Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Blog Response #8

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.

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  1. Our author leaves most of the details of the settings up to the reader's imagination. But where he really uses imagery is when he is describing the charters. Like when we first heard of Hassan the author used extreme details to describe his facial features size and overall physique of his appearances which after reading makes you picture a average size 11 year old with darker skin a rounded face and slightly squinted eyes. Another time the author has done this is on Amir's trip back to Kabul he runs into a homeless man who appears like he hasn't showered in weeks he is missing and eye and his eyelid just dangles above the hollow socket. when he opens his mouth he has only a few teeth that are yellowed and rotting. Our author continues to paint pictures of the charters while still allowing the reader to imagine the details of the setting.

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    1. Unlike your book, in a long way gone, the author leaves very little, if anything, up to the readers imagination. He describes every gruesome detail in depth.

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    2. I agree foster i like how our author did that its kind of like everyone sees the book a little different.

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  2. in along way gone the author uses gruesome imagery to tell the reader what the war was like and what it looked like." his van is followed by a continuous stream of wounded, crying people, including a woman who carries her dead baby on her back. They child had been shot dead as she fled from the rebels. The woman stops and rocks her baby in too much shock to even weep. The baby’s body has so many bullets that they are protruding from its body"
    " the imam refuses to leave the middle of the prayer and the rebels find him, bind his hands and feet and burn him to death, his body is forced to rot in the town square."
    "i looked under my feet. peeled flesh hung down and congealed blocks of blood and particles of sand clung to each hanging bit of skin."
    These images are so vivid because he uses very intense and horrifying word choice when he is describing the images of the war. he accomplished this by not really holding anything back just writing every little detail he saw during this time in his life.

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    1. All the gruesome scenes stick in my mind too. These kinds of scenes are constant throughout the book and are impossible to get away from because they happen so often.

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    2. These are the images that stay with you forever if you experience them first hand, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.

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    3. I agree with all of these images! but the one that stood out to me the most was when the women carried her dead baby on her back.

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    4. Theres also very vivid images in Kite Runner which leads to the bad guilt that the story revolves around

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  3. The first scene that I think of right away in this book is when Amir talks about his fathers home. He describes it as a man-cine, with marble floors, custom fit cabinets in the living room, a curved wall leading into the kitchen, large sliding doors to go into the back yard, and all these shrubs/ bushes as he walks up the lane. I think of a celebrity house in Holly Wood. Then he says how there is a hut that the servants live in. The next thing I think of comes later on in the book, the orphanage that he is at looking for a boy, he has been told that it is barley better than the streets. The beds are junk, they dont know all the kids exactly, and they dont have much for clothes. This left an impact on me because that would be terrible to live like that. The author shows how some kids had to live, and it was terrible. Amir had a cushy life until he fled to USA. It shows how Amir had to face another hardship in his life, this book has very good imaginary and it is hard for me to choose two.

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    1. I agree but beyond basic scenery later on in the book I felt the author left the details of the setting up to the reader to image

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  4. There is a lot of scenes within this book and while there is a lot of scenes none of them have been captured in my mind, while I could picture them I couldn't really capture it because the author moves on to another scene and didn't describe it in detail like I wanted to. If I was gonna envision a scene I would need specific detail, more then the author gives out. The author tells you whats happening in the scene but not details about whats happening so I cant envision it. To me the author didn't do a good job of giving details for you to envision the scene that he is telling

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    1. I disagree with you I thought this book gave very good details throughout this story and a lot of vivid imagery.

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    2. Maybe you aren't reading the book carefully enough. Every author in every book we are reading this round, truly uses visual imagery through his/her words to re-create the scene.

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  5. In the book "Night" I remember when Elie and his dad were just getting to the concentration camp and they saw the crematorium where they were throwing Jews alive in the kiln and burning them alive and the ashes of the people that were burned coming out of the smoke stacks. Another scene that remember really well is when the cooks had left a couple of cauldron out in the middle of a couple of barracks and a prisoner went out there and he stuck his head in the steaming hot soup and one of the guards shot him and them prisoner leaded on the ground squirming a little bit.

