The Colonel

Both of these stories were good and not to bad to read either. When choosing one to write on I had to go with “The Colonel”, it had so many descriptive imagery and also similes. I love when a poet or author make vivid imagery of what he or she is writing about. It keeps me in the story and also helps me critical analysis it better. The story of “The Colonel” first started with describing the place which was in his house this is true, I see his wife with coffee, and his son went out, the daughter filling her nails. In my mind I can see this as matter of fact I can feel the story unfolding in front of my eyes. This is a really good vivid image the composer gave us. The part that made me laugh was about the steel grate on the windows like a liquor store, back home in Jacksonville 95 percent of homes of grate because of break-ins. So that was another thing I can picture and felt like I was touching it as she was describing it. The gold bell to call the maid reminded me of Fresh prince of Bel-Air with Jeffery was called by Will with a bell. “My friend said to me with his eyes. Say nothing” before southeastern and before I knew Christ there was a rule I followed when I was in a lot of stuff. Say nothing or don’t snitch. The story gave me a lot of flashbacks for some reason. Human ears look like dried peaches, when I read that I looked in a mirror to see if my ears looks like dried preaches because there again the vivid imagery was so strong, it was just there and powerful. The last sentence got me the ears pressed to the ground I must have read this sentence ten to fifteen times trying to find a deeper meaning to get what the writer meant. The only thing I came up with is he did not won’t others to know what he was saying. I am probably wrong in that but oh well. Overall this was a good story and I got a lot of meaning out of it. The vivid imagery and descriptive details are what got my attention the whole story.