Blog Post #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 Ishmael Beah's autobiography A Long Way Gone there are many brutally explicit parts. One that always sticks out to me is near the beginning of the book when Ishmael and company are hiding underneath a deck of some sort while their village is being attacked. While they are hiding they see a mother carrying her dead baby spayed with bullet holes on her back, but she still carries her. This scene without it saying any words has so much emotion in it. Another scene that sticks out to me is when Ishmael and company are trying to escape from a village. As they are running through this empty field with many mothers, father, and children dodging RPG missiles and machine gun bullets. This paints a bloody image of the not so lucky people that just couldn't get away fast enough. However these are two of the things that actually hooked me to this book. I am glad I stuck with it.
ReplyDeleteIn my book a lot of images like those are drawn too. Elie my author talks about walking among the dead just like your character has seen. The picture of mothers and babies wounded also gets recognized in my book as well.
DeleteIn sounds like your book went into a lot of details because of the images that you are picturing in my mind just from a few sentences of describing the book. This sounds like a good book but it sounds very sad at the same time.
DeleteThat sounds like a page turner, but a sad one. It sounds like they do an awesome job at making the scenes very vivid for you, like if you were actually really there!
DeleteI read the same book and 100% agree with you that a long way gone has a variety of brutal parts. Ishmael goes into great depth and detail to make sure that the readers have a good image of went he saw through his experiences. Even though he had some gruesome experiences, he could overcome his fear of his memories and tell the world about he went through with a lot of details to paint good images. I have a lot of respect for him to survive this war and live to tell his story.
DeleteI agree these vivid images hooked me to the book as well. It made me want to know if Ishmael made it out alive.
Deletethat is a part that hooked me also because it really showed what was happening to people there
DeleteThese scenes definitely left their mark on me, and made me see just how bad this civil war was.
DeleteThese parts stood out to me too. I can picture them but I can't even imagine how a 12 year old boy would cope after seeing that.
DeleteThe vivid imagery in the beginning of the book is what hooked me because of how a 12 year old could go through all of that.
DeleteI agree with what you said about getting hooked to the book because of the detail. If it wasn't for detail that Ishmael used the book wouldn't have been as good. I am also glad that I chose A Long Way Gone.
Deletethese were some scenes that stuck with me as well. Also I am glad that I chose this book and glad with the detail Ishmael put into it.
DeleteThere are many scenes from my book that will stay with me forever. The first one is towards the beginning, when Moishe comes back and tells Elie (the main character) that they were throwing babies up in the air and using them for target practice. I picture SS officers standing in front of a hole, one throwing a crying baby up in the air wearing rags, and the other one with a gun shooting in and watching it fall in the hole. This was so hard to read, this would never happen now in the United States and if it did it would be all over the news. I knew going in that people were killed but I never pictured what they did to babies. Mothers gave birth to babies and hardly were able to spend time with them. The second scene that will stay with me is the part where his father was slapped for asking for a bathroom and Elie just stood there and watched it. In this Scene I imagine, Elie just sawing blankly at his father while he asks a SS officer where he could fine a bathroom. Then the SS officer looks Elie father up and down and hits him so hard that he falls on the ground. Then I picture his father looking at him and then he crawls away back to his barracks. Elie is still standing there replaying what had just happened. This sticks out to me because if someone I loved was hurt like that I would stick up for them no matter what happened to me.
ReplyDeleteI as well read Night and having read the babies being thrown into the air and used as target practice really opened my eyes. I agree that as the United States we should have done something more, and sooner. It is very hard to imagine that someone would witness this too.
DeleteI read Night too and I remember crying during this part because of the book because I love babies so much and all I was thinking of that whole time were my little baby cousins.
DeleteI wish I read Night, that sounds like such an interesting book. Your author must do an excellent job with their word play if they are making that big of an impact on you.
DeleteThis was a very difficult part of the book to read. It is hard to imagine that anyone would treat a poor innocent baby like they do.
DeleteI can paint vivid images in my head of the scenes you described. That sounds like an extremely good book. The scenes you described are very touching. I'm glad he was able to share his life not matter how hard his life was. The images make it feel like you're watching a movie.
DeleteI also read night, and that was also one of the vivid images I saw also, although i pictured it a little differently I too think we should have done something quicker.
DeleteI also read night and I remember struggling to read what happened to the babies because it was unimaginable and I also think we should've done something quicker than we did.
DeleteIn the book Night it is very hard to imagine that someone could be going through so much like that. One of the images that sticks out to me the most is when the sirens go off and there is food left in the pots on the middle of camp because it was abandoned by the cooks. He crawled in the dusty dirty ground, just for a taste of food. He looked at his reflection and screamed. I can picture this old man seeing a reflection that he does not recognize and wondering who is that skeleton staring back at him? I think Elie uses as much imagery he can without giving away too much of his past. I think that if anything he does not try to give too much away because it is very hard to talk about. Another image that stood out to me the most is the train cars with bodies of frozen men sitting inside them. He explained very well that they were huddled up 100 men, with no roof over their heads the snow would fall on their skeleton bodies. Men would fight over bread and some would just not have the energy to even move. I can picture this very well because I see Elie sitting there in awe explaining this fight within himself to stay alive. He uses a lot of personal knowledge of the events to briefly explain what he went though. There was a lot of details left out of the story just for the sake of the authors mentality, but I believe he does the best he can explaining the events.
