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 Malala there is a lot of imagery throughout the story. Malala calls her hometown Swat such a beautiful place. She describes it as celar blue skies, with the freely flowing Swat river and the beautiful colorful gardens. Another time and place that i can picture really well in the book was when Malala got shot. The after part of it when she was in the hospital there were people standing everywhere outside with cameras and signs. News broadcasters and journalist were everywhere giving their sympathy to the family of Malala, but her father wasnt fond of this having so much attention because Malala was seriously injured.
ReplyDeleteThe imagery used in your book sounds very interesting and beautiful. The vivid colors you described make me want to read your book! I can even see the scene of when Malala was shot in the face.
Deletei agree, the imagery in the book when Malala is about to get shot is really good. the book does a great job at picturing it.
DeleteI agree with you. The book started to get really interesting towards the middle. When there is more detail it makes it a lot better. The way she describes everything made me not want to put it down!
DeleteThe way the author describes the surroundings, makes it seem like it takes place in paradise. Which kind of makes me want to read the book, just to see what happens in the end.
DeleteI agree that she does a good job of describing what Swat looks like and how beautiful it is. It sounds like an amazing place to live but in reality it is not.
DeleteI also remember the chapters when Malala describes her home Swat really detailed. She really loves that Swat valley because she uses the adjective "beautiful" very often. I think she did a great job describing her home, I could easily image that place.
DeleteI did not read this book but the way you describe it makes it sound like a very peaceful place. It sounds like the author is very good at describing every little thing and making it easy for the reader to picture what is going on.
DeleteMalala paints a beautiful of her home town and I can really see it while i am reading. I can really tell Malala loves her town very much.
DeleteThe description you got from your book is very good and you can really picture it well. You get a good image of her home town and how pretty it is. My book is the same way we get a good image of the town they live in it was super pretty and full of life but not anymore. Their is a war going on right by and it has just destroyed the town and taken the life right out of it.
DeleteI do agree with you that Malala uses alot of imagery to describe how beautiful Swat is. She always tells how beautiful it is. The way she describes the mountains makes it seem like a very pretty and scenic place to see.
DeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, my author has done a fantastic job of illustrating a vivid image. For example, when Mariam wanted to go to Herat and live with her father for a while Mariam's mom, Nana said that she would die if Mariam left her. Mariam left anyway, not thinking her mom would actually do anything to harm herself. When Mariam had to come back because her father did not want her to live with him and his five wives Mariam came home to her mother hanging from a tree by a rope. The way the author explained this really pulled me in and literally hand my jaw on the floor. Another example is when Rasheed was eating the rice Mariam made for him, when suddenly Rasheed goes outside and grabs a handful of pebbles and put them in Mariam's mouth and scolded her to chew them. This really opened my eyes and shocked me. Mariam said she had two brocken molars and an entire bloody mouth.
ReplyDeleteWow. Your book describes a lot of detail. This sounds interesting to me and makes me want to read it!
Deletethe imagery in this book sounds really vivid! it sounds like a book that would be an interesting read.
DeleteYou described the book into very good detail. It sounds interesting and is hard to put the book down.
DeleteI am also reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, I agree that the author explains in depth and detail with those situations that Mariam was put in. When I read the part about Mariam's parents I had the same reaction. I did not think her mom would do anything like that to herself, and I also did not think her dad would just let his wives kick her out that easily.
DeleteI am also reading this book and I thought those parts created a vivid image but then and again it made me keep reading to see what bad things will happen later in the book.
DeleteI'm reading A thousand splendid suns , and yes the author in here just explain things very well and the words the author uses almost makes you feel as if your a character in the book.
DeleteIn my book I am Malala she describes things in a lot of detail. She uses a lot of detail when she describes how she was shot and when she was in the hospital. The "chop chop and drip drip" of a man severing the head of chickens. The CT scan also shows how close the bullet was to the brain. Malala describes how beautiful swat is and how she never wants to leave that place.
