Blog Response #6
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.
I am reading a Thousand Splendid Suns, and there are quite a few images that the author described very well. One of them being when Mariam made him rice with his dinner, and it wasn't quite cooked, and he was so mad from previous things that this pushed him over the edge. He went outside, grabbed rocks, and forced her to chew the rocks. It sounded so painful for her, i wonder how bad her teeth hurt. Another thing that the author described well was more towards the beginning, when he was describing the Kolba, and lake Where Mariam lived. I could almost imagine exactly what it looked like. With both scenes, the words the author used made it feel like i was actually there witnessing it all happen.
ReplyDeleteThat is almost the same for us by how woman was forced to be abused because of something that they did that was not meant to harm anyone.
DeleteI agree the women are miss treated in other countries. In our story women were beat because they stepped out side with a male that was not their husband. They were also judged on how they dressed and if they were educated or not.
DeleteI agree with you when Mariam made the rice and him chewing on then but they are nothing like eating rocks.
DeleteI agree that it was so sad when Rasheed made Mariam eat the rice
DeleteI agree with that first scene as well. When they described how he forced her to chew pebbles, I cringed.
DeleteI am reading I am Malala. Two images that were descried to me was when she described when the Taliban had beaten a woman for walking out of her house without her husband but with a different man. How she described her screams as that cracked the whip at her. How they told people to hold her down, her begging for help and forgiveness. Another one was when Malalas dads school was used for a hide out for the army. How there was candy wrappers and bullet holes in the wall. Cigar stubs around and chairs had been upended. These images are so vivid because of her choice of words and how she described it. Especially since both scenes were very important because since she remembered them they must of had an impact on her.
ReplyDeleteI also chose the school house as a vivid image. The school house meant a lot to malala and is an important part in the story. It would be upsetting to come back to one of your favorite places and see it destroyed.
DeleteIn a thousand splendid suns the also don't allow women out of the house. The made new laws during the war that prevented women from doing a lot of things.
DeleteI know we are not reading the same book, but the Taliban have also appeared in my book. Some female characters in my book have also been beaten out on the street because they were not with men, it is so sad.
DeleteI also read I Am Malala. I think she did a good job on describing this scenes while reading. It helped me better understand and get a good image what was happening while reading.
DeleteThis book is quite like my book how woman can't leave there house or go out in public without their husband or they will get beat.
Deletei am reading the kite runner and the book talks about how violent the Taliban are and I am Malala seems to depict that very well.
DeleteI am reading I am Malala. One of the images Malala has described was how the taliban looked. With their long unruly beards, all black clothes and very foreign looking versus the Swat people. Other thing that Malala described was the state of Malala's dads school when they came back to live in Swat. How there was a dead animal corpse under a sign, how bad it smelt, the spray paint on the walls and bullets on the floor. These images are vivid because they are so different from what we witness here. We don't have people with burqa's and war.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same book and i agree that the school scene was very important and described well by her so i used this one as well.
DeleteIn a thousand splendid suns, the war is also going on, and most things are getting blown up and destroyed also.
DeleteI am reading a thousand splendid suns and everyone is going to war and taking over. And all of the body's laying in there street and houses being destroyed.
DeleteI also read I Am Malala. I agree with this these images really helped me understand the book and set the scene.
DeleteI agree with how they describe the Taliban and how the words being vivid helped us picture what her world looked like.
DeleteThe Frist image that I captured in my mind is when Tariq got blew up in the van and was in the hospital. I see him laying in the bed with both of his legs gone. Half of his face is really burnt and having things sticking out of his mouth. I see his body still and not really moving and his chest going up and down really slow like he is going to pass. I see his eyes barley open but he is trying to keep them open. The second image is when Mariam went to go see her father and he was not home. They would let her in, and I can see her sitting on dirt road and having dust all over her. I see her back sitting on a huge gate. Her half sister bring her food and people walking past her. I can see her face just laying in the sand. I say these because they really stuck out to me, and the Tariq was really sad.