ReplyDeleteI agree it can not be easy to relive everything he went through. He fought so hard to stay alive and to be free after the war just to relive it all again. It bugs me that we never found out if he found out if he mother and sister lives.
DeleteSounds like your author did the best he could to go into depth and use as much details he could to paint images in the reader's head. It's hard believe that he screamed when he saw his reflection because he didn't recognize himself. In my book a long way gone my author goes through similar experiences and also does the best he can to go into depth to paint an image in the reader'r head. It's terrible that the authors had to experience these horrific events.
Deletesounds like the book has lots of images that relay make you think about what relay happened to the Jews.
DeleteIn Night it can be hard to imagine what it would be like in this situation because times are so much different. If we were in this situation it would be all over the news and people would be their phones to tell others about what is happening to them or others around them. Although it is hard to imagine their are a few images that stick in my head such as how skinny they were, they were pretty much just skin and bones, the pile of people, dead and alive that they have to run over while going to move camps, and the beds, I can just imagine on bed on top of the other barely enough room for a person to fit in the bed. I understand why he does not paint more pictures in your mind but then again it can be hard to picture things because he does not describe very well.
ReplyDeleteIt is really hard to imagine what those people went through. I know when I read this book a couple of years ago the parts that you described I still think about them at random times. Hard to forget things such as the author depicts.
DeleteYou are right if this where to happen in the world today it would be all over the news and there would be so much going on. But back then they did not have the tech that we have today if they did i think it would have been a lot easier for some families because then parents would no if they children were alive or vise visa.
DeleteI understand why he didn't paint more pictures. It must've been very hard to share. You have to relive the terror. I like how he described what he and other looked like and what everyone was going through at the time. It is touching. It's sad to know the horror they had to go through even as young kids.
DeleteThis book to me was pretty easy to see just because I have seen so many pictures on the internet. You can automatically visualize them being thin and maybe also some concentration camps.
DeleteI get why he didn't describe much for images because it was pretty hard to think about it. The part mentioned about him describing the people is interesting, but also mind blowing and hard to think about because you how they must feel.
DeleteI agree with you all the way, but I also think if he would have taken a little more time to write the book he would put a better image in your head.
Deleteim reading a long way gone and it sounds like my book in the way they view survival
DeleteIn I Am Malala, there are many parts where Malala's word play in the book, makes scenes come to life. One that sticks out to me is in the beginning of the book in Chapter 8. Malala stated, "Mullahs from the TNSM preached that the earthquake was a warning from God. If we did not mend our ways and introduce shariat or Islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come." I thought that was interesting because it vividly talks about the fear tactics that the Swat Taliban used to gain a following in support of their brutal government. They focused on people's fear of disaster, particularly in the middle of a terrible earthquake that devastated the towns and left many of them with nothing. It was up to people like Malala and her father step up make it clear to the people of Swat that they did not have to live this way. Another scene in the book that stood out to me was in Chapter 17 when Malala said, "As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls like her. This was the war I was going to fight." This stuck out to me because when she was speaking out for education, Malala was never motivated by a desire for fame or fortune. She knew that she had grown up fortunate to be able to attend school and learn, while many other girls around her did not have the privilege of receiving an education. It is moments like these when she remembers what she is truly fighting for, and why it is all worth it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I could see throughout the book what she was standing up for and how much education meant to Malala. I also agree the scenes came to life because Malala did a good job describing what her surroundings were like.
DeleteI agree also, Malala never did it for any fame or fortune, she did it because that is what she believed in and that was all that mattered to her. That is why I loved this book so much because there is so much self determination and courage and bravery in all characters in this book.
DeleteI agree, that Malala is very breve and stands up for what she believes in. Malala was very breve when she took that picture of that young girl selling oranges because she could have been with the Taliban. Just like those two guys came out of no where and shot Malala. Malala believed that she could get her town back to normal after the earthquake and she did not give up.
DeleteIn my book A long way gone an autobiography by Ishmael Beah there was a variety of vivid images. One scene that I will never forget is towards the middle of the book when he joins the army. He describes the techniques he used to slice through the captured rebels throats and watch the blood run out and watch the eyes of the rebels roll to the back of their head. Another scene is towards the beginning when Ishmael and his group are in another village waiting to see if their family has survived the attack. A vehicle pulls up and a man gets out to open the door and the lifeless body of his wife falls out of the car. Ishmael paints a great picture of this scene because of specific he gets and how he uses horrific storytelling techniques to paint a bloody image.
ReplyDeleteI agree Ishmael does a great job painting the picture of the horrific scenes throughout the book. He really does a good job creating a bloody image that doesn't always make you want to read because of how graphic it is.
Deletei strongly agree with that he does great painting the picture and making you see what is happening
DeleteThis seems really interesting and graphic, it sounds like the author is very good at painting pictures of what is taking place. I feel that the part about the blood would be hard to read though.
DeleteI agree that Ishmael did a great job of painting a picture for the reader of what he experienced. If he didn't do that it would be harder to be hooked to the book without detail. He makes you experience what he had in his life.
DeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone the author creates a lot imagery throughout the book. In the beginning of the book there is a lot things that are graphic. The two images that stuck out to me were when Ishmael was driving a wheeling barrel with a dead body in it. He was carrying the body in the wheel barrel to bury the body. I can't imagine seeing that many dead bodies everywhere. Another thing that really stuck out to me was when Ishmael was hiding and he saw a mother carrying her dead child over her shoulders and you could see the many bullet holes the child had. That had to be painful to watch that mother carry her dead child. This imagery was in the beginning of the book and that is what hooked me, It made me want to know if Ishmael was going to make it out alive.
ReplyDeleteMy book had similar imagery and also described the dead bodies laying everywhere after the Taliban took control.
DeleteIn "I Am Malala" she paints a few images in your head. When Malala walks outside, all she sees is the Taliban parading the streets with guns. She descried a killing she saw. The Taliban was killing a women and her own family helped hold her down when she was being killed. They would behead people and display it all around so everyone saw. They would leave bloody bodies on the ground so people had to pass them and see the bodies. It served as more of a warning for the people. The people had to listen to the Taliban and do exactly what they say and you won't be killed. The dead bodies on the ground showed that they will kill you if you disobey them. They were considered bad people because they were killed for doing something wrong. The Taliban say that's what they deserved.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe this type of stuff happens in other countries. I mean even just saying they cut off people's heads and show it around, makes me kind of see it in my head.
DeleteMy book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also had the Taliban killing innocent civilians.
DeleteThat sounds a lot like my book.
DeleteSadly Pakistan goes through lots of unnecessary killings and violence. I think almost any violence like this can put imagery into your mind, but the way Malala described it made it so readers couldn't avoid seeing the real happenings in other countries.
DeleteMy book, The Kite Runner, as well had the Taliban killing people that didnt do anything to them.
DeleteThis books seems very difficult to read but it also seems like a very good book. I'd love to read it some time and maybe even visit Aschuettes
DeleteOne of the images that have been in my mind is when he explains Tariq's migraines. He explains them as if someone if putting a knife through his head and twisting it through the brain and out the other side. It is detailed enough to the point of where I can picture that happening and see him in such pain. There is also the description of the destruction done from the war. He made is so that Laila was happy her father wasn't around to see the destruction of all the beautiful buildings around them. With the words he used, I just see the images I've seen on the internet of "after war" towns in other countries. He definitely used a lot of imagery in this book. He used a lot of detail in the things he was describing and that caused me to imagine what it could look like. I think he did an absolutely amazing job with the imagery in this book.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree the way they explained it was on point I'm glad the author didnt just say it hurt alot and it was to much to bare
DeleteA Thousand Splendid Suns had really good imagery. I pictured the kolba, which was Mariams childhood home and she described how dark and worn it was, along with all the furniture. The next thing the author described really well was when Mariam killed Rasheed with a shovel. I could imagine Rasheed trying to choke Laila and Mariam saving her by killing Rasheed. And then the best imagery in the book was Laila and Tariqs new home. It was one of the first times in the book where something was happy and bright. This left the book on a good note instead of Mariams death.
ReplyDeleteI agree it sounds like your book has good imagery. I love books like that and you can just picture everything.
DeleteI also read A Thousand Splendid Suns, and i thought the imagery was super vivid. I love picturing Tariq and Laila's new home because the author makes it sound so beautiful.
DeleteThat book sounds like it has some really good imagery throughout your book. I wish that I could have read that book. My book also has some good imagery it is also pretty graphic and vivid.
DeleteThis seems really interesting it sounds like the author is very good at painting pictures of what is going on in the book. I love books with happy endings.
DeleteKhaleo Hosseini does a really good depicting the horrors and pains of Afghanistan and the people there. the scenes about the rockets raining down on the city, or the snipers casually shooting random civilians from the mountains, or the pain laila went through delivering Zalmai. the fact that he is a doctor and has visited Afghanistan really helped him bring these images to life. He was very descriptive and creative in his writing. he doesn't just say that rockets were often fired, he says stuff like " it wasn't so much the whistling itself, laila thought later, but the seconds between the start of it and impact. the brief interminable time of feeling suspended. the not knowing. the waiting. like a defendant about to hear the verdict." The book holds you in a rapture at those points and makes you empathize with the people.
ReplyDeleteIn The Kite Runner a few images I pictured were when Amir witnesses Hassan get raped. The description was very hard to take,but was very imaginable. Another image I pictured was Amir and Hassan at the kite competition. I also could see the part when Baba is looking at them cheering. The last image I could see was when Amir and Sohrab fly the kite at the end of the book and picturing that Amir running and both of them smiling. I feel that Khaled Hosseini did a pretty good job at describing the stroy and things going on.
ReplyDeletesounds like you were able to imagine the shines in the book very well.
DeleteIn a long way gone one seen that i could really picture was when ishmael seen a van coming down the road as it got close it had bullet holes all over it and the driver got out and he had blood all over him and his family in the back was shot and killed that was one of the first moments i realized what the rebels were doing. another moment was when a women was walking with a baby on her back. the baby was shot and killed and she was shot but she continued to carry her baby with her. it crazy what he is seeing in his life time and what he has had to do .