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    1. yes I remember the part when this guy went to steal some soup and he got shot. you explained it a lot better than I did in my blog.

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    2. I can also picture the people getting burned alive at the crematorium and how Elie said the town smelled like burning flesh.

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    3. Kite runner also uses to sent to help put us in present time. He talks about the smell of fuel when they are getting trasported to a refuge camp

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  6. 1 of the 2 peace's of imagery caught in my mind is when they separated the men from the woman. I remember picturing Elie and his dad walking together in the group of men. this was so vivid to me because this maybe the last time they see each other again. the second part I pictured very well in my head was when there was a fresh pan of soup out in the middle of the road, unguarded and this one guy goes up to get some within seconds there was a gun shot and the guy was dead. this image is so remember able to me is, because he was just trying to get some good free food so he doesn't starve and he gets shot. the SS were also trying to trick them and they wanted to see how many dumb Jews there were.

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    1. I can also picture the man in my head who was trying to go get the soup. I think that is terrible of the SS men to do that to him.

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    2. That part I don't get about that is why did he stick his face in the steaming hot soup.

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    3. I'm confused on the part you are taking about him walking with his dad. There are many parts when he is walking with his dad and it could be the last time. Is it at the beginning, middle or end? But I agree I can also picture when the man goes out to get the soup and he gets shot in the head like its nothing.

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  7. in the book a thousand splendid suns, i picture laila to have darker skin and to have a towel on her head. only because its kind of in Afghanistan. the other image i see is that rasheed and tariq to have a beard. most of the guys over there have beards so i pictured a beard. i assume that because the author say ts in the middle east Afghanistan area and thats how i picture it.

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    1. That's interesting, because even with most books, a character is described when they are first introduced. Although this happens I always end up getting my own picture of what they look like and it could be totally different.

      With Laila, I picture her to have slightly lighter skin with yellow curly hair and blue eyes. I know that the book mentions her hair being a yellow color, but I kind of just gave her lighter skin and blue eyes without even remembering her description.

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    2. I think it's great you express what you think the characters look like and describing it with being in the Middle East.

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    3. These are physical characteristics of the characters. I'm looking for more. A scene. An event?

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  8. In the novel "Night" the author makes sure you're able to imagine some of the scenes in the book. The first scene I was able to imagine is the crematorium. The author explains how the people are getting burned alive and how the air is filled with black smoke and it smells like burning flesh. The second scene I can imagine is when the innocent people are getting hung. The people who were hung didn't grieve or anything the just sat here and didn't say a word. The author also explains how the soup tasted after the two times the people were hung. Before the young boy died Elie said the soup tasted great and then after he said it tasted like corpes. I can picture him eating it and having a face someone would make if they don't like something.

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    1. but the prisoners did do something in remembrance of the people that were hung. they took there hats off to be polite. also a guy standing behind Elie said "wear is god?" several times.

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    2. I don't how I would feel if I watched a little boy get hanged and squirming around because he is so small that it doesn't kill him right away.

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    3. I like how you said before the little boy died the soup tasted could and after that is tasted like corpses. That is something I could never really picture until you said it.

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    4. when ever in the book they talked about a specific time someone was killed he would always say what the food tasted like. like at the crematorium he said the food tasted of ash.

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    5. I agree with when the young innocent people were hung I pictured that very well. Especially when they were saying how his tongue was turning blue and they were moving a lot.

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  9. One of the scenes in the book that is vivid to me is when Laila and Mariam are dropping of Aziza at the orphanage. When they are walking down the hallway I can envision the dull colored walls and the raggedly clothed children wandering around. Another scene that sticks out to me is when Mariam is executed. I can imagine the truck ride through the streets of Kabul and then getting off the truck on the field inside the stadium and hearing a hush fall over the chattering crowd. These images are vivid because the author uses specific language to describe them and since they are emotionally charged scenes the mind works harder in building a landscape for what you are reading.

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    1. agreed. When Mariam was executed at the end of part 3 I could just imagine the atmosphere of the stadium and everyone's emotions flowing through the whole place.

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    2. i agree the book made me feel like was there every time i read it

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    3. This book seems like it has a lot of detail in it, good imagery.