ReplyDeleteWhen Tariq was blew up in the van that was another thing that really stuck in my head as well. I just keep thinking how sad Laila was going to be.
DeleteThe first image i saw in my head was when he had to run with his injured foot i could just picture him sad faced tired and limping. This image was so vivid to me because i could not imagine doing that but for Elie it was his life or death situation. Another image was when they said they got up from the camp and there was so many dead corpse laying around covered by snow. I just picture scrawny men half covered with snow and Elie trying to get around them because there was so many. One of the last images i still think about is how the Germans made the other Jews watch there fellow Jews get hung. That image will be stuck in my head because imaging seeing your friend who lasted through most of the camp with you get hung and suffer by a rope. The author made all these images very rememberable to me by the way he explained them in specific detail.
ReplyDeleteI agree but it was hard to imagine because some parts were so gruesome.
DeleteThe image of corpses pilled all around is very similar to the Rebel's decision with body disposal in A Long Way Gone, bodies of slaughtered civilians are just left to rot in villages and everywhere in between.
Deletethis book did a very good job with using imagery and getting the reader to see what was going on
DeleteI am reading A Thousands Splendid Suns this book has captured many images in my mind. One of the ones that has stuck with me throughout the book was at the end of part one Mariam made Rasheed rice for supper but it was not good enough for him. He go very anger and push the boil of rice away. Mariam asked him what was wrong but Rasheed did not answer he got up went outside and came back with a handful of rocks. Rasheed opened Mariam mouth and shoved them in. Rasheed stood there and watch as she chewed in the rocks. I can not even image how damaged her teeth were after that and how much pain she was in. This image was so clear in my mind because the author but so much detail into his writing.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree Natalie! I was cringing when I read this part of the story because I could not even fathom that pain Rasheed put Mariam through.
DeleteThe rice scene was hard to read. I could imagine the anger on his face as he got up. It scared me for what else Mariam may have to face later on.
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DeleteI agree Natalie it was very hard to read some of these parts based off how explicit the author was.
DeleteI am reading the book Night the first image I seen was when they were called out of their house and put onto the streets to take roll call. I could imagine all these people lined up and the kids were whining because they were hot and wanted water. The second image I could see was when the Jews were doing as walk through and some of the Jews had hung themselves, I could imagine their faces because the author described them very well. When a little boy have hung himself his body did not weigh enough so he was squirming, and struggled to die. These images were so vivid because the author said when they hung themselves their tongue were blue and their eyes looked like they wanted to come out of the head. In both parts it was like I was there with them and witnessing everything they were.
ReplyDeleteI agree Elie depicts very well what happened in those camps and how they were senselessly lambs to the slaughter
Deletei agree to the Germans they were nothing more than numbers, numbers that they had been ordered to kill and make agonizing pain it was a horrible time it shall never repeat itself the world will make sure of that I can't even imagine being there.
Deletei agree the germans had all the power and ordered all the killing
DeleteThroughout reading A Long Way Gone, two images are made very clear by the author, Carnage and loss. The instance of loss was when Matru Jong was attacked by Rebel forces. As a twelve year old, Ishmael witnessed families break apart, loved ones dying, or even losing those he loved and never saw again. At the end of that night, he couldnt even bear to cry, as what he witnessed was something to tragic to bear. The instance of carnage was when Ishmael and a small group of children found a village they believed held their parents and families safe. Unknown to them, the rebel forces pushed into the village and slaughtered each and every person. Not just the men, but the women and children too. They needed nobody alive in order to propel their war effort. After they ransacked every building and home, they torched it too the ground.
ReplyDeleteThese images are vivid because they describe the horrors of war, and that the conflict isnt always a series of battles, but a massacre of the innocent and helpless.
I agree as well the parts were innocent people getting killed and tortured are very hard to read. It was very hard for Ishmael as well especially, because he was the one who witnessed it at a very young age.
Deleteit is very scary when people are shooting at you and killing you for no reason
DeleteIt has to be terrifying to witness that and then be slaughtered yourself.