ReplyDeleteThe way your author explains how she got shot really does paint a clear picture of the scene and how horrific it must have been for Malala. Also the sound effects of the chicken head really makes me be able to see how the chicken was chopped and how gross it must have been.
DeleteI agree with you. There is so much imagery in the book that it is easy to picture many things in the book!
DeleteWhen she was describing the scene where she was shot, you could almost feel her pain. Comparing it to the chickens really helped add sound to the image.
DeleteI also remember the describtion of the moment she got shot. I thought it was a very odd describtion, almost a bit sarcastic. I agree that she gives great detail about the Swat valley. She loves that place.
DeleteWow. That is really vivid image in my head of when she was in the hospital after she was shot in the head.
DeleteYour book shows a lot of imagery, I can picture her and what it must've been like to gets shot. It really paints a clear picture in my head.
DeleteI also agree with you that the imagery in this story is amazing. She always puts so much detail into the scene she is trying to describe to us which makes it really easy to imagine what she is talking about and going through.
DeleteIn the book Night, when the Jews first arrive at Birkenau, Elie did a great job of giving a first impression of what the camp looked like. Even before they got off of the train, the crematorium was the first thing that stood out to them. They could see the flames spilling out of the stack, and all they could smell was burnt flesh. There was no vegetation, everything was dead and brown. They were closed in by the fences and gates, with barbed wire lining the top of the fences. Another scene was when the Jews were being evacuated from Buna to another unnamed camp. The Jews had to run over 20 kilometers in the heavy snow to the train. The weakest Jews were falling and being trampled to their death. Once they arrived at the train, they were forced to put 100 Jews per train car. The train had to make frequent stops to throw the Jews that died on the train off of the cars
ReplyDeleteI agree with you the author does a good job with imagery throughout the whole book. It is very easy to picture the camps in the book.
DeleteThose are just among the many images I can picture in my head when I think of this book. The details that you described are, especially, what makes those images stand out to me.
DeleteThose where some really good painted pictures, i agree with those.
DeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone there are a lot of images that come to mind. Like when Ishmael cut a mans throat for the first time and said there was blood gushing out everywhere. also when Ishmael punched his hand through the window at his school and there were pieces of glass sticking out of his hand. Then when they were smoking weed and doing cocaine mixed with gun powder
ReplyDeleteYeah tanner i pictured the same thing i assume when you would slit someones throat there would be blood gushing out.
DeleteThere has been a few images i have collected throughout reading this book. The kid was doing all these drugs to keep his mind off stuff and concentrate on keeping himself alive is one of the images i can picture in my head. Another one his activities i can see throughout this book is him sitting all alone in the trees trying to stay safe and away from the rebels. The last really good image i see is when he explains him killing one of the rebels and saying that there was blood gushing down his body. These are the parts in the book i can picture because they are most harsh things that happens throughout the story.
ReplyDeleteI agree on what you said, all the bad things that happen throughout the story stand out to me the most because those are the ones he really goes into detail with.
Deletethis sounds like a good book to read, it has a lot of detail too it. keep up on the good work Jacob!
Deletei had the same image with the blood gushing out of the guys body, finish the book
Deletei also had the same image with the blood and what not.
DeleteIn the book Night, as soon as Elie, his father and all the other Jews arrive at the camps. The author does a very good job describing the crematorium I picture a huge brick building with a chimney. Another image that comes to mind is the camps. I imagine them to be run down little buildings that don't keep out the elements. The third thing I can imagine is all the Jews laying on the ground dead from starvation and being over worked.
ReplyDeleteI picture that to and it makes me think about all the horrible things the Jews went through in those camps.
Deletesounds very interesting book Cody hope u had a good time reading it
DeleteElie does a great job describing detail of all the death he witnessed in the camps, this book is definitely going to be hard to read for some viewers.
DeleteI agree, i pictured the same things.
