Blog Response #7
Imagery is key to capturing the reader's imagination and taking him/her on the adventure within the book. All 4 authors use several different techniques to paint a picture in your mind of the scenes within the plot of the book. Share two or three images that have been captured in your mind through the author's word choice. Why are these images so vivid, and how did the author manage to accomplish this task? Be sure to include specific details of what you envisioned through the author's words.
i see mostly old and raggedy homes in the cities mentioned throughout the book, and then the decent homes that the rich live in. i also see packed streets with street markets and women and men wearing hoods and balaclavas and overall different clothes. as well as the look of the characters in age. Jalil, Rasheed, and Mariam. They are described well in the book
ReplyDeletei am reading a long way gone and it is kind of similar because Ishmael has to stay in villages that aren't so nice, some in bad shape or just completely destroyed, and also throughout the book most people had to scavenge for everything so most of the time Ishmael the main character had clothes that didn't even fit him and everyone had different types of clothes that they could find.
Deletethat is how i see the town in my book thousand splendid sons. the war that is happening i can imagen the war field in the town.
DeleteI agree, I read the book night and I could imagine the concentration camps with very poor living conditions, similar to the cities in your book.
DeleteIn the book Night the author does a really good job at sharing scenes in the book that you can picture from the horrible beating that the Jews got and the different camps you could really picture which camps were better than others. He did a really good job explaining things in the book which made it really good book to read.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how the camps can be better and worse than each other. In my book Malala, she talks about how she has to town hop and move frequently trying to avoid war.
Deletethat makes me picture the time in my book where marine had to chew on rocks.
DeleteI agree Elie does a very good job showing what he seen and went through. Reading some scenes of the beatings made me sick to my stomach.
DeleteElie does explain how badly the Jewish people were treated. Made me feel very sad.
Deletei agree that the author uses very strong vocabulary to show us what he is seeing and manages to put it in such horrific and gory details
DeleteI am reading I Am Malala. One of the first images I can picture from reading this book is Malala standing up in front of a crowd speaking about education and the passion she has about it. Throughout the book Malala does many interviews, and speaks to many crowds. Another vivid image that I can picture from my book is the Swat Valley, where Malala and her family live. In the book, she talks about how beautiful her valley is and the nature she is surrounded by, like the "lush green hills." I imagine, before the Taliban came through, that it is a very peaceful valley, I would like to see what it actually looked like. The last thing I can imagine is the Taliban taking over Swat Valley. I can imagine the once peaceful Swat valley now being filled with terror and fear. I can imagine the shops and schools being closed, and armed men patrolling the streets. I can also imagine the quietness that all the families felt after kids use to play in the streets on the daily. All these images are so vivid because Malala explains it so well throughout the book, and makes it easier for me to comprehend the difference scenes in the book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how you imagine the valley. I could also imagine the valley being completely ruined and trashed too.
Deletei agree with how you say the valley was very peaceful before the taliban came, just the way Malala describes it it sounds very nice, then when the Taliban come im sure everything was destroyed after that
DeleteI agree with you and think that swat valley was a great comminity untill the taliban came around and it became unsafe
Deletein the book night the author shares a lot of detail so you can picture what the living conditions that the jews were living in. some of the imagery that stands out in my mind is where they would sleep, the crematoria, and the fences with wire so they couldn't escape. he does a really good job going into detail which makes the book interesting to read
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very interesting place, I can even picture that in my brain without even reading it. I'll have to read that book sometime, sounds like it is good.
Deletethe way he explains certain things has made the book easier to read and makes it easier to understand what is going on and how badly the jews where really treated
DeleteElie explained stuff good at some points but sometimes he doesn't do such a good job and its confusing.
DeleteIn the book A Long Way Gone, I envision a forest with many men at war fighting each other. I also envision a shack that the men have taken over from the rebels. These images remind me of where they are fighting the war and where he stayed when he captured the abandoned rebels' house. The author made it easy to visualize this because he went into depth about what he described, about a deep forest and an old shack that they have taken over.