ReplyDeleteThat shocked me when I read that.
DeleteThis was one of the first scenes in the book that introduced you to the gruesome things the rebels were doing and i think the author did that on purpose so the reader develops hatred for the rebels just as Ishmael started to after him seeing what horrible things they are doing.
DeleteI agree this part was vivid to me as well
DeleteI agree with you on how crazy things are especially the part with the family in the van because just seeing that would make me break down instantly and if I was Ishmael it would make me think of my family right away and what could of happened to them.
DeleteIts crazy to think of how many families were destroyed like the family in the van. and how many innocent people died.
DeleteWow that's crazy! its insane how good we have it around here.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone, Ishmael creates his imagery by using a lot of graphic descriptions of what he saw. In one part, Ishmael and some other people sneak back into the village they where taking refuge in after it was attacked. While sneaking in, they saw bodies laying on the ground, some had been shot in the head and some had their hands, feet, and genitals cut of and put into a pile. Another part of the book that used imagery was when Ishmael was going through the village that his family was supposedly residing in after it was attacked and burned down. Ishmael described the chard remains of the people that where in the village as reaching for their heads and others were curled up like a child in the womb. Ishmael's imagery is vivid because he did not what to remember it fully and to give the reader a glimpse of what he saw back then.
ReplyDeleteI felt that these scenes were very hard to read especially the one with his family. you could feel the pain and heartbreak that Ishmael was going through.
Deleteyes they were very hard to read but just imagine watching this unfold right in front of you at the age of 12 14 years old.
DeleteI agree with you about Ishmael using a lot of graphic descriptions of what he saw because he made me feel some of the pain he felt and even grossed me out on some scenes but I could not imagine seeing this in real life right in front of you.
DeleteOne of the scenes I remember vividly is when Ishmael is in rehabilitation, when he is starting to recover he would use water taps and see blood instead of water, and would wait to drink until the blood disappeared. Another scene is when Ishmael cuts a prisoners throat in a zigzag motion, this scene is often repeated in his nightmares after he recovers from the war. These scenes are just so vivid to me because it shows his recovery, and what he went through, and just how much he regretted everything he had done while in the war. It is also that much more vivid because the author actually went through these things, and that just makes it more real.
ReplyDeleteI also think that the zigzag scene left an impact, but the scene where Ishmael and the other boys had to walk on the hot sand barefoot and how much detail the author went into, made me have to take a step back and remember that a 12 year-old kid went through all this.
DeleteI would have to agree with the water tap part. The book is so descriptive especially with blood that he would see it instead of water. It is crazy how well Ishmael did in the rehabilitation. He held his temper and behaved himself.
DeleteIn the book, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael sees many graphic things. A few scenes that stick out in my mind are when he is walking through the village and sees the mangled body parts lying on the ground. Another one is after he and his group were attacked by a village and took their shoes, the boys didn't understand why they had done that. As they started walking across the sand, the sand burned the bottoms of their feet. Ishmael does good job depicting the pain that they were in as well as showing how miserable they were during this time. The author does a good job with the scenes because he shows the emotion and the pain of the boys. He gives detail into what they see and are going through which at time, can make it difficult to read.
ReplyDeleteI read the same book and I agree that does a good job because he makes the reader feel like they are Ishmael and you can kind of feel what he is feeling. I chose the sand one to because that one really caught my eye. I like the other one you picked because that one really describe the conditions of about every village.
DeleteI agree with you, Ishmael's description of him walking on the sand barefoot in the hot sun made it difficult for me to read. But that's not the only time that I had to stop reading because something gruesome happened. I think that the author does a good job at going into detail, no matter how gruesome it is.
DeleteI read the same book and I agree with you that he describes a lot of graphic things and makes it difficult to read at times.
DeleteMy novel, A Long Way Gone, has many dark and brutal scenes. From the first day this image has been stuck in mind, don't read on unless you have a strong stomach; in the first chapter of the novel, when Beah and his friends are hiding from the Rebels, a woman runs by them carrying a baby. But the baby has bullet holes in it and the mother has been running with a dead baby. This is the one point in the novel that I had to put my book down for a few seconds. I've read novels where teenagers and adults have died, but I've never had to read about a dead baby in such gruesome detail before, and I hope that I never have to again. Another event that I can envision is when Beah lives in the woods alone for a month. Beah describes how he mad a hoe in the trees, ate fruit he had never seen before to survive, have a water stream to bathe, wash his clothes, and drink. He even leaves a hidden trail so that he doesn't get lost and no one will be able to track him. I felt like I was there, looking at the environment and figuring out how I was going to use my surroundings to survive. It was very interesting to visualize how a 12 year-old figured out how to survive in the wilderness on his own.
ReplyDeleteDearest Chase, firstly, what hoe was he mad at, and secondly, I loved reading Long Way Gone and I am glad that you did too!
