Flying Carpets Can you imagine a world where everyone has flying carpets? In the short story “Flying Carpets” by Steven Millhauser is about a man remembering his childhood memories of summer. He remembers that those summer days were long. He shares the adventurous memories that he had with his flying carpet. All these kids share a new toy, the flying carpet. This flying carpet would be similar to a doll or a toy car in today’s reality. This flying carpet is a regular toy for him. He talks about some people going up to the sky and disappearing, wondering where the people would go. He wants to go up to the sky with his flying carpet. Millhauser uses tone, descriptive details, and theme to suspend disbelief. Millhauser uses a tone that is joyful. …show more content…
By using descriptive detail, it catches the reader 's attention. The descriptive detail use in the story makes the audience imagine and believe in this world where flying carpets are true. This descriptive detail makes the audience enjoy the story. “ Below me I saw the shadow of the carpet rippling over the grass; drifting high over the hedge and out over the vacant lot… sunny tall grass… and all was sunny, all was peaceful and still” (262). This shows how Millhauser uses descriptive detail in order to engage the audience into the story. The way that Millhauser says the tall grass… drifting high over the hedge, this allows the audience to create a picture of the adventure that the boy is having with his flying carpet. By creating a picture in the audience 's mind, it makes them suspend disbelief. From my perspective, I imagine the boy riding the carpet over the grass and into the vacant lot. This made me suspend disbelief because I was imagining that I was in the boy’s world. It made me want to believe that flying carpets are real and fun. This descriptive detail made the audience suspend disbelief because the story goes into detail where is the boy having his adventure and what things is he passing while on his flying carpet. Millhauser uses the ability to suspend disbelief by using
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
The way in which the author describes the scene with heavy detail allows for the reader to become more involved in the story mentally. As shown when they were “In a forest mixed growth somewhere on the
“He uses similes to compare the curtains that danced in response to the breeze to pale flags gliding back and forth caught in the wind. The shadow from the curtains on the wine colored rug is related to the image of wind on the
The excessive use of detail is a primary way that Salinger keeps his reader interested in his stories (Kazin 296). At all times in the story Salinger describes something. A prime example of the excessive use of detail is the following:
The author uses short, simple sentences that manage to say a lot in a few words. The author also uses imagery. He also puts in his book references to historical events. These references increase the understanding and appreciation of Billy's story by suggesting historical and literary parallels to the personal events in his life. The novel does not have smooth transitions from one event to the next.
Larson uses imagery to strengthen the reader’s understanding of the density of the scents in the hotel. By appealing to the reader’s sense of smell, Larson causes the reader to imagine smelling the scents so intensely that the reader feels that they are experiencing it themselves. Larson uses the phrases “ebbed and flowed” and “atmospheric tide” to emphasize the continuous cycle of the chemicals’ burning scent. The word “suffused” exhibits a gradual yet thorough dispersal of the odors. Larson uses the connotation of this to make the reader imagine the
The use of description lets the readers know how important this fading moment in Sammy's (spelled it right this time??) life. It illustrates that even after the event happening, Sammy recalls all of what has taken place during the event. This is evidenced by the fact that he remembers so much of what conspired that day. Whether it be the color of the swimsuits, the shapes of the girl's faces, the cans of food they were
For example, according to King, good description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should be finished in the reader’s, and it should only contain a few well chosen details that enhance the story. Aveyard, in her novel constantly crosses the line of over description. At times she pens pages upon pages of just plain description, in this case over description. Although this 383 page novel comprises of useless repetitive descriptions of a character's hair or another character's eyes, a bond between the reader and writer is molded nonetheless. But, due to her descriptive writing style, Aveyard causes more harm than good for most readers as the story’s plot remains at a stand still throughout this uninterrupted cycle of presenting minor details. The acknowledgment of every minute detail definitely slows the pace of the novel as a whole to the point where most readers hopelessly await a faster
The writer uses imagery, because he wants to let the readers into his mind. By describing the scene for the readers, makes the readers fell like they were there. Therefore, it gives us a better ability to emphasize with him.
By the author writing a fictional story about what actually has happened in the same place before captures the reader's attention before they start reading the book. At the beginning he captures our attention by giving us many, but not to many details of the surrounds. Arthur Miller keeps our attention throughout this book by creating suspense enough that we have to keep reading but not to much that we get bored. It may be easy to get lost in books pertaining to history but not in this book, the author mixes in the history with the story by telling us what happened but also keeping our attention with twists and turns from the
Readers often depend on imagery, a literary technique that uses clear descriptions and directs characters to their senses, in storytelling to indicate the critical elements in a narrative. It helps our readers visualize the scene and comprehend the importance of the situation. In my own opinion, a well-written scene can be extremely consequential and thought-provoking with the use of imagery, possibly even more so than a picture. In literature, this method is no different. Authors will depict characters and scenarios in specific detail when they believe that it is essential to the narrative. John Gardner uses imagery to point out a characteristic feature, themes, motifs, and symbols. A creative author paints the reader a picture so that we can visualize the setting, expressions, mood, with crisp details. In Grendel, imagery is used as a
Piper’s use of imagery in this way gives the opportunity for the reader to experience “first hand” the power of words, and inspires the reader to be free from the fear of writing.
The Author uses these examples to give us a way to see descriptive language in short novel.
His initial view is conveyed through the comparison between the Modern World and the Aztec world. The positive imagery of “passing under trees filled with birds” describes the free, peaceful and safe nature of the modern world through the symbolism of birds living in freedom and not locked up in a cage. This is contrasted with the metaphor of “He detached himself almost physically from the nightmare” when referring to the Aztec world shows that it is an unsafe and violent due to the world being described in negative connotations by the protagonist. However he realises that this peaceful world that he lived in was only his imagination. The realisation of his true reality occurs through the imagery of “He realised he was running in pitch darkness…the sky crisscrossed with treetops was less black than the rest” of the Aztec world. Coupled with the motif of smell in his dreams shown through “it was a curious dream because it was full of smells and he never dreamed smells” also reflects the idea that his real world is the Aztec world. The depth of description when describing his dream and the use
Descriptive imagery is also dominant in line 29 “She clawed through bits of glass and brick,” allows the reader to vividly picture the mother frantically digging through the crumbling remains of the church in search of the daughter she holds dear to her heart. Clearly picturing the frantic mother the readers can feel how dramatic the situation is and the devastating, emotional impact it will have on the mother’s life. The descriptive imagery adds to the dramatic situation by allowing the reader to picture the mother and bu...