Deletesounds like a good read and seems to show a lot of good imagery
Deletein the book Along way gone he talked a lot about the killing and what he was seeing and gave lots of detail of what he seen when he was running and in the war. Like when they made the rebels dig there own graves and stabbed them in the legs when they were done then buried them. When he was at the camp he did a lot of marijuana and cocaine
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Garret they do talk about when he did cocaine and marijuana and they also talk about the drug withdrawls he had after the war was over and he was told he could go home now
DeleteI agree that they talk a lot about killing in lots of detail, and did marijuana and cocaine to cope with it.
Deletei agree that they talked about killing in lots of detail and a lot of cocaine.
DeleteI am reading “I am Malala”. And so far Malala did a very good job of describing different stories, places and people. I think the challenge for Malala writing this book was to connect all of the different stories and actually putting it in a context so the reader can understand the plot and is able to put the little pieces together. The first scene that comes to my mind when thinking about images Malala Yousafzai created in her book is actually part of the prologue. Malala gives a very specific description of the day she got shot in the head by the Taliban on her way to school. By giving specific details about the environment around her when she got shot (“I remember that the bus turned right off the main road at the army checkpoint as always and rounded the corner past the deserted cricket ground.” p. 8). By adding quotes of the people around her right before she got shot makes this scene very vivid and thrilling to read. Malala also describes the Taliban member who shot her in a very detailed way (“The man was wearing a peaked cap and looked like a college student.” p. 9). I was really impressed with the fact that Malala was able to describe all of the details of the day she got shot. But I think those little details make this book worth reading it.
ReplyDeleteAnother situation I remember in great detail is how Malala described the family’s journey to “the village” for the Eid holiday. “We drove out of the bazaar, past the grinning red mouth signs for dentists, the carts stacked with wooden cages crammed with beady-eyed white chickens with scarlet beaks, and jewelry stores with windows full of gold wedding bangles (p. 59). By adding a lot of adjectives in to the description the reader can easily image the situation in his head. I could go on with my list of great descriptions in this book because there are so many. I think all of the little details make this book worth reading it and create a vivid picture in the readers mind.
Yes in the prologue she has so much description it is almost like I am watching a movie. I can picture her on a crowded bus next to a few other girls and I can feel how shocked she was.
DeleteOne image that I can remember, right off the bat, is at the beginning of the novel. When Moishe, the synagogue caretaker, was telling about his experience with the Gestapo. He said that the Gestapo killed the jews and threw them into holes that the Jews dug themselves. They also killed the babies by using them for air target practice. Another image that I came across from reading was how Elie and the Jews were on a death march and they entered a cemetery and among them were frozen corpses and they had to walk on top of them to go through. These images are stuck into my mind because of how, mortifying, these pictures are described . What has me fascinated is the way Wiesel described it by using little detail. Because of how he described in very plainly, it leaves my to think of the details myself. I believe that thinking of the details myself would make the images more realistic than if Wiesel described it himself. That's mainly how I would keep reminding myself of them when I think of the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteI agree it was a lot more horrible to visualize because the details were left for you to think about.
DeleteI agree that the images stick in your head. I feel like the author described the camps so well so you could picture how terrible the camps were
DeleteI agree with you Tim. Some of the scenes he describes are just unimaginable that someone could have to go through something like that at one point. Especially when they used the babies as machine gun target practice. Not easy to forget once you read about it
DeleteI Agree with you Tim, this book really described what had gone on
DeleteIn Night there are several vivid images that captured my eye. the first is when they were all running in the snow. the author used wording to show how tired and run down they all were, and to show that they were all dying. The second is when they were being loaded into the trains for the first time. The author used words to paint the picture of fear, dismay, and sadness that they all felt.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, the author did a great job describing what those scenes looked like
DeleteI agree with you Matthew, I enjoy reading about how the author described the camps.