DeleteDearest Chase,
DeleteI agree this book is very gruesome and hard to read. However, I do not remember a hoe that he was mad at in the tees. I also thought it was easy to imagine what he was going through by the way he used imagery throughout the novel.
i agree i thought the mother holding her dead baby was a terrible image to get out of my head
DeleteIn the book night, Elie does a great job of creating an image of multiple different things through out the book, and i believe that its because he was telling it exactly how he saw it when he was there. When they got into Auschwitz and seen the chimney for the first time it was like you were standing right there looking at it also. they were still standing in the train looking through the cracks and the most they could see of it was the flames. "We stared at the flames in the darkness. wretched stench floated in the air. This sent chills down my spine when i read it and could see the flames in my my while be packed in a cattle car with all the other people. The second time they were running away from the army front in fear of the Germans being caught. They were riding a train to the middle of Germany, and had stopped in a small German town. the people in the town thought nothing of it they were used to seeing Jews like this. "One day we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. there was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. the worker watched with great interest." I am still visualizing this scene as i type this, i can seen fifty men all very skinny you can see their bones wrapped up in plenty of clothes, and bald all trying to fight for a piece of bread crust, some even killing others for it; all while a worker sits outside and watches.
ReplyDeleteI am reading A long way gone and there are a lot of graphic imagery that is hard to forget and so gruesome I can not even imagine how Ishmael had to experience these experiences. One of the scenes was when Ishmael was passing through the burnt villages he said "I had passed through burnt villages where dead bodies of men, women and children of all ages were scattered like leaves on the ground." This is so vivid and and it really gives you an accurate representation about how many people the rebels killed with out giving a specific number. The other scene involved a mother and her baby and it shows how the rebels slaughter anybody in their way with no care. A women caries her baby on her back. Blood was running down her dress and dripping behind her, making a trail. Her child had been shot dead as she ran for he life. The mother now has to live the rest of her life knowing that her own baby saved her from a bullet that could have ended her life.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree that these scenes that they are extremely vivid. For his age he handled these situations like a champ. They were so graphic that I do not think you would be able to ever forget about it. An he already had many nightmares about his experiences like these ones and I bet he will have more in the future.
DeleteI would agree with ben. for his age it is crazy that he is going through all this. most kids wouldnt be able to handle a gun at his age. and all the things he did he has to live with and its crazy it happened so young
DeleteThis seems like the character went through a lot and by the sounds of it I think it's crazy with how well he handled everything at such a young age.
DeleteIn I am Malala at the beginning of the book I could just imagine how small the house her parents first lived in and started their family in. It was easy to see how run down it could be and what the surroundings would have looked like. Through out the book Malala went into detail a lot on the war, so that gave me a lot to imagine how things looked like. When she talked about the Taliban I just imagine all of them looking like Osama Bin Laden. The part of the book when she got shot you can just feel the pain she went through from how she described everything that happened to her. The author accomplished this task by how well everything was described and how everything is detailed.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Any reader would definitely feel the pain Malala has went through, and her family's pain as well!
DeleteI read A Thousand Splendid suns, and Malala's house sounds a lot like my main character's house. The details sound similar because Laila, one of the main character, loses her brothers fighting and her parents in a bombing.
DeleteI am also reading Malala and I guess I have never really realized the little things that are also very visual like something simple as the small house they lived in.
DeleteI read A Long Way Gone and just like your author he described things very well and extremely detailed, at times maybe a little too much detailed.
DeleteI agree with Samantha, in A Long Way Gone the scenes are very graphic. Sometimes to graphic that it is sometimes hard to read it.
DeleteIn I am Malala, the author does a fantastic job to put imagery into readers head. It lacks in some not very interesting parts, but is vivid during traumatic events. An example would be when Malala described "The Bloody Square." This makes me see endless violence among the innocent. "The bodies would be dumped in the square so that everyone would have to see them on their way to work" (147). When you read this you can just imagine the smell and the sorrow that they went through. Another part in the book was when Malala was admitted into the hospital in Britain. I see her parents terrified, and Malala confused and laying in her hospital bed. If you ever had a sad moment in your life where your parents come together to hug you, that's what imagine this part as. "They hugged me as they held back tears" (252). Malala gave a perfect description of the pure emotion in that moment.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very traumatic and also hard to get through. All though your book sounds very interesting and a good book to read. The imagery also sounds great throughout your book.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone one of the images that I will always remember is when Ishmael is hiding and the village is being attacked by the rebels and the mom is carrying her baby that was shot multiple times on her back and even though the baby is dead she still carries her with her. Another would be is when Ishmael is going to the village that he thinks his parents and brother is in and he almost gets to the village and the rebels attack and set the village on fire with everyone in it. This is so vivid to me because of how Ishmael describes it, it's like your there along with them watching it happen.
ReplyDeletethis was a really power scene that could really move a person. The detail in this book is incredible.
Deletethat is some very powerful and very sad imagery
DeleteIn my book a long way gone there are a lot of gruesome scenes and most of them all stuck out to me and caught my attention but the first one that really got me hooked was when ishmael beah was hiding with a group of others when the rebels attacked the village he was in and he seen a mother carrying her only child that was shot dead with many bullets that left the baby with bullet holes all over its face. Another scene in the book that caught my attention and even grossed me out was when ishmael beah was traveling and he found an empty village with peoples bodies chopped to pieces and put in piles and it was everything from arms and legs to even genitals. I want to know how this 12 year old boy can see this and keep going and fighting for his life without breaking down because I have a younger brother that is 11 and he breaks down and cries when he cant play the Xbox so I couldn't imagine how disturbing this was for ishmael beah.