ReplyDeleteI am reading "I Am Malala," and our books sound like they have some things similar. In my book the Taliban are taking over Malala's town and I can envision the empty streets and how scared the people are. There is also a lot of fighting going on in my book and I can also envision how scary and how much war is going on. Is your main character living in an old shack in the middle of the forest? Or is that where the fighting is happening?
Deletei am reading a long way gone and even though ishmael wasn't captured he had to stay in villages that were not in the best shape and he had to survive in harsh environments and a few of the places he stayed were previously attacked and looted by the rebels.
Deletesame i am reading a long way gone and every seen where they get scared because they can hear a vehicle and jump in the ditch i can just imagine there harts pumping wihile jumping for there life.
DeleteI see a lot of different things in my book. I see all them in the car on their road trip, and Amire getting car sick and not feeling well. I also see baba graduating and driving around on his free time looking at rich and poor houses. these images are vivid, because as i was reading i would just picture what was going on and comparing myself to Amire getting car sick, because that happens to me sometimes as well. the author describes the characters good in the book.
ReplyDeleteHow come they were going looking around at rich and poor houses? Is your main character wealthy or poor? I can't relate to your book when they just go driving around because in my story the Taliban is taking over and patrolling the streets and people are even too scared to go out of their houses. I can imagine my book is different to yours, but both sound pretty interesting and vivid with images. I can also imagine when your character is getting car sick, because I always get car sick on long rides as well.
Deletei can also see the car and amire geting sick and buba driveing around i can also see there house and how i think it looks
Deletein your book you say they are driving around, in my book they are not able to do such thing because the Taliban are roaming everywhere and they are not safe
DeleteI can picture a lot of different moments from the book Night. Elie does an okay job at explaining what is happening, a lot of the times the book is moving very fast that it can be hard to keep up but when Elie describes the Jewish people being loaded in the train carts I can picture how it was because he describes how little space and food they have. When Elie talked about his infected foot I can picture how gross it looked. When the guards abuse the Jewish men I also picture how hurt they would get because they are extremely unhealthy. These always seem to stay in my mind because it is a very cruel thing that happened.
ReplyDeletei agree there are times the book moves to fast to understand it the language difference also makes it hard at times
DeleteI agree the author explains the book a differently it doesn't always make scene when reading and it gets confusing sometimes.
DeleteI can picture a couple of image in my head from my book a thousand splendid suns. The first image is when Laila go bulled at school and sprayed with a water gun full of unrein i just feel bad for her and i tuff to deal with a bully my older bother bulled me as a kid. The next image that is in my head is when Rasheed is be really mean to Mariam and the kids. the last image in my head is when Mariam mom hanged herself when Mariam left to talk to her dad and Mariam mom said if you leave i will kill myself.
ReplyDeletethat sounds really sad. There were a lot of sad parts in my book too. what else did you connect to the with?
Deletein the book along way gone the author describes a lot of scenes some different some pretty similar throughout the book the common theme i see is war, so he always describes a village in a good way and a bad way most of the time he describes that the village is, trashed, bloody, and crumbling, most of the villages Ishmaels visits have been looted and ransacked so there usually destroyed. another scene he describes is multiple forest, he describes how the trees gives them shade and provides protection and cover from people and the elements. another common theme is just gore and death in general throughout the entire book Ishmael describes the death and the gore and blood that is seen everywhere. and that is just crazy on how much bad stuff he has seen.
ReplyDeletei comleatly agree with you becouse i am also reding a long way gone and some of the stories are crazy like the fact the rebles will force the son and mother to have sex like that doesnt even seem human
Deletethe way your author descibees there book is very simaliar to the way night is described and visuallized
DeleteThe book I'm reading is Malala. The author does a great job describing scenes making it very simple for the readers to picture what's going on. One scene that I picture is the time Malala got shot. The author did a great job describing how she was on the back of the bus and how her mind went blur and her friends sat there in shock while she laid on their lap. Another scene I can defiantly picture is when she was worried about intruders so she tiptoed out and locked the fence and locked the door and shut all of the blinds to keep anyone away from her family. And it defiantly helps out understanding the scenes with the pictures the author provided.