DeleteThat part of the book was hard to read considering the hardship everyone faced and the death that continued throughout the chapter
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone one image I can remember is the first time he slit a mans throat for the first time. He described how their was blood gushing out, and he used the jagged part of the bayonet to cut through his adams apple. Another image I can remember is when he described the time they took a rebel town and made the prisoners bury themselves. He describes how every time they slow down they shot at their feet, and after they dug the holes they killed them and buried them.
ReplyDeletei agree with you noah i did too image when he slit the mans throat i thought it was quiet gruesome
DeleteI agree with you Noah its just shocks me what he became as a soldier and just go nuts killing as many rebels he kills.
Deletewow that sounds like its a good book to read Noah. i might have to read it for our next book.
DeleteThat was one of the most vivid times in the book. thinking of that does show how crazy a lace that he was really in.
Deleteone image from my book a long way gone is when ishmal is snorting coke and shooting rebels it brings an image to my mind of gruesomeness and unholy sins. Another image is when there carrying there dead friend to be buried that had to be hard to carry the person youve been through it all and throwing them in a hole and covering them up for good it has to take a toll on him mentally and physically.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it must have been hard for him to carry and bury a dead friend.
DeleteI agree with you Walter the part with him snorting coke really put an image in mind that showed me what this poor kid is actually going through.
Deletei agree with u and he did the coke and smoked dope was his way of get rid of the mentally and physically
DeleteI agree with you Walter he did the coke just to have no pain from his bullet wounds and so he would have no feeling killing the rebels.
Deletethat was a very sad scene from the book. i cant imagine the amount of stress he would have to do that.
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala, and she does a terrific job of describing things like the situations she's in and her country. She describes her hometown of Swat as being very beautiful. The images of the luscious mountains, lakes, and green hillsides make it sound like a place that anyone would want to live in. These are all things that we can imagine clearly like we are in the U.S. Another scene that sticks out to me is when she is shot. She uses words such as crack, chop, and drip. You can almost feel her bones breaking and the blood dripping like she described about the chickens. Since she is so well educated, it can be hard to understand what she is talking about until you can find the images in your head and connect to them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on trying to picture the image through description. With what I'm told about the vivid and specific details in the book, I Am Malala is an extraordinary source of expressive imagery.
DeleteI also thought she did an amazing job at describing what it was like in her situation and how she was feeling during certain times. i also really liked how she would give a ton of details on why she was mad or when she was sad and why and how she described how everything in swat looked when she returned home.
DeleteIn the book "A thousand Splendid Suns" there are many times where I can imagine very well what is happening. One example of a time where I thought it was extremely vivid was when Rasheed made Mariam eat pebbles. Rasheed was eating the rice Mariam made for him and he thought it taste like pebbles so he went outside grabbed some and shoved them into her mouth. She then explained how she could taste blood in her mouth and her molars were broken. This scene was very well detailed and I could picture everything that was happening. Another scene was when Rahseed made sure Mariam and Laila knew the rules. He stood there and screamed at them and told them exactly what they can and can not do. Mariam then tells Laila that she will not be her servant no matter what he says. I can picture Rasheed yelling at Laila and Laila being scared to death and Mariam not caring at all. There are many parts in the book where I can picture exactly what is going on in my head.
ReplyDeleteI am reading, A Thousand Splendid Suns. One of the images I have in my head because of the use of imagery was when Laila was getting ready to move. Laila was putting the rest of her mom and dad's stuff out in the car to take to a pawn shop so they would have some money to move. When a stray rocket hit her house with her parent's still in it, and blew it to pieces. When the rocket hit, Laila was thrown high into the air. Mariam found her and pulled her out of the rubble, and brought her home to help her recover. Another image I remember was when Nana (Mariam's Mom) hung herself. Mariam was on her way back from her dad's house because he would not let her go into his house. Mariam's dad sent her back home with his driver. When they got to Mariam's lane, the driver was walking ahead of her and he saw her mom dangling from a tree. He tried to shield her from seeing her mom, but she saw it anyway. Now Mariam regrets leaving her mom. She kept thinking that if she would not have left her, she would still be here with her. These images are so vivid because the author put a lot of content and imagery into the book.