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  10. The image that sticks in my mind the most from a long way gone is then Ishmael is in his first battle as part of the army. He watches as his friends die, and is basically showered by their blood. Another image that has stuck with me is all of the drug use. It is brought up all the time, the reader is constantly reminded of all of the drugs that these kids are using.

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    1. After hearing about the drugs they use I can't even imagine the long term affects that will come with them

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    2. alot of these images stick in my mind to

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    3. But how does the author recreate these images? Why do they leave a lasting impression?

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  11. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the author moves through the book at a fast pace. All of the scenes change quickly with little detail when it comes to the surroundings.

    Although there isn't much detail, one can easily picture what Afghanistan would look like during a war. Hosseini mentions there being rubble, and buildings torn apart quite often. He doesn't have to go into detail; assuming the reader can paint a picture on their own.

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    1. I would agree. He doesn't always give a lot of detail but he still makes it very easy to paint a picture in your head.

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    2. it is true that he doesn't add a lot of detail but how it makes you think you are there makes it seem like their is.

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    3. Kite Runner is a lot jumping back and forth from past to present. This book is desciptive of afgan during war time.

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    4. that seems like a hard book to read if it jumps back and forth

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    5. I agree that the author does not add a lot of detail, but it allows us to put the puzzle pieces together.

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  13. In I am Malala she tells about how beautiful Swat is and how the scenery looks. The one image of Swat that stays with me is how she described the mountain tops in the area because how they're white caps stick above the clouds. Another is when malala is in hospital and the doctors are describing her surgery. What stays with me is the thought of them removing part of her skull in the surgery and how it would look after. These images are so vivid as the description in them is so deep.

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    1. I agree with you rusty I can also imagine the beauty of where Malala is from and how the snow capped mountains look and the water falls that fall from them. As well as this I could also picture what Malala's trip to the hospital was like and I can picture what everything looked like and the way her room is set up. Malala is very descriptive in her writing that allows you to imagine whats going on.

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    2. I think Malala is very descriptive. I also have a very vivid image of what malalas town looks like.

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  14. in a thousand splendid suns one of the images i still have in my head even know I am done reading the book is when rasheed forces pebbles in mariams mouth and makes her chew them. this is still in my head because he went into great detail with it. Another image i still have in my head is when Laila's house gets hit by the rocket i see the house explode and bodies be thrown around like rag dolls and body parts every where because how he put it in words just made me feel like i was there.

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    1. These are defiantly a scenes I remember as well. They were the only scenes I could think of when I was trying to write my blog.

      Most other scenes in A Thousand Splendid Suns are very plain, and I think that's because the author is trying to cram so much into a decent sized novel.

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    2. Yeah the rocket hitting their house was very vivid, the whole scene seemed to go in slow motion

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    3. I forgot about the first one, but the rest is still very recent like I lived through what happened

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    4. Well said! I completely forgot about the rocket hitting the house. I can picture it a little bit now that it comes to mind.

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  15. Due to the very descriptive details in this book there are always images being put into my head. The first one came when Ishmael and his companions arrived at the coast by the Atlantic ocean. I imagined myself back on a beach somewhere looking towards the horizon where the sun was setting. Those are the things we always remember. After this things became darker. When the boys were walking through a burnt village Ishmael saw a mans head was bashed and he was still breathing, but his brain was throbbing like a heart beat. The next time was just after he had been trained to fight like a soldier. He was sent out into a clearing waiting for the rebels to attack. Laying there hidden by the trees scanning the battlefield for enemies.

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    1. It seems like you author did a great jobing describing the setting and characters throughout the entire book. I felt in our book The Kite Runner there are large chucks of detail missing where other section have very in depth imagery.

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    2. ishmaeal did a very good job describing everything that had happened to him

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    3. I agree the author did a really good job describing that part of the book

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    4. Sounds like a great book to read, maybe thinking I should have read your book instead. It sounds like it describes eveything very well.