ReplyDeleteCrazy how she was able to live through getting shot in the head
DeleteI find it crazy she was able to take a bullet to the head and she is now around sharing her story
Deletethis sounds like a really good book that you are enjoying its unreal that she got shot in the head and lived
DeleteThis is the same book I read and I agree, when Malala got shot it was crazy how in depth the book went in explaining everything that happened. This was a hard part of the book to read.
Deletei am reading thousand splendid sons. i can imagen the time when marian bared her baby by her self. the way they discribed the way marian broke her teeth made me cring. they explained in gait detail looking in rasheds dresser. i can imagen the time when layla got spraed with pee in a water gun.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it would very painful
DeleteIn the book Night, Elie does a good job at showing his readers imagery of what he seen and went through. Towards the beginning of the book he describes a scene of them throwing little children and infants against a fence and shooting and killing them. That is something I will never forget it is awful what they had to see and go through at that time. Another part I remember very clearly was when Elie's dad was so weak he couldn't move or walk. When the bread was given to him the other older jews at the camp would jump him and beat him stealing his bread. Seeing how people just turned on each other so quickly when they are in similar situations baffles me.
ReplyDeleteI also thought those scenes were very easy to imagine. I wounder how he uses such detail to describe these events after having to live through it.
DeleteNight is a book i've read as well and I agree he is really good with describing what he went through. Also did a good job desbribing what happened to them.
DeleteI didn't read this book but it seems like a hard book to read. What was wrong with his dad that made him not be able to walk? Was it a hard book to finish reading because of all the details?
DeleteI am reading the book Night and one of the images that are in my head are when they say that the babies are used as target practice for the Germans and they are thrown in the air and shot at. It is just mind blowing that someone could do that to another human being on there own. Another thing that i can imagine is how skinny the people looked there skin down to there bones being able to see there heart beat being able to see there ribs there legs not being able to hold up there own body. Its just disturbing to think about.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the same book and thought the same thing. How they could do such a horrible thing to these tiny infants.
DeleteI also could not believe they were just shooting the babies without a care in the world that was disturbing.
Deletei also couldn't believe that nobody cared about the babies being thrown around and shot
Deletei am reading a thousand splendid suns but i can connect it to yours as we each have scenes with death in it and i belive that both of our authors do a great job at portraying it in the book. but in your book the way people die is more messed up then mine. your author dose a great job explaining everything thats happening because he was there to witness it and mine is more fictional then yours and i belive that makes a huge difference.
DeleteElie does a crazy job describing in such detail on how his expreince with the holocaust was
Deletethousand splendid suns conveys its scenery though thorough description of its sets. it describes the bustling market, the dark streets, the ragged houses in a way that conveys enough detail to get a good picture of places in ones mind.
ReplyDeletethat's really cool. in my book the author describes the characters pretty good. is there any thing else in your book that the author describes well?
Deletein the kite runner i see a lot of things one of them i see a house with little stuff in side but it being a 2 story house a vary clean house with a vary upkept yard.
ReplyDeletei agree with seeing a 2 story house, and very clean and organized and a nice yard and you can tell they keep everything keep, and updated.
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ReplyDeleteI am reading night and one thing the visibly stuck out to me at the beginning of the book is when Elli was describing how the Germans were shooting babies and using them for targeting practice is just wild that somebody would even think of that idea. also another thing that stuck out was when he was describing the kid getting hung but since his neck was so small he was slowly getting strangled while everybody has to walk right past him. that was on of the most disturbing scene the book
ReplyDeletethat is also what stuck out to me right away because of how cruel a person can be to another person
Deletein the book The Kite Runner two images that say in my mind is the night that Hassan gets raped. Because the way the author worded the whole part of the book was so intense. another one is I see all them in the car on their road trip to their uncles, and Amir getting car sick and throwing up. These images so vivid, because he wrote it in a way that made feel real. it had a lot of emotion.
ReplyDeletei agree they are vary detaled in them parts of the book
DeleteI agree with I am Malala they give good description to everything that happened to her.