ReplyDeleteI read A Long Way Gone to and our Author really gives us some tough imagery for the readers. I also thought it was supper cool that you could relate to Ishmael and your brother. I could do that because I don't remember being 12 and you can connection to your brother. This made me laugh because I was probably the same way and it shows how tough Ishmael was.
DeleteMy Author Ishmael Beah uses a lot of imagery in his book and makes you feel like your there feeling what the Characters are feeling. One event that I really remember is when they are walking on the hot sand that was literally burning their feet and skin was peeling off their feet. I walked on hot sand before that didn't burn my feet I could imagine how hot the sand had to be to be burning their feet. Another one is When Ishmael is at his uncle Tommy's home and he starts going to school again and gets out of war and thinks he is safe. Then Freetown gets attacked by the rebels and you can see the fear on his face and the frustration that he can never escape the war. He has to hold his uncle in his arms as Tommy dies and he just met him and started trusting his had to be hard and you could feel the emotions in the room. Everyone Ishmael gets close to dies or gets taken. He has had a rough childhood and I could not imagine being in his foot step and having to do what he had to do.
ReplyDeleteMy author Khaled Hosseini does an amazing job using imagery. When reading A Thousand Splendid Suns i felt like I was with Mariam and Laila. I think my favorite part of the book is when Laila tells Tariq about what Khadim did, and then Tariq just rips his prosthetic leg off and starts beating Khadim with it. He's so protective of her, it's really cute. I also think it's hilarious because Khadim was just making fun of Tariq, and now here Tariq is kicking his butt. Another favorite part of mine is in chapter 21 where Hakim takes Laila and Tariq to see the giant stone Buddah sculptures. He tells Laila that he brought her mother there once upon a time, before her sons left for war. This is one of her father's favorite place, and the fact that he brought Fariba there to share the experience, says to me that he geniunely loves her.
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds like an amazing book and that you had some good things that stuck out to you in the book.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone Ishmael uses a lot of detail in some scenes he describes. One of the scenes that stick out is when they are running through the clearing and people are getting shot. This stood out to me because he says a RPG caught up to one of them and killed him. He also says a second hit the man and caused his remains to sprinkle in the air like rain. This scene was hard to forget because of how gruesome it is. Another scene is when the mother was carrying her baby on her back and it had a lot of bullet holes in it. He says that there was a trail of blood dripping down from the baby. This scene had so much detail that it was hard to read. These images are so vivid because he is the person who saw it in real life. Ishmael did a great job of handling everything that happened to him. If I was him I would have no idea what to do if I saw these things.
ReplyDeleteIn the book a long way gone they did a very good job with imagery the book did a very good job describing when they were in the village seeing people burn in the streets describing the smell and later saying how dogs began to eat the body of the dead people
ReplyDeletethat kinda sounds like my book and how they describe it into details and how one person in my book died in my book to.
DeleteIn the book a Long Way Gone Ishmael does an outstanding job of using imagery.There are a couple parts were I could actually see what was going on. The first is when Ishmael watched the Rebels chop all his fingers except his thumb off a messenger and branded him with RUF. It was so graphic that I could see it and I remember it because it shows that the Rebels were not messing around. The next is when Ishmael was in the competition to slit the guys throat and kill the guy the fastest. I can see it because the words were so descriptive. When I read what happened I knew that Ishmael had changed dramatically. In the end A Long Way Gone was a pretty good book.
ReplyDeleteI am reading I am Malala and some images that really stood out to me was the part when Malala would be in her house and she could hear gun shots and bombs going off in her hearing range. That really made me almost hear the gunshots going of outside the school. Another one was when they were talking about Malala's grandparents village where sometimes in the winter it would get so cold that some kids would die. That basically brought me to the scene and I could feel the cold winds coming from the mountains.
ReplyDeleteI am Malala sounds like a great time and a joy to read even though it also seems like a horror story almost.
Deletei agree with marcus it sounds like a great book but also sounds kind of scary at the same time!
DeleteI think that one of the images that stick in my head from the book is imaging what her home land is like by the way she describes it she describes it as almost like paradise. Another image that i can really imagine is When she was in the hospital in England when they told her that the whole left side of her face because it paralyzed and all the surgery's that she had to go through because i can relate to her because i had a lot of surgery's for my hand
ReplyDeleteusually sugary's are very graphic and detailed, i bet that was interesting to read
DeleteSo in "A Long Way Gone," the two of the scenes that will stick with me for months to come is the time when Ishmael stumbles along the lady that is holding her child. The way that the woman holds her child and cries and the way it is described evokes a lot of emotion but none as emoted as sadness. Unabashed sadness. The second scene that will stick to me is that in the jungle when Ishmael is describing his journey through the jungle, with all the describatory words I didnt think that the color green could be so exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe lady holding her child stuck with me and always will. I think that it is crazy that he made it through the jungle at that young of an age.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone, Ishmael did an amazing job helping readers visualize the tragic events that took place during his childhood. The first tragic event that I remember is when Ishmael is hiding out in a town with others who are running from the rebels. One mother runs into town with a baby on her back. The baby had been shot an had stopped the bullets from hitting the mother. Another image that stuck in my mind was the van that a man had his family in had been shot up. He was the only survivor and he had been shot in the arm. The last image that sticks in my mind is when he is describing how his leg got shot. The details he used to describe the feeling and events that followed amazed me. I could easily visualize how it looked. He did a really great job with all the imagery throughout the entire book. I am very impressed with my choice in reading this book.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Kite Runner i feel like all of these books were very hard to read and hard to put yourself in the characters shoes. I read a lot of vivid moments in my book where i just couldn't imagine what is must have felt like to be that person. When Hassan got raped that had to be the most horrific thing that ever happened. When Amir was getting beat up by Assef it was very vivid when it said he was swallowing teeth and blood. That'd be so gross. That's all for my book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on these scenes being very vivid and I have no clue with how Amir and Hassan could handle everything that happened to them.