ReplyDeleteI agree about those scenes in the book as well. I thought I could picture those very well too, especially the time where she was putting stuff in her car and her house blew up.
DeleteTwo scenes that really stood out to me in I am Malala have been when she came back to Swat after being an IDP (internally displaced person) and her school trip after school started again. When Malala was finally able to come back home to Swat she talked about how when they opened the gate to her house her yard looked like a jungle. That painted a picture in my mind of overgrown plants everywhere. Once things where kind of back to normal for the most part Malala talked about a school trip she had to the waterfalls like they always used to do when she was younger. She talked about how they played in the green forests and how the water from the water falls glistened in the sun. It reminded me of some of the waterfalls I have seen from camping in the summer.
ReplyDeletei thought the same thing about the yard when she said tat i had pictured the tree branches over hanging from growing to long and i imagined the grass and weeds had grown so long that it looked like huge mess.
DeleteIn the book Long Way Gone, I see the image of Ishmael of how he goes through such brutal battle and how he runs away from the rebels so he dose not get killed. He talks about how he sees every is killed and wear they got shot and blood gushing out of the bullet wounds. The next visual is when Ishmael is a soldier an is on a killing spree killing all the rebels that has killed his family. Then it gets in depth about how he uses a bayonet and dose drugs so he has no pain or feeling.
ReplyDeleteHe does go through a lot of hardships that are very hard to take in.
DeleteIshmeal does do a great job of describing the scenery. Almost to good of a job sometimes.
DeleteIshmeal defiantly has to go through a lo and hearing all of it makes me wonder how he is still alive through all of it.
DeleteIn my book there is a lot of imagery as the author describes the bricked crematorium and as the Jews would have to get rid of other dead Jews. Also how they had to struggled to survive the winter with very little food and trying to keep each other warm. Another ways the author describe what life was like as a Jews how they had to stay fit to avoid selection.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and the author creates a bunch painted pictures in my head. One of them when Laila is laying on the gurney in the operating room. Just the way the author describes them trying to get baby Zalmai out safely. Another part of the book was when Mariam wants to go to town with Rasheed but her Nana tells her not to because she will do some damage. While Mariam is on her way to town, she stumbles across a tree where her Nana is hanging from.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the author makes you really picture the story and the bad things that happen. That scene when Laila has her baby and how it is just such a big mess. Also the pain she went through in having that baby you could really tell how hard it was. This characters in this book their life is very rough and he really makes you see that.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns there are many scenes I could really picture in my head. The way the author goes into the details about the bad things to show how rough life really is. He went into detail about when Nana hung herself and how rough is was especially for Mariam to see. Also every time Rasheed beats Laila and Mariam it really goes into details. About what he would do to them and how much he hurt them and the marks he would leave on them. Another thing you can really picture is how rough it is there in that town. The author talks about the environment so much and all the things going on with the war that is right there near them. He makes you know how rough of a time they have at home and outside of home and really makes you picture it.
ReplyDeleteElie did an incredible job painting a picture in the readers mind of what the camps looked like upon arrival, how all the Jews were surrounded by fence and they can see and smell the ash of men, women, and children in the air. When the young boy was hung in the middle of the camp and hung there for half an hour before he actually died, the image Elie painted there was horrific. needless to say this book is definitely intended for mature readers.
ReplyDeleteIn my book Night there are several images that I could see while reading. The first is when they were being loaded into the trains for the first time. The author used words to show the picture of fear, suffering , and sadness that they all felt. The second is when they were all running in the snow. The author used wording to show how tired and run down they all were, and to show that they were all dying.
