That was a very good story. I have just finished Nemats “
Secondhand Bookseller”. You could really feel the passion in her words. She was
very detailed when describing the secondhand book store. You could tell that it
played a huge part in her life. She made you paint the scene in your head. It
is amazing how just from one story you can learn so much about a person. Who
they are, what they like and dislike, you could go on forever. It is always
nice to learn things and to be able to look into someone else’s life through
there words. She could have told that
story many different ways and the out come to the readers would have been
different. Maybe she would not have went into so much detail describing the
book store and how she traded her pencil box with the magnetic latch and
scented eraser for money to buy the sequel to her book. We would have never got
that picture in our heads. I feel that was a very well told story.
I know, right! The story was so incredibly vividly set out. When she was explaining the heat outside as she walked to the bookstore for the very first time, I felt like I could actually feel the heat and the stinging of sweat in her eyes. When she was describing the setting, I almost felt as if I was in her place, walking through my home town to different buildings such as the bookstore and my home. The author really really succeeded in her explanation of the characterization and the multiple settings of the story. I really hope that I can also describe the setting, characters, and events in my paper as well as Nemat did. The fact that she can actually take the reader to a new land and, between her verisimilitude-like descriptions and chronological structure, can literally place a reader in the setting of the story completely makes me wonder. How in the heck can she do that? It was almost like she knew that we all felt the same exact feelings she felt during the story at some point in time, and then proceeded to explain said emotions in a way that any type of reader would understand. Basically, after reading the narrative, I am just hoping that I can use what literary aspects I learned to assist me in making my paper better over time. The author definitely laid out the setting and events of the story in the best way possible. Glad to see someone else noticed the plentiful amount of vivid descriptions!
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