For the past two weeks we have been working on writing with
descriptive rich detail. The Worn Path,
by Eudora Welty read the way I envisioned a perfect assignment. The opening
detail was so vivid and rich in detail I could feel myself in the scene
watching Phoenix Jackson. The time taken and the careful word choice in describing
her made her character really come to life.
“Her eyes were blue with
age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as
though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead.” http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/ew_path.html
It would have been so simple to say that she was old, she
was covered in wrinkles, but the descriptions alone tell a completely separate story.
The descriptive word choice was powerful and evocative, it made the story stand
out to me with a real image, as though I was flipping through pictures with the
pages.
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