that she holds. when talking about school, it is common for her to explain a small detail that isn't very important, but the fact that she notices it ad decides to share it really helps the reader know her stance. Other wise I don't feel like there is an excessive amount of imagery, or at least more than what you would expect from a book that is supposed to raise awareness or move people.
ReplyDeleteNolan I agree and do not really like that in most parts of the book I cant really imagine what is going on its hard to get into and follow
DeleteI am reading Night and all the images in my head are very descriptive like how the prisoners would walk by this kid getting hung and he was to light so it was a long painful death. I cant even imagine walking past that everyday and seeing a little kid just hanging there slowly dying. Another image I have is the cattle cars when they are traveling and have so many people in there that they cant move people are laying on top of each other and they wont get feed for how ever long they are traveling.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would be able to live with myself if i had to go through these events and it kind of sucked that he had to go through those events and be able to live with it.
DeleteThe part with the kid getting hung was probably one of the most detailed parts of the book which makes it more heartbreaking. I can't imagine how i would be if i jad to witness this stuff first hand
DeleteI am reading Night and Elie really does a great job of putting what he experienced into words. You can just imagine the awful conditions and the cruelty that he goes through. Even at the end of the book when he refers to himself as a living corpse you can just imagine how he looks and all the awful things he has seen and gone through his life. He puts a great image in your mind about what the Jews had to go through.
ReplyDeletethats good that your book is giving you good Imagery my book as awful conditions too and it sucks to see these young kids get tortured and in poverty
DeleteI 100% agree with you and that's what i like about Elie, he's able to kind of put you there and making seem like you were there to experience these events but really he just being really descriptive about what he had to go through.
DeleteIn my book the author also makes the imagery of trauma events very pictured. The author is good at explaining and making you have an image of everything.
DeleteI am reading this book as well and I agree with you on how i couldn't imagine walking past the bodies everyday and seeing them.
DeleteI agree with you all the way you can imagine everything elie goes through.
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ReplyDeletethere isn't a bunch of imagery in my book as far as I am now but there is someone when she talks about the Taliban and when she explains about her school when she talks about her school I can really see it sometimes she even gets some of my other senses including smell when she talks about the bad smell around the school it seems so real that I feel I can really smell it. I think Malala dose this to spread the thought and awareness of the bad stuff and poverty in the country of Pakistan and her village
ReplyDeleteI agree there wasn't much direct imagery but I felt the same way reading the book
DeleteIn book night, Elie describes everything with a lot of details and its very easy to capture what he is saying. When he described the cattle car, it was so descriptive, it was like you were in the cattle car with them and you can smell the odor of that cattle car and capture the image of people beating the women in the cattle car because she would be quiet. when he described the kid that was hanged and he was just slowly dying because he wasn't heavy enough and you can see that image in your head and when he describes the crematory, its like you can hear the kids crying while they being burned alive.
ReplyDeleteI am also reading Night and i 100% agree with what you saying about the cattle car and you can smell of the oder of the cattle car.
DeleteIn my book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" imagery is showed a lot, one of the main things they showed imagery in is when Mariams mom committed suicide. He did it by making it a dramatic scene. He made it short and sweet by telling what happened. It was very visible because he used descriptive words. Another scene that showed imagery is when Lailas mother went into depression from the lost of her sons. The author made it visible by telling how Laila helped her mother and made sure she was okay. He also told what happened before, during, and after she got depressed.
ReplyDeleteI am reading this book too and i agree that he is good at giving detail in order to picture the scene in your head.