Deletei picture many different scenes in the book I Am Malala, for example when she talks about Swat, and the scenery of it, she explains what it looks like in the summer and spring and how beautiful it is, she talks about not only the land but the water ways as well, i can also vision how scared everyone was when it came to the taliban coming to Swat, just from how she talked about how bad it was and what they did i ca just picture everything.
ReplyDeletewhat does she see in the summer and spring? And also why was everyone scared, and why was it so bad?
DeleteI also think malala loves swat but knows that it is becoming to dangerous for her and her family
DeleteI think Malala wouldn't fight for anything if she didn't love her home.
DeleteI am reading Night, and one of the images I see is the hangings of the people of the four children that messed with the electricity. another picture I see is the officers throwing the infants up as machine gun targets. these pictures are so vivid because how can someone could do these things to humans he accomplished this by describing what they all had seen because they all had to watch the hangings.
ReplyDeleteits scary to put an image in your mind of what surviving through the holocaust was like im sure Elie does a great job of explaining it
DeleteI can connect to this because in my book a long way gone the rebels also kill infants for fun
DeleteMy book a long way gone also use kids as a way to show the brutality of war
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ReplyDeletei am reading a long way gone. but in the book there is a couple of diffrent things that pop into my mind. One is the story of a kid that he went in the attic to go get rice but in the time it took. rebles atacked his house. so he hid it the attic and couldnt do any thing about it. What he heard was the rebbles rapping his 3 sisters and his mom while makeing his dad watch,. then another storie that stickes with me is one the genrol told while trying to get the people to join the army. he said the solders will kill pregnate laides, cut them open take out the babies and cut it in half while making the parents watch.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds very disturbing and like it would take a lot of detail to write.
DeleteI can connect that to my book because in night they were using babies as shooting targets in the air.
DeleteI agree with you how the generals speech was memoribale, he really brought to light the terrible things the rebels were doing
Deletein night elie did a really good job explaining the way they where treated there are a lot of things that where easy to picture in the book like living conditions cattle cars the peoples condition because elie did a very good job with his words and explains things very good so you can picture it.
ReplyDeletein a long way gone, Ishmael uses imagery to describe the brutal scenes that he was forced to witness as a kid. A few of theses scenes that stick in my head include when the rebels captured the priest and tied him to a post to burn him alive. They left his dead, half burnt body there to be eaten by dogs. Another example is when Ishmael was being chased by wild hogs, he was sitting in a tree for almost an hour as the hogs ramed the trunk trying to knock him off of the tree.
ReplyDeleteit really goes to show how different things are in other countries compared to western culture
Deletein a thousand splendid suns khaled hosseini describes much of the imagery of the buildings as old but with vibrant colors, the muslim culture with the fully covered outfits the women wear, and white head dresses of the men spread about on the crowded streets of afghanistan
ReplyDeletethis shows me how different the country is compared to ours
Deleteit is a distinct description makes it easy to visualize.
Deletei agree with you the author dose a great job of explaining the buildings and how the colors on them are but he also dose a great job with the landscapes of the world and how everything looks from the people in the book perspective. he captures everything you need to know in only a couple pages or words.
DeleteIn the book Night, he uses a lot of imagery. One of the images that comes to mind is how he describes the smoke coming out of chimneys from the crematorium. he says that is billows out in thick trendles and I can almost see it. I also saw the the thick snow they had to run through and how it pilled on their shoulders. He used great detail to describe these images and that made them so vivid.
ReplyDeleteHe does go into great detail when he talks about the more gruesome parts and very dull on others to grab our attention.
DeleteIn Night Elie tells us about a boy who had to get hung in front of everyone for doing the wrong thing. The boy was about 8 and his weight didn't let him die easily. So the boy struggled to die and they all watched but if they helped him they were be condemned to death. Another one was when he conveyed the images of babies being tossed into a fire pit to die while not knowing if the babies were alive or dead. He used very specific wording and very detailed descriptions.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book A long way gone and Ishmael does a good job of describing the gore of the book. He talks about people being shot and the blood and the bones sticking out. Something that also adds to the books is he is really good showing emotions through the story. He talks about people cries about dead family members and how he felt going through that with his family.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading A long way gone. One is Ishmael trying to find a way to live in a forest for a month, living off the things given to him from the forest. another is him in a rehab hospital to get him away from the front line in the civil war.