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  16. There are many images that I could visualize very vividly. One of them is when the little boy gets hung in front of everybody. I can picture him not squirming before being hung, I pictured it being him as calm as can be. When the stool got kicked out from under him it took him along time for him to finally die, and when he finally did I could picture the way he looked. The author was talking about how the boy was like a savior for the jews, and that's why he didn't die right away. Another one is when all the jews were put on a wagon by 100 per wagon. The author explains how jews keep dying off and that there are 12 left in Eliezer and his fathers wagon counting them. That's not the part I am picturing though. The part of it that stands out to me is when they drove through towns of Germans, the Germans would throw bread into the wagon and watch the jews beat each other to death for the bread. I can picture the smirks on the Germans faces, because the author said they threw the bread in there for pure amusement. The last one that I can picture and I wish I could get it out of my mind is when all the jews had to evacuate camp and run to that village. I can just picture jews being shot left and right if they slow down. The lasting image about it is when they finally reach the village. Wiesel explains how everybody is laying in the snow and you see all these bodies in the snow that will never get back up again because their dead. I wish I could get the image of that out of my head put it's something that happened in real life and it's that will never be forgotten.

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    1. I think that your book sounds like i might be having nigtmares if i read it.

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    2. when they hung the little boy the way he descried it was as you were right there watching along with the others

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    3. Wow it seems like their is alot of imagery in your book, it truly shows by that how severe everything is. Truly incredible.

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  17. In my book Malala describes where she is from very well I can picture what she is describing because she uses very descriptive words that allows me to travel to where she is talking about. The second thing I can picture is when she is in the hospital I can image what the room looks like and where all the medical equipment is in her room. Another image that stand clearly in my head is how she described all the dead bodies scattered all of the road and how they were left their as a message to people who wanted to fight against the Taliban. The last thing I can picture from this book would be the faces of the people on the bus when the two guys came looking for Malala I can imagine the fear in the eyes and on the faces of these individuals.

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    1. I agree with both the hospital and the where she is from as she describes very deeply about both scenes.

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    2. I can picture the people in there turbins on their heads as well. Also agree with the author using descriptive wording!

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    3. i fell like she looks like she has a towel on her head just by her name malala

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    4. I agree as you read the story, its like your living war also, she well describes what was going on.

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  18. In the book malala the author has created a very fine image in my head of where she lives. Now I dont know if it actually looks like that. I picture the town very small with maybe 15-20 little houses surrounding a school made of grey cinder blocks. The houses are cubed like with glass less windows. They look as if they are made of clay. The roads are all dirt. There are flowers in front of the houses. Inside the house are the basic furniture, like a chair, couch, and a chest with little to no toy in it. I think the author creates this image from the words he uses and in the beginning of the book he explained a lot of that.

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    1. I agree with your imagery of what swat would look like I don't think it is a very wealthy place but it is full of families and little houses and the two schools where the boys and girls go. Malala's writing allows us to picture what her home town would look like. Another thing that I can picture is the hospital after Malala has been shot by the Taliban

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    3. Thats a great point Rusty I like your descriptive notes that you put on here.

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    4. I also captured how the people of Swat are very modest, they don't enjoy expensive furniture or anything like that, they are very humble people.

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    5. This is one image. Are there more you could have added?

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  19. I think that Khaled Hosseini who is the author of "A Thousand Splendid Suns", didn't use a lot of detail most of the time because he mad it very easy to paint a picture through envisioning. When Lailia Killed Rasheed with the shovel I could just envision Rasheed in his raged clothes lying there with blood spewing out of his head and Mariam looking in awe. The other scene that stood out to me was the execution of Mariam. Again he didn't use a lot of detail but I could easily imagine the fear in her body being escorted into the stadium of roaring civilians who couldn't wait for this moment. The adrenaline rushing through Mariam's body was insane.

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    1. I agree it is easy to fill in the blanks in the scene about the Mariam's execution, it is sometimes difficult to rememeber what was actually in the book and what I added myself.

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    2. I agree with you Trevor and Cory. It is very easy to paint a picture and then also add your own details within the story.