Deleteyes I agree with you riley how the book was hard to put down and that stuck out for me to when Amir got beat up
Deletein a long way gone one part of the book really stuck out to me and it was when him and the kids were playing games and stuff before they had to grab ammo and go. the part i remember the most from it is them saying "don't grab to much you still need to run" and that for him i feel like was a reality check. Another part i liked was when in chapter 6 where they are hiding in the bushes them staying quite even thought they thought for sure they were caught. im happy how the author always kept you guessing in this book.
ReplyDeleteIn my book The Kite Runner there were a few images that i could picture in my head one of those were when Amir and Hassan were at Babas house and it was the early morning and gun fire and bombs started going off in the street and the way the author worded it made you seem like you were there. Also another part of the book was when Amir watched Hassan get raped just the description of that part was not really appropriate but it was imaginable.
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time seeing that, I have a hint of that but it's hard for me to see it clearly, because mainly I havent experienced anything like that so it is harder for me to visually see it.
DeleteIn A Long Way Gone Ishmael painted some extremely horrific scenes. Early in the book when the war is just getting to them he says that parents are carrying their dead children thinking they were alive, a child on a mothers back had been shot and was all bloody, and a family had been shot up in a car. Another time of when he was sneaking out through a muddy swamp and he said there was dead bodies in the swamp. One other time Ishmael explains how he would cut the captured rebels throats and watch the blood. These scenes stick out so much because of how hard it is to even think about doing that. Such horrible things happened with his time in the army.
ReplyDeleteIn my book The Kite Runner there are so many moments where I wouldn't be able to put myself in the characters shoes. Everything that happened is just very vivid and scary. One of those times is when Hassan got raped because I couldn't imagine myself getting raped and it would be horrible. Another one of those moments is when Amir was punched in the mouth with Brass Knuckles by Asif. Amir had blood flowing out of his mouth and he was almost swallowing his teeth. With those moments that happened I couldn't put myself in that situation because with how gruesome and gross it is. I have no clue with how Amir and Hassan were able to battle through those terrible moments.
ReplyDeleteIt's also hard for me to picture how I would handle the situations that Eliezer was forced into during the Holocaust. Seeing his father brutally beaten and one-hundred other things he's seen and heard, is just astonishing.
Deletemy book was pretty gore filled i admit so i very much agree with you on that.
DeleteIn Night the main character Elie has gone through some very traumatic stuff throughout the book. An image that stuck out to me the most would be when towards the end of the book when Elie had to just sit there and watch his father get beaten without being able to do anything ( 111). Another image that Elie went through would be when he had to run and march in the snow as it was piling up rapidly and his foot was still recovering from surgery and it had busted open but he still had to keep going because that is what he was ordered to (85&86). Both of these images that I described were very vivid and hard to get through because those conditions were so horrendous and I could not imagine getting through.
ReplyDeleteThis was the book i wanted to read most. The scenes you're talking about sound very interesting. That's how i feel about my book too. some of the stories in my book are very vivid, and can be a lot to discuss.
DeleteIn my book "Night," Elie Wiesel describes the horrors of the Holocaust with great detail especially near the end of the book and they were on a train where a man from a near by city thew a piece of bread into the train car and the men started to fight over it tooth and nail because they were so hungry.
ReplyDeleteThis is Jonathan Hermsen,I also read the book night and this part that you describe was so intense that many people died fight for that single chunk of bread.
DeleteIn the book I Am Malala there are a couple scenes that I will not forget. The scenes that stuck out to me was when Malala would seat on her roof and talk about going to the top of Mount Elum and how she wants to go up their just like Alexander the Great did and touched Jupiter. That shows how high Malala sets her goals. Another scene that I can picture is how Malala's Aunts got treated the boys would get cream and tea but the girls could only get tea. In the morning the boys got eggs and the girls got nothing. This is a example of why Malala fights for Women Rights. The main one that sticks in my head is when Malala got shot how the shooter picked her out was because she was not wearing her burqa. Also looking at the pictures in my book of the bus Malala got shot in it is not the everyday school bus.