ReplyDeletethat sounds like a place that can be quite vivid if described correctly
DeleteIn Night, the descriptions of the events and places are very detailed. One of these events was described very emotionally when a boy got hung for making a mistake. No one could help him because if they did they would die.
ReplyDeletei am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and in this book near the start a girls mom named nana hung her self on a tree. i could imagine this really happening in my head i could see nana onn top of a hill in the distance hanging from it with a orange/dark sky and i could see marium standing on the path looking up at her. the author did a great job with this imagry by telling us before hand on how the landscape was set up. another part of the book that i could imagine was when laila's house got blown up because i could imagine what the ruble looked like and what i knew before hand like how the ruble piles up and it even gave a good explanation of how the parents died and i could imagine it all.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Night, The first picture the book painted in my head is when they were all loaded up into the cattle cars and they were packed in the cars super tight. The second picture that the book painted in my head was when they hung the kid and he hung there for 30 minutes because he was so light the he could the rope wasn't tight enough around his neck. These images got stuck in my heads because he gave lots of details about it and it was easy to imagine.
ReplyDeletethis book sound like it is really good and that is crazy that he was to light and the rope didnt pull tight.
DeleteIm reading the book Night and the first picture that comes to mind is when they tried to hang a little boy but he was so weak and skinny and light that the the rope didnt even break his neck so he hung there for hours sufficating to dead. the reason i remember them is cause they were discribesed in such detail thgat i cant stop remebering it
ReplyDeleteI am reading I am Malala my author paints really good scenes, growing up in swat valley it is described as a poor country with dirt roads and a small comminity, once the taliban come around it is decribed as the talibian out and prtoling the streets of swat and taking over, malala says she loves her country in the summer and that is is beautiful
ReplyDeleteIn a long way gone, one of the things i vision was when he got shot 3 times in the foot and he was packing his bag with ammunition again bullets began to rain on the village again i vision a bunch of solders raiding the village. another thing that i visualized is when Ishmael and some other boys got taken to the UNICEF compound to save them from fighting in the war. a huge fight broke out started among a few gropes of the boys they had fought for about 20 minits cutting and stabbing each other as the men tried to tare them apart. i could see just a big grope fight.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Night and one of the images that i have stuck in my head is when the Germans threw the Jewish baby into the air and used it as target practice. This scene stuck with me the entire book because it shows how cruel the Germans were to the jews. Another scene that stuck with me is when the main character was on a open cattle car in the middle of winter and the local German people threw bread onto the train and the jews killed over the peace of bread. This also stuck with me because it shows how desperate the Jewish people were thought the book.
ReplyDeletehow could you just see these parts of the book.
DeleteI am reading the book I am Malala. The author did a really good job of describing everything going on from the peaceful valley to Malala getting shot. The first thing that comes to mind is Swat Valley. Malala says it is a very beautiful peaceful place to live but when the Taliban comes around it all get shut down and becomes a very dark place to live. Another thing that comes to mind is Malala standing Infront of big crowds speaking about girls education. I can only imagine how terrifying that has to be but she wanted to do what was right. The author did a very good job writing this book and made it very easy for readers to really get the picture of what was going on.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book I am Malala. The author made everything really visible and describing everything, so it was easy to picture it. Swat valley I imagine that very beautiful especially when the leaves are turning and everything is changing. Malala being shot I picture that everyone is just in shock about everything that just happened, and everyone is freaking out about everything.
ReplyDeleteis there a way for you to relate to that portion of the book.
DeleteI am reading A long way gone and i think of when Ishmael shot the people in the feet and let them bleed out instead of killing them. i also imagine the villages as all crumbly and ruined with bullet holes and body everywhere. the author is very detailed with the images because he lived through them in a first hand experience.
ReplyDeletei am reading a thousand splendid suns and i am picturing how nana hung herself in front of her to prove a point to her that she will actually follow thru on what she says. when Rasheed beats up Mariam and locks her in the shed i can imagine the blood-stained floor and the tools and the darkness with the cold creeping into you
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