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  20. One moment, was when a stray rocket flew and hit Laila and her friend but Laila didn't die and her friend Giti die. Her body pieces were all over the street and her mother running up and down the street collecting pieces of her daughter, two weeks later her decomposed right foot was found on a rooftop. Another moment that's also stuck in my head is when Laila and Mariam tried to run away but the police caught them and Rasheed beat Mariam till she was bloody and literally locked her inside of a tool shed and sealed it off with wood and nails, He locked Laila and the baby inside a room and pushed something in front of it so they wouldnt escape and didnt feed them laila worried that her baby might die of dehydration and starvation. The very last moment that is still in my head is when Rasheed suggested they make Aziza a beggar and Laila got so mad that she hit Rasheed multiply times that was until he figured out what was happening and gained the upper hand and started choking her he was trying to kill them and before Rasheed could kill Laila Mariam hit him upside the head with a shovel and killed him where she turned her self in the next day. These images are so vivid because they were very detailed so very true. when we read something like this we often try to put ourselves in their shoes so we see what they seen within the details.

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    1. I agree, the image of Mariam hitting rasheed reminded me of the shovel girl lol. That must've hurt but in all honesty he deserved it.

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  21. As i was reading night there are several images that stick out to me. one of these images takes place in a train car. ellie and his father have been in the concentration camps for over a year now. it is in the train car that about a 100 dirty starving prisoners are held. when scrapes of food are throuwn into the car the prisoners start fighting over the food like wild animals. it is then ellie see's a man crawl out of the fray with a small piece of bread. the man is then beaten to death by his very own son for his piece of bread. only for the son to be beaten to death not a minute later for the same piece of bread he killed his father over. another scene that stood out to me was when ellie and the other prisoners were forced to march to another concentration camp and ellie reliased that the radis's son had not lost his father in the crowd but had abandoned him to increase his own chances of survival. i believe that these images were so vivid because the author wanted to show how far somene would go to survive. how the conditions of he camps forced people to think about them self and their survival above all others. "you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone." pg 110

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  22. In the book 'A Long Way Gone' the author uses horrid imagery to tell the reader what the war was like also what it looked like. One of these imagery's is when Ishmael the main character was having a nightmare. He is pushing a wheelbarrow with a dead body in it and there are other bodies bleeding and dying all around him. The body is wrapped in a white bed sheet and after Ishmael pulls it to the ground he begins to unwrap it and there are bullets all the way from his feet to his neck. He lifts the cloth and sees his own face. Another one that caught my mind was when a man showed up to a village Ishmael was at and in his van was his whole family dead inside of it. Another image that stand clearly in my head was a woman who carried her baby on her back running away from the rebels in shock even though she knew it had been shot with many bullets They child had been shot dead as she fled from the rebels. These images are so vivid because it gives the reader a better perspective on the situation and make them feel like they are really there.

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    1. Those images are very vivid and shows a lot of imagery. Very good points made!

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  23. In the book "Night" the author uses terrifying imagery to show/tell the reader how terrible the Jews were treated. First, when Elie saw someone having sex he got whipped 20 times. That made me vision that in my head. How horrible that was. Second was when the young boys got hung and how they were saying that the one boy was still alive after 30 minutes and his tongue was hanging out, turning blue. That made me visualize that scene very well. Third, when they were describing the camps and what was in them that made me visualize what it was like compared to there last home. How horrible and miserable they must be. Its like I could feel there emotions. These images are so vivid so when you read this book you can feel there emotions and understand what they are going through.

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  24. In "A Long Way Gone" the author describes the imagery in a lot of detail with different sounds or what they are felling. One part of the book they start to hear this crashing sound and then they find out that they were right next to an ocean. He describes "the beach as its hot on there tore up feet so the would walk on the wet sand. Next to the sea it was not as humid as inland and the sky was at it s bluest." These details give me a very described image in the readers head and shows them what they are dealing with.

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  25. In "A Thousand Splendid Suns" the people were being forced to listen to the laws or would be beaten. I definitely can see somebody being beaten for not following the law. I would picture the person being beat would have severe damage done to their body. Probably with blood gushing down as well. The second thing I pictured was the C-Section Laila had. She told them to cut her open and not to numb her body. What I pictured was lots of intestines being taken out of her. It sounded very graphic.

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    1. I pictured Laila's C section too that must've hurt so badly especially her body not being numb just the thought of all that blood. I wonder how my mom did it.

