A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain
My Reflection
A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain is a book of short stories complied by Robert Olen Butler. They are true tales of the life of a few Vietnamese people who lived in the US, particularly somewhere in Kentucky, after the Vietnam War. The writers of these stories use many literary devices to make their story more interesting to read while at the same time getting their point across. A story within this book titled "Mr. Green" uses metaphors, pathos, and theme to get her main idea across which is how her grandfather was condescending to her in a way because she was a woman.
Metaphors ,comparing two things, were used in the story a few times. Most of the time when the grandfather and the little girl were at the flee market looking at the birds. A perfect example of this is when he compares the blackbirds to old women. The text says "They did not need him to prompt their songs. He growled at them, 'You're just a bunch of old women'" From this text you can see how the grandfather would compare the way the blackbirds would make noise to the way women gossip and talk.
Another literary device used was pathos which is when writing makes you feel an emotion such as sympathy or pity for a character in the story. In this tale the grandfather tends to put the granddaughter down a lot for being a girl. In the story there was a part that said "I felt a strange thing inside me, a recoiling, like I'd stepped barefoot on a slug, but how can you recoil from your own body? And so I began to cry" Here, it makes you feel sympathy and/or pity for the little girl as she cries. This is an example of pathos which makes the writing more intense because it adds emotion.
The last literary device that stuck out to me was theme. I understand that theme is used a lot in literature. It is the main idea of the story, what the story is about. The theme of this story was how she loved her grandfather and although he loved her back he was still condescending to her because she was a a woman. The parrot, Mr. Green, that once belonged to her grandfather was something she thought of as the spirit of her grandfather after he passes away. When the bird dies, she feels her grandfather is finally spiritually gone from Earth and has now accepted the fact that her grandfather may have not favored the fact that she was a woman but she herself is now content with it. I feel that theme is important to any story because it gets a point across. It gives the reader a reason to read the story, to learn something they did not know.
The three literary devices used in this story made for an interestin piece to read as well as an emotionally moving one. I feel that the combination of these devices helped me feel what the author felt during the time this happen. Of course, these are not the only litetrary devices used in the story or even throughout the entire book but these ones stood out to me because they were the steeping stones that made this story capitvating and WANTING to read the story.
My Reflection
A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain is a book of short stories complied by Robert Olen Butler. They are true tales of the life of a few Vietnamese people who lived in the US, particularly somewhere in Kentucky, after the Vietnam War. The writers of these stories use many literary devices to make their story more interesting to read while at the same time getting their point across. A story within this book titled "Mr. Green" uses metaphors, pathos, and theme to get her main idea across which is how her grandfather was condescending to her in a way because she was a woman.
Metaphors ,comparing two things, were used in the story a few times. Most of the time when the grandfather and the little girl were at the flee market looking at the birds. A perfect example of this is when he compares the blackbirds to old women. The text says "They did not need him to prompt their songs. He growled at them, 'You're just a bunch of old women'" From this text you can see how the grandfather would compare the way the blackbirds would make noise to the way women gossip and talk.
Another literary device used was pathos which is when writing makes you feel an emotion such as sympathy or pity for a character in the story. In this tale the grandfather tends to put the granddaughter down a lot for being a girl. In the story there was a part that said "I felt a strange thing inside me, a recoiling, like I'd stepped barefoot on a slug, but how can you recoil from your own body? And so I began to cry" Here, it makes you feel sympathy and/or pity for the little girl as she cries. This is an example of pathos which makes the writing more intense because it adds emotion.
The last literary device that stuck out to me was theme. I understand that theme is used a lot in literature. It is the main idea of the story, what the story is about. The theme of this story was how she loved her grandfather and although he loved her back he was still condescending to her because she was a a woman. The parrot, Mr. Green, that once belonged to her grandfather was something she thought of as the spirit of her grandfather after he passes away. When the bird dies, she feels her grandfather is finally spiritually gone from Earth and has now accepted the fact that her grandfather may have not favored the fact that she was a woman but she herself is now content with it. I feel that theme is important to any story because it gets a point across. It gives the reader a reason to read the story, to learn something they did not know.
The three literary devices used in this story made for an interestin piece to read as well as an emotionally moving one. I feel that the combination of these devices helped me feel what the author felt during the time this happen. Of course, these are not the only litetrary devices used in the story or even throughout the entire book but these ones stood out to me because they were the steeping stones that made this story capitvating and WANTING to read the story.
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