DeleteIn my book "Night" two things I can recall from the book is one the crematoria, and two the screaming woman. The Crematoria is described as a Smoking chimney, and ashes that smell like burnt flesh. But with the Crematoria comes the screaming women which ties into the Crematoria. This women will not stop screaming about the burning flames that she is constantly seeing but is knocked out because she is being transported with Eliezer and a bunch of other Jews to a concentration camp. Elizer describes this women as a chaotic women. A women who is not right in the head and has lost all sense of humanity. With these women's screams, she is later knocked out for everyone's else sanity to sleep. With these certain parts in the true story of "Night", are very dark and satanic to the Jewish peoples eyes.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and the part i could picture was when laila went into her mothers room to wake her up and give her food. How he said that the room was so dark and that she just peeled back the layers of blankets off of her mom, i imagined that scene like she was an orange almost. How you peel off the layers on an orange to get to the inside, Laila had to peel off the blankets to get to her mom.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Night" and Elie throughout the book uses many forms of imagery. These images are very vivid in my mind because the author uses strong word choice and paints a very clear image. There are very horrific, and disgusting image that are showcased. One image that was captured in my mind was when the babies were being thrown up in the air and used as targets for shooting. Another image that was very horrible was the description of the other people there. From being starved to death, Elie shares how skinny the people were as well as how bad they were beaten up.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Night and Elie said in the beginning of the book he said. "They use baby's as target practice and would throw them in the air and shoot them with machine guns in the air.'" Reading that made my stomach just twist and turn so much that is so unhuman and how people would be capable to be able to do that and follow orders to do that is so sickening.
ReplyDeleteI am feeling the same way that the people doing this had to be messed up in the head.
DeleteI am reading the book Night and some of the images that stuck out to me was when the people were being hung like the little boy when he wasn't heavy enough to die fast. Another part that stuck out to me was at the start when they was throwing the babys in the fire and how Elie described it. Any time the author would talk about these terrible things he would not spend alot of time on it but would definetly paint a strong image in your head.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Night, Elie paints clear pictures of what is going on by being very blunt. He says exactly what he sees, which makes it easy to see what's going on. When Elie first arrives at the concentration camps he describes the smell of burning flesh just as it is, by saying it smelt like burning flesh. He also describes when the Nazis are throwing babies in the air and shooting them. It's not the most detailed stuff but it's blunt enough to know what's going on.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "The Kite Runner" and nearing the end of the story. Since the book is through Amir's point of view, I see a lot of imagery from him. Earlier in the book when Amir was younger I did not see much imagery but as he has gotten older he explains the details a lot more so I get a better visual. I think this comes with one of the main themes, coming of age. I can see how much he has developed as a character because when he was a child back in Afghanistan, Amir just went with the flow. When he was in high school and college however he becomes more descriptive so I could paint a better picture in my head.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like he used the same amount of detail that Ishmael used when he first started the book ad how it progressed as he had to change his personality to survive.
DeleteI can really visualize eveything you are saying.
DeleteI am reading the book "A Long Way Gone" and through out the whole book Ishmael shared a lot of details about the things he had been through. He would describe the harsh and brutal things that had been done too him and the things he had to do making it very easy to picture them in my head. A lot of the things in this book were very disturbing because of how much he put them into detail. He also showed how he had changed as a person from the beginning of the book where he was just a kid doing things he had to do, then in the middle how he had to be more aggressive and fight/kill to stay alive making him a completely different person.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "Night" and Elie uses such good description throughout the whole book. Everything he describes is easily imagined and really helps put the holocaust into perspective. One imagine that really stuck with me through this book was right at the beginning when they were using babies as targets for their guns and tossing babies into the crematorium. This was extremely sad because babies are so fragile and have no way to defend themselves. Another imagine that stuck with me was the way he described his dad as he was so close to death. The way he described him being pale with bluish cracked lips and hunched over with glossy eyes made it sound very similar to a corpse. These imagines were very disturbing to read and imagine.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book "A Long Way Gone" and there are some very descriptive moments in the book. There is this one scene where a village they are at gets attacked and they are describing the dead bodies and how you could see their jaw bones. Another time is when is when they were walking out in the sun barefoot. Ishmael was able to peel the skin off of his feet.
ReplyDeleteI am reading I am Malala and the first thing for an example of imagery that I can think of is all the destruction that the Taliban have done to the hometown to Malala and I can just see all the schools that are blown down and into ruble and everything is a mess. I cant imagine coming back and seeing that your whole town is demolished. Another thing I could visualize well is the destruction of Swat after the earthquake. It's very shocking
ReplyDeleteI am reading I am Malala and the first thing for an example of imagery that I can think of is all the destruction that the Taliban have done to the hometown to Malala and I can just see all the schools that are blown down and into ruble and everything is a mess. I cant imagine coming back and seeing that your whole town is demolished. Another thing I could visualize well is the destruction of Swat after the earthquake. It's very shocking
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