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  26. Our author really lets the reader picture things more than anything. He never really describes certain settings like his new house in california or even his old house from where he came from although he lets us imagine that it is a very large house because he came from a very weathy family and also decribes his servants living in "Mud Huts" which i found to be a powerful messages comparing Mud huts to Large houses

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    1. Although your author maybe doesn't describe things as in detail as some of the others, there are details in there that help you piece the story together.

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  27. In the book "A thousand splendid suns" I think the most vivid iage that came to me was when Laila cut her fingers to show Rasheed that she was a virgin. I think that image was very strong because she had to physically cut herself to get the blood on the bed. The next image that I remembered was when Mariam had to see Rasheed and Laila get married. I think that wouldve been really hard on her to see her husband marry another women and I know I would've gotten mad too. Also when Mariam's mom commited suicide I saw her hanging herself or something which was also another hard image that came into my head.

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    1. Sounds like an interesting book, good details!

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  28. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns there is a part where both Mariam and Liala try to escape Rasheed that in my mind I can picture very well. Well they start by getting the idea that the two want to run away and when they get caught they get sent back to Rasheed and he wasn't having any of that. When they were locked up in the shed I can picture what is going on so perfectly and I can picture the girls freaking out while he is beating them till they're bloody. He then is boarding up the doors so they for sure can't get out. That really stands out to me because it shows truly how poorly women get treated in that country. Also when the rocket hit Liala's house and all of the bodies were thrown around basically like rag dolls, I can only picturing something of this sort in a movie but when we think about these things happening it is just incredible.

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  29. In the book A Thousand Splendid Suns is when Mariam and Laila tried to escape from Rasheed but they got caught. They were sent back to Rasheed and locked them up in the shed and were punished. Another chapter that is stuck in my head is chapter 45 were Rasheed going to Kill Laila. Then Mariam just killed Rasheed with a shovel. Details are important with these scenes because it shows how women are treated in that country. One of the hardest images that won't leave my head is when Mariam's mom hung herself. I can never seem to get that out of my head.

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  30. I am Malala, has so many imagery through out the book, the most shocking example are not about peace or beauty. Its about war, poverty, and oppression to the women. The first imagery I remember to this point is where she describes the girl she saw working in the rubbish heap "it was a girl about my age . Her hair was matted and her skin was covered in sores," (pg.81). This to me potrayed how poverty is to children in their country. Malala well explained how she looked, what she was doing, and the where, making this shocking to the reader and unforgettable. Another vivid imagery I experienced was how Malala described how she looked after being shot. How she couldn't smile because her mom would be in pain by looking at her, " My left eye bulged, half my hair was gone and my mouth tilted to one side... so when I tried to smile it looked more like a grimace," (pg.291). This to me reminded me how the Taliban were capable to shot a girl only to prevent education.

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  31. In the book A Long Way Gone there are so many different detailed parts. The first one that stuck out to me was when he has to push the wheel barrel with a dead body in it and many others around him in his nightmare. Just having to think about that makes me sick. The next scene that had stuck out to me was when they were walking and Ishmael seen a man with his brain hanging out of his head but he was still alive and his intestines were still throbbing. Lastly the other one that stuck out to me is the over all drug use to so young of children. I mean at this time Ishmael is only 13 and hes already being introduced to cocaine and marijuana and other pills that he is taking all at the same time. These all stand out to me because when i was this age i couldn't even imagine going through these kids of things and being strong enough to make it through them.

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  32. in the book the kite runner the author is very descriptive in almost all of the parts. some times a little more than one would like for example of when hassan got raped and the author describes the looks on his face and the blood on his pants and the horor that follows amir his freind that let it happen

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  33. In the book Night the author does a good job taking his words and putting a picture. while you are reading the book you get all these thoughts and images in you mind of what it would have been like to live through the holocaust. I know one part in the book that really got me thinking and imagining what I would have been like if I went through it was when they were all on the wagons getting transported at the end of the book. all the people that were dying or even dead they would just through there bodies out and some of the people that were alive were happy about it and they were fighting people for food, there was a son that bet his dad of a piece of bread. that just put an image in my head and I couldn't believe that happened.

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