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Like I said in the first blog I really enjoy reading about peoples perspectives and experiences in the holocaust and I think that the book Night has got my satisfaction. I like how the narrator or Elie talks about what his thoughts were in fine detail to make me feel like I’m feeling what he is feeling. This is a great book and I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in these types of stories as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree he does a excellent job projecting extreme emotion into his writing of his experiences
Deletei agree with both of you elie explains in great detail so we are able to visaulize what pain and torture they have gone through
Deletei also enjoyed this book, he explained everything very well.
Deletei also enjoyed the book and the prespective
DeleteYes, i agree, thats what makes this book what it is. the authors use of imagery in extreme detail allows him to tell his story
DeleteIn the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author does a great job of painting a picture through his words. One of the things I often think about is how Laila looks. I picture her to be around 5'4 with long blonde hair, a really great personality, and someone who always looked ready to go. After reading more about her, I found some of those things to be true. Another person who I have thought about how they look is Tariq. I think Tariq is a slim man, around 6'0, with shaggy dirty blonde hair. I picture him to have a long leg and short torso. The third character who I often envision the looks of is Rasheed. I think this disgusting old man has salt and pepper hair, a big gap between his teeth, and dirt under his nails. His actions lead me to think this.
ReplyDeleteI think your description of Rasheed is spot on. Reading about him and the terrible things he does make me mad.
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DeleteI imagine the characters almost the same way except Rasheed is a look taller in my mind.
DeleteI also feel like the author did a great job in painting pictures in my head. Rasheed is envisioned the same way in my mind.
DeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. The author has great use of imagery, especially when describing the streets of Kabul. He describes the dirt roads, filled with people going to and from shops or their homes. Another image that stuck out to me was the night Mariam slept outside Jalil's house. I could picture her on the stairs at the foot of the door, looking at the windows of his large home. The last image that sticks out to me was of Laila's father Babi. The author did a great job of describing him and did not leave much to the imagination. A slender man with glasses, dark hair, and a large nose. The author accomplishes imagery by having great description.
ReplyDeleteI agree, i think the author does a fantastic job at describing things in the book and made it easy to understand things
DeleteI am reading Night the first image at the beginning of the book when the Jewish men, women, and children were digging a ditch in hopes to save their lives from anti Semitic attacks. By the now fully in control Nazis to just be shot where stood, they have literally dug their own graves. The second image is the first arrival of Auschwitz Elie sees such a horrific display of tossing infants in the air just to shoot at the infants. The third image is the Death marches where they force to run in a long column to the next Concertation camp for long hours at a time they fail they were shot and left in the snow and Elie describes that scene of what he was feeling that entire time. These images that Elie describes stand out from how horrifically unique it was from just work, selection, death repeat that he depicts in the book.
ReplyDeleteI can agree that the beginning images that form in our heads were a surprising and tragic moment.
DeleteI am amazed that something so incomprehensibly terrifying was allowed to happen in human history, i dont think any image we form in our heads could be horrifying enough to do it justice.
DeleteIt’s crazy to think that this actually happened
DeleteI am reading the book I Am Malala. Malala has described many images. One of them being the Taliban how they looked. She described them as having long beards, as well as dressed in all black clothing. Another thing Malala also described was the houses she said she lived in a shabby shack with two rooms.. She had to sleep with her mother and father and there was no bathroom, or kitchen. These images are vivid because of how different life is there than here. We don't see people like that and especially like that for war. As well as most houses here have both bathrooms and kitchens.
ReplyDeleteI'm also reading this book and I agree that the images are so vivid because she wants us to know how different her life is there then what we have to deal with.
Deletei am reading the book night and the first imagery of the most powerful examples of imagery in my book is the brutal execution of a young boy by SS guards. The boy, a Dutch Oberkapo's pipel, is hanged for being involved in sabotage against the Germans. The execution is long, slow, and agonizing, causing immense suffering to the young boy. another strong image stuck in my head is when they were on a train and they had had no bread for a few days so they were hungery and when they pulled into town of germans threw crusts of bread into the cattle cars the men then started to fight violently which left people dead that will always be stuck in my head
ReplyDeletei agree with the first part about seeing the flames and it was sad about elies father.
