Please use this space to respond to each other's posts. You only need to write a post with a minimum of 100 words. You should write about your personal response to 'Grandma's House'. Please ensure that you include your name and ID #.
To author, the childhood of Grandma's house seems very vivid and especial. Grandma's house was jumbled with antique and bizarre things and he depicts these features of the house by 'Showing'. Overall he uses many of sensory words like 'smelling the rain' and thus readers seem to be able to get lucid images of the house. This essay is story about reminiscence of the place of wonderful memories and shows needy but happy childhood of the author.
Over all, my opinion is similar to Mr. Chun's. The author tries to show rather than tell us about her childhood basically by using many sensory images - her memories of sights, smells, sounds, tastes and textures. By using this writing strategy, he effectively conveys his main theme to us; the house is a curious blend of familiar and mysterious treasures, and it guards the memories of many generations.
When I read this essay, I felt that though grandma's house was not so fancy, the author felt so comfortable in that house. Author used various senses to describe grandma's house, especially focusing on describing color of objects, and smell, petroleum smell from refinery as well as smell of the house itself. Also, he characterized the house - as old and somewhat old, worn. But this 'old and worn' made the author comfortable rather than uncomfortable. And as Chun mentioned, the memory was vivid, looking into the fact that author remembered images in detail. In addition, he explained order of house components very vividly.
The writer used not only the description of what she saw at grandma's house but also the description of what she smelt. Describing only the scene of a place is like the writer showing the pictures of the place to readers. However, adding the description of odor to visual description is like making readers walk around the described place with the writer. As readers use more senses at reading, they think the description is far more vivid and realistic so that they can more easily imagine what the writer is saying. The writer uses this way of description to make readers imagine that they are with the writer walking from the front door of her grandma's house to the garden, whole house. And as Mr.Park mentioned, 'old and worn' gave comfortableness, both to the write and readers. With this imagination readers remind of coziness of grandma and her house, warm memory of childhood and yearning of being pure hearted child who appreciates where he or she is.
The writer described her grandma's house by using both subjective description and objective description. She portrayed the house by spatial order, from the front porch to the backyard. Also, in each point of the house, she wrote personal impressions using sensory images, simile and metaphor. As the writer depicted the house not only by using appropriate perspective and sequence but also by using subjective description and vivid images, she can convey the image and show the picture of the house effectively. She used some rhetorical modes such as description and comparison to display vividly the house and express her reminiscences to readers, and it is evident that those are the thesis of the author. Her impression about the house is quite positive due to her many memories even though it was squalid and located in dead-end street. In a nutshell, the overall essay is about the house of the author's grandma and her feelings about it.
It may be easier for a writer to tell readers directly what he or she wants to convey. However, if a writer 'shows' his or her intention not by telling it, readers can understand it further and deeper. In this essay, the writer effectively shows the memory of childhood at grandma's house. In order to make readers concentrate on the story and feel the memory more vividly, the writer describes the house in detail using five senses - sight(color, description of place), sound, smell, touch, and taste. The writer also uses simile and metaphor so that readers catch the image more easily and concretely. Like what Hwang said above, this essay makes readers feel coziness and comfortableness of grandma's house and remind our own grandma's house as well.
When I was reading the first part of the essay, I was not sure what the writer wanted to say about her grandmother's house. However, as I read on, I could feel the coziness in the house and that the memories of her childhood and also her other families life themselves were stored in every corner of the house. This feeling that I felt when I was reading the essay comes from the writing method that the author used. As the people above me have said, the writer shows the reader her grandmother's house and let us feel it with our senses. Using sight and smell, the writer helps us to feel the house better, and understand the author's view and memories of her grandma's house.
The overall theme of this essay is the author's childhood reminiscences at her granma's house. She has a very vivid memory of the house as a curious blend of familiar and mysterious antiques, guarding the precious memories of children. To share her dominant impression of the house, she 'shows' rather than 'tells' us about her memories and feelings. As many students formerly mentioned, she uses five senses-sound, smell, sight, taste and touch- to vividly convey her feelings and impressions to readers. Thus, we readers are to imagine the actual appearance of house and indirectly experience her childhood. Also, she often uses some descriptive teniques, such as simile and metaphor, to help us easily catch her dominant impression out of all the obscure or unimaginable aspects of her feelings.
Author describes the memory of grandma's house sensuously and subjectively using images of five senses. So I could feel ease reading the essay and it even reminded me of my childhood emotions at my grandmother's rural house although grandmother's house is very different from the one from the essay. Also, author uses objective method of describing. Author shows us the sight in spatial order as author remember so that we can imagine the house. This complex use of subjective and objective description gave me sense of reality and empathy.
This essay explains us the author’s grandma’s house, the place where her wonderful childhood memories remain. To explain it, the author doesn’t tell but show the grandma’s house. The exploration to her house starts on the concrete steps before front door. Therefore, we readers read the essay as if we are walking on the steps and open the front door. Like this, the author’s eyes, our eyes explore the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, and so on. In addition, the author describes the rooms, the wall, and the furniture by five senses, not only by one sense, sight. It makes our exploring by reading the essay more vivid.
The author tries to 'show' us recollection of her childhood, not to 'tell'. She uses many sensory words(taste, smell, sight, sound, touch) and many compares. In other words, she uses many similes and metaphors. And by using writer's point of view, the author accomplishes the purpose of making readers feel vivid. It is possible because writer's point of view is subjective. Finally, the author describes every detail of her childhood recollection. It makes readers feel they are in author's circumstance.
This essay makes me smile while I'm reading. To be honest, I have no idea with literature terms so I didn't care these terms. However, I can feel that the author shows us very effectively her childhood memory related with her grandma's house. Her very vivid description of what she felt and experience helps me to imagine her grandma's houst using all my senses. There is no detail explanation of her grandma's character but I can catch it through her description of house like "One-half of the couch was always buried in old clothes, magazines.... sculpture", "In the kitchen, a large Formica-topped table always held at least a half-dozen varieties of homemade jelly.... and anything else not requiring refrigeration, as if the table served as a small, portable pantry", "Grandma's kitchen always smelled of toast,". I'm sure she was very kind, generous, and not strict like my grandma.
To author, the childhood of Grandma's house seems very vivid and especial. Grandma's house was jumbled with antique and bizarre things and he depicts these features of the house by 'Showing'. Overall he uses many of sensory words like 'smelling the rain' and thus readers seem to be able to get lucid images of the house. This essay is story about reminiscence of the place of wonderful memories and shows needy but happy childhood of the author.
ReplyDeleteJungKwon Chun, 2011-12325
Over all, my opinion is similar to Mr. Chun's. The author tries to show rather than tell us about her childhood basically by using many sensory images - her memories of sights, smells, sounds, tastes and textures. By using this writing strategy, he effectively conveys his main theme to us; the house is a curious blend of familiar and mysterious treasures, and it guards the memories of many generations.
ReplyDeleteJungHyuk Lee, 2004-10612
When I read this essay, I felt that though grandma's house was not so fancy, the author felt so comfortable in that house. Author used various senses to describe grandma's house, especially focusing on describing color of objects, and smell, petroleum smell from refinery as well as smell of the house itself. Also, he characterized the house - as old and somewhat old, worn. But this 'old and worn' made the author comfortable rather than uncomfortable. And as Chun mentioned, the memory was vivid, looking into the fact that author remembered images in detail. In addition, he explained order of house components very