ReplyDeleteIn my novel Night, there will be many scenes that will stay with me forever. The first one that I won't forget is when Moishe came back to warn everyone what they are doing outside the walls they are in. He was taken out of the town with others and they were walking. They ended up going into the woods and digging up their own graves because the SS officers were ordered to kill them. With this scene, I will remember Moishe telling Elie that they used the babies as targets. With this I imagine the officers killing/ wounding people and waiting till the end to kill the babies. I picture them throwing the babies anywhere in the air and using them as moving target practice for people who might try to run. In the second scene I won't forget, I won't be able to get out the image of his dad slowly dieing and being hit with a club by an SS officer. His father was in horrible shape and he wanted to die but Elie wouldn't let him. He kept trying to give his dad food but all he wanted was water. In the scene I picture, I see Elie laying on the top bunk to be with his dad but his dad keeps asking for water. When Elie kept ignoring him, he wouldn't stop and soon a officer comes in to tell him to be quiet. His father wouldn't listen and was hit with a club to the face. With this, I picture his dad laying there bloody and wishing it would just be over so he can be in a better place.
ReplyDeleteI think that Khaled Hosseini uses very good imagery in the Kite Runner like when he was talking about when Amir went for the walk by the lake and he said “The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze.” I think if he wouldn’t of said that it would of been plain just like saying Amir went for a walk by the lake it just paint a good picture in my head. And another one is when Amir was talking about how his father held his against his big cheat and how it smelled like brut and the morning and how is beard tickle my face that paints a picture of his dad being big.
ReplyDeleteIn the book A long way Gone many images that the author gives you are very graphic and are things that you do not want to imagine, he goes into great detail about being a child in war and describes things that no one would ever want to imagine. Throughout the whole book I had a hard time imagining the things that he described when he was taking over villages and killing the rebels. One thing that he goes into great detail about was when he was shot in the leg and his fellow soldiers went and captured the people who shot him and let him kill them and he described how he watched them suffer. One thing that really changed the mood was when he described it was when he described meeting his uncle for the very first time at the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThis is Jonathan Hermsen. The two main parts of the book Night that really stick out to me where when the father and son fault and the train ride home. The fight between the father and son was over one small piece of bread. They where wresting in the yard after they fault and the son one the father collapsed. Then died from exhausting just sitting there so he basically killed his father. The other part pf this book that really sticks out to me was there train ride.There where 100 of them on the train but these people where so tired and exhausted the only 12 where able to walk off. This just shows how bad the conditions really are.
ReplyDeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone, there are many vivid images that Ishmael told us in his story. A few pictures have stuck with me the length of the book. One is when the rebels killed everyone in a village and threw them in the river, the river was full of so much blood the water stopped flowing. Another would be when he was chased by wild pigs in the middle of the jungle. These pictures are vivid pictures, because they are gruesome and scary.
ReplyDeletei think the river of blood was probably one of the gorest parts of the book i can think of along with the dead baby and burning bodies.
DeleteI agree that it had a lot of vivid images. Just thinking that the blood could stop water is crazy.
DeleteIn the book Kite runner the author would talk about just memories of Amir. During those times such as when he would sit on the hill and read to hazzan, I would imagine exactly that. Just the power of friendship was so strong in the book, and you feel the power of what true friendship is. Another powerful image shown was based of the theme of guilt, I could image the pains of guilt. When Amir was throwing pomagrantes at Hazzan, trying to get him to hit him back, because it hurts him so much what happened between them. I find that we can see things better, if we have experienced what he is going through, We all have had guilt sometime in our lives, and we also have experienced the joy of having a friend. That is why I can see these vivid images so easily. Because although I have not have experienced the exact same, I still know somewhat what he is feeling.
ReplyDeleteIn my book A Thousand Splendid Suns, I thought it had really good imagery. I pictured the kolba, which was Mariam's childhood home and she described how dark and worn it was, along with all the furniture and the uncleanly coldness. The other thing the author described really well was when Mariam killed Rasheed with a shovel. I could imagine Rasheed trying to choke Laila and Mariam saving her by driving the edge of the shovel into his face killing Rasheed.
ReplyDeleteI agree everything has an intensity to it that just sucks you in the longer you read.
Deletethe vision of the dead baby from chapter 3 will probably be burned into my head for bit. id say that the author went into more detail on the imagery when it came to violence and gore though it is a tragic thing to think about it really shows what the author had to go through. the burning of the village in chapter 11 and the dead bodies, and his father being murdered
ReplyDeleteThe one that sticks out the most to me is when the mother and the baby got shot. He described that the baby had bullets hole and blood rushing down its back. The mother just held her baby even though it was already dead. Another one that sticks out to me was during the same scene and when the man drove up with his family. When he pulled up and his family all died in the back of truck. And then he fell out of the truck.
ReplyDeleteIn A Long Way Gone Ishmael talked about some horrific and vivid scenes. In the beginning of the book when the war is reaching his home, he explains that parents are carrying their dead children. A child is on the mothers back and has been shot. One other time is when the rebels killed everyone in the village and threw the bodies into the river, the river was full of so much blood that the water had even stopped flowing. The few scenes stuck out to me most because of how he explained them.
ReplyDeleteIn A thousand splendid suns the book kind of took control of my Imagination when Jalil was described every time I read his name I kept thinking about his favorite jacket l. I even became scared at one point when marriam had her first miscarriage It was a bit traumatizing and when Rasheed Lost his temper and forced her to chew the rocks like he did the rice made me cringe, in get a tooth ache just thinking about it.
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