ReplyDeletei am reading the book night i imagen the exucution of so many jews and when they do it in public i cant imagagen that
ReplyDeleteI agree that night is very powerful and very disturbing. Some events will never leave my mind
DeleteIt sounds like night is a very disturbing book and would make your mind think about some of the things that people had to watch during that time.
DeleteThe many different ways the killed people in public is very disturbing.
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First image that can’t really leave my mind is when elie is first getting to the camp and they see children and babies getting tossed in to a fire pit. He said he could smell the burning flesh. Another image that is very vivid to me is when they are on the march towards the end of the book. They are going from camp to camp and they find a shed to go in. People are falling asleep everywhere and once there asleep they don’t wake up. They are also crammed into a shed with died body’s beneath and above them
ReplyDeleteI am reading I Am Malala and two images that I can picture are her house and how the Taliban look. I picture a black rusty gate in front of her house, and the rooms are concrete squares. I picture stone or wooden stairs in her house that lead to her roof that is flat and isn't small but not to big either. The Taliban have long black beards and hats or wraps that cover everything but their eyes. I think that she used such vivid and descriptive words because she wanted to put us in the story so we could picture where we were at in Swat and what was happening all around.
ReplyDeleteI could also feel what Malala and her family were going through.
DeleteThe first imagine that is still stuck in my head is when Meriam walked in to her house and saw her mom killed herself the morning after her dad locked her out of the house. The second one is how females had to have their whole face covered when going out or even in the house. Especially when Meriam tried to look nice and put make up on for him. Her forced husband said why is your face not covered. That would be a confidence killer right there.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a long way gone and the two scenes that really stood to me the most was when Ishmael saw a man with his dead family in truck trying to escape the rebels and a mom with here dead baby. The second scene was when Ishmael was forced to train and kill rebels, these scenes stood out to me because he had to witness all of that at a very young age and left Ishmael traumatized.
ReplyDeleteyea i agree not fun imaging people die or see people being shoot
DeleteI agree it would be so hard to deal with seeing people getting shot at at that age because your mine is not fully developed
DeleteThis is like The Kite Runner because Amir and Baba are trying to escape the Taliban
DeleteI am reading the book long way gone and I can imagine people getting shot or blown up in a scene and very good thing to see in your head i can see people shooting at me because it has happened to me before and it is not plesant
ReplyDeletei understand from where your coming from because it would be hard to survive by yourself at that age and still defend yourself
DeleteI dont know how he would be mentally stable after going through all of that war.
DeleteThe first use of imagery was used when Elie had to run with his injured foot i could just picture him limping and struggling. This image was so vivid to me because i could not imagine doing that but for Elie it was his life or death situation. Another image was when they said they got up from the camp and there was so many dead corpse laying around covered by snow. This shows how much great detail he put into this book so we understood the extent of things and how bad it was. One of the last images i still think about is how the Germans made the other Jews watch their fellow Jews get hung. The authors use of this imagery is what helped him portray his story the way it really happened.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book a Thousand Splendid Suns and there are there was a few images that the author described to a great extent. One of them being when Mariam made him rice with his dinner, and it wasn't quite cooked so Rasheed got very angry and ends up throwing the rice. Another great example of the author putting images into my head was when there was an explosion at the end of part two. This was a very scary moment that wanted me to keep reading but It made me think of the movie American Sniper and how the layout of the cities were there. As the author explained the explosion the thing that first went to my mind was if they all survived.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading a long way gone and I cant imagine being in that situation because I don't think I could deal with seeing people being blown up in front of my face and getting shot at because I know people that have got shot at before and its hard for them to tell the story.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of people dying in the book including people close to Ishmael so i can see where you imagined this.