ReplyDeletewhen ishmael slit someones throat for the first time. i could picture it in my mind with all the blood and sounds. its a very desturbing immage but very descriptive. another one is when he punched out a window and glass was in his hand. That would hurt a lot.
ReplyDeleteTwo images the author of the book Night has but int my mind is what the bodies of the prisoners of the concentration camps and how they look like "walking corpses", the other is when he talks about the moldy bread and the soups from how thick and rotten they would be to how it was mostly water. These images where so vivid in the fact that not only did the author talk about them a lot but he went into a lot of detail about what they where like.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading the book I am Malala, and in the book she does a really good job at going into detail and explaining things. She puts in alot of details about her home valley, Swat. She describes how beautiful it normally is, but also does a really good job at explaining how it lots after tragedies happen. When Swat had flooded, she described that when they went back into the school their was water marks on the walls of how high the water had risen and that there was mud all over everything. She also used imagery to describe what Swat looked like after the Taliban attack. Malala said that everything in the town was destroyed. She described it as jungle-looking which made me picture things thrown everywhere and everything looking really messy.
ReplyDeleteIn a long way gone Ishmeal uses imagery very effectively. He described the war-torn villages visited as ghost towns littered with the maimed dead. Another good use of imagery is when he visited New York for the first time. He described it as a chaotic place covered with white powder. The buildings where bigger than he has ever seen before and was mesmerized by the biggest TV he had ever saw down in town square. these are the two images that stuck in my head the most.
ReplyDeleteHe really does use imagery effectively, the way he gives great details and explains things in a different way. Things can just stick in your head so easily.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone the author creates a lot of imagery throughout the story, I can see Ishmael going through the tough times in the war and every detail of what has happened to him. The images he creates are vivid because he goes into so much detail of the events that have occurred and he makes you see that.
ReplyDeleteI can visualize the way Kamator got attacked, him coming home to nothing but dead bodies. He has really gone through the most hardest times a thirteen year old could.
Deleteim reading the book A thousand splendid suns and in this book they show imagery by when Mariam describes her hometown and the way the skys look. another is when Mariam explains the bomb hitting her house and seeing all the rubble and feeling the bomb hit.
ReplyDeleteIn i am Malala there is a lot of details to help imagine how things look threw out reading. They show imagery when malala and her family get back to swat she says how it used to be a beautiful place and how its turn to pieces of buildings every by being blown up by the Taliban.
ReplyDeletei also could imagine in the beginning of the book when malala was describing how swat was beautiful she describes how the valley looked when she walked through with her friend and how the flowers looked.
"It was the Atlantic Ocean" an image that has stuck with me, the way Ishmael explains the ocean's sounds and how it spread out beyond the vision of his eyes, the sky at its bluest and seemed to curve down and join with the ocean in the distance. Ishmael managed to explain this vivid image so easily by realizing that there still remained that true and natural beauty, and it helped take his mind away from his current situation. I believe its easier to explain something beautiful than something horrific.
ReplyDeleteThe night he had a nightmare different from the ones he has had before. I can visualize his nightmare by the great detail he uses in his work. From him swimming in a river at Mattru Jong with his brother to his family coming home as if nothing happened and later everything and everyone disappeared. I do not fully understand the meaning of his nightmare, but think its terrifying. I can envision him asking himself all these questions as to why he was dreaming this and wondering where his home and family had gone.
A thousand Splendid Suns the setting in the book and how the author uses words to make it seem like your in the story seems surreal. Even the character's feelings, its almost as if your feeling the same exact thing.
ReplyDeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone there are many times that you see imagery. One of them is when he explains how the raid villages and how they kill some of the people there. I puts so much detail into what he writes you can almost see it. He explains every action he takes and how he does what he does. He explained one time killing a man and how he buried him while he was still alive. There was another time which was when he first heard the ocean. He described the sound of the waves hitting the sore like a thundering noise. He explain the wind and he sight and it felt as if i was there seeing it with him.
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