DeleteI agree it is hard to imagine the scenes in this book. They are very mind boggling and intense
DeleteSome images that have been captured through my head while reading A Long Way Gone is Ishmeal walking through the jungle with a gun dodging bullets from the rebels. Another one would be his point of view when he is on all those drugs he is taking id have to imagine that what he sees and feels would be pretty wild. The last image i could imagine would be him leaving home for the greater good and the emotion that would be held in that image.
ReplyDeleteThis book seems very descriptive on the gory scenes and intense reading also agree it’s wild
DeleteI agree the author seems to want to focus a lot on descriptions more than on other details.
DeleteIm reading kite runner and i saw the scene where they were sneaking away and u could see all the old army junk and the soldiers playing cards in between the parked tanks. I could see the cheap hotel room they stayed in with the cracked window, wallpaper falling off the wall, the darkness in the room with no electricity. i can see the streets of Afghanistan he walked down. the stores that are there all the stone wall of the houses, all the people walking, all the poverty of people begging for money.
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I agree it is very descriptive part
DeleteI am reading a Thousand Splendid Sunst. The books is a very vivid and disturbing book. One of the times the author had a very vivid image was when Mariam made him his dinner. The rice she made with it wasn't cooked completely and for some reason that pushed him over the edge. He went outside and grabbed rocks. He then proceeded to force her to chew the rocks. It sounded like it was excruciatingly painful. Basic human nature is that we are unable to punch ourselves or even bite our own finger off because our brain won't let us. She had to push past that block and hurt herself by chewing rocks. Another thing that the author described with vivid imagery was in the beginning of the book. when the author was describing the Kolba, and lake where Mariam lived. I could picture myself standing there. In both scenes the author did a great job depicting what was happening and the surroundings.
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Kite Runner and I could really picture when Baba and Amir were trying to escape from the Taliban. I could imagine the bombs, fires, crack windows, people screaming for help, and shots being fired left and right.
ReplyDeleteIn my book, I am Malala the Taliban took women's rights. The Taliban are truly the worst.
DeleteYeah that part was also very easy to remember. The Taliban suck.
DeleteI agree that set a good picture in my mind what was happening and is shocking the stuff the Taliban do.
DeleteI am reading the book A Thousand Splendid Suns and throughout the book, they describe a lot of scenes that really paint a image in your brain while you are reading it. One of the scenes that really stood out too me was when Mariam made dinner for Rasheed and he said the rice she made was horrible so to show her what her food taste like to him, he goes outside and grabs a handful of pebbles. He forces them in her mouth and makes her chew them. They described how she spit them out and she had two broken molars and there was blood. For me, that scene made me cringe in horror
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Sydney, that scene in the book also made me very uncomfortable to the point were i had to stop reading.
DeleteWhen I read A thousands Splendid Suns I like to come up with how I think the person would look in real life. When I read this book I read clues that helped me put together how I would think the characters would look like. For example I imagine Mariam to be a beautiful but shy Indian woman. I think she would have long dark brown hair and brown eyes. I picture her to be on the tall side possibly standing at 5'9. When I think of Laila I think of some of the same characteristic's as Mariam but I think she would be a lot shorter then her. When i think of Rasheed i think of a very grouse looking man. The way the author writes about this man makes me feel this way. When I think of Rasheed I picture people in my life that make me uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I am reading I Am Malala, in the part where Malala and her family didn't have a TV until they moved, she told us that her favorite show to watch on there was a boy who uses a magic pencil to bring his drawings to life. She wishes she could have that pencil to make people happy. I can just imagine her as that boy. Bringing her drawings to life and making people happy. That's a life she wishes she has. As I read through I imagined what it was like being in Malala's shoes. Having rights taken from me, being discriminated just because I'm a different gender, and people taking over my home and making unfair rules. I bet Malala would do anything to have her life as her favorite TV show.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book the kite runner and i could imagine Hassan being killed very well. He was a pretty main character in the book and for him to be killed the way he was is just crazy. Can’t wait to read more!
ReplyDeleteI also think it was crazy that Hassan was killed the way he did too, I definitely did not see that coming.
DeleteThe author did a really good job describing how that whole situation happened
DeleteI am reading a long way gone by Ishmael Beah. There are two scenes that the author did a great job of depicting. At the beginning when the rebels first attacked there were people running out of other villages away from gunshots. And there was a van that pulled up with a dead person as passenger and a almost dead driver with the family all deceased. Also toward the end when they go into the city in a group home. The kids get into a fight and it is very descriptive about what happens and how it all goes down.
ReplyDeleteI agree the descriptions that the author gave seemed to be his main focus in the book and he wanted readers to know what he saw.
DeleteI am reading the book The Kite Runner, the first image that I can really imagine is when the are doing the kite competition. I can picture very well all the kites in the air with different colors and all the people on the ground looking up at them. That scene is described very well. Another scene is when the are describing the bombing with the rockets and what is happening to them. It sets up the image in my head well.
ReplyDeleteThe author really does a good job describing important scenes
DeleteI agree, he described the scene really well, I pictured them all cheering for the kites.
DeleteThe book I am reading is I Am Malala, Malala is a detailed writer and does very well with choosing the perfect words to describe an object, place or scene. A section of the book that stood out to me was in the prologue, when she was sharing her experience of being shot. She was describing the bus she rode everyday and what the man that shot her looked like. I could never understand the fear she felt and I never want to experience anything like what she went through. Another part of the part of the book that Malala did a great job at using imagery, was describing the Taliban. She would talk about how they were awkward and horrible-looking, they would also look dirty and wear all black with their faces covered.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book A Thousand Splendid Suns and the first scene that comes to my mind is when Mariam finds out her father was home after she had slept outside all night and never let her inside. The author shows how devastated Mariam was to find out her mother was right about her father. The second scene that comes to mind is when Mariam goes to the communal tandoor after Rasheed says she isn't acting like a wife and she is harassed by a bunch of women that want to ask her questions. Mariam gets starts to panic and tries to find her way back home. This scene really stuck with me because Mariam is trying, and expected, to be the perfect wife and this scene reminds you that she is still just a child.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the kite runner. Khaled Hosseini likes to describe the streets of Afghanistan and some of the very graphic situations in very deep detail. When he was talking about the beggars in the streets of a run down the own in Afghanistan I could picture it very easily. Also when he talked about the taliban shooting people in the streets because of their heritage, I could easily picture that in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI agree, he was very detailed about what was going on in the alley. I could picture the alley and what it looked like when the Taliban was there.
DeleteIn the Kite runner, the author uses really imagery when they were flying kites. He describes how people were watching the kites fly through the air, and the colors and how the kites looked. He is very detailed about what it looks like, so when you're reading you can feel like you're there watching them compete.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Long Way Gone and some of the images that the author has given that are really well described is the city in chaos after the army and rebels made an alliance to overthrow the government with mass killings. Another good example is of the authors description of New York City with the snow, crowds, and skyscrapers. These images are so vivid to show how and where the authors story began to how it ended. The author also seemed to use more description in the book instead of dialogue.
ReplyDeleteI agree the author gave very good details explaining everything basically making a movie in your head.
DeleteI am reading a long way gone and the imagery is spoken very well in the book. When ishmael is running from the rebels he explains it so well in his book i can basically see it. He was also explaining how his village got attacked and the blood spilled everywhere.
ReplyDeletethe book is very gory but it shows how grusome the war was.
DeleteIn my book A Long Way Gone the author also does a incredibly good job at explaining everything making the imagery very good.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a long way gone and some of the imagery is very well done. A very vivid one is when he was explaining the way how when one of the villages he was at was attacked and he described all the injuries that people had
ReplyDeleteI agree the imagery is done very well.
DeleteI am reading long way gone and the imagery is very detailed. one scene that stuck in my head is Ishmaels first fight in the war where his friend is killed. it is the turning point and he detailed it very well.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book The Kite Runner, the first image that I can really imagine is when the are doing the kite competition. I can picture very well all the kites in the air with different colors and all the people on the ground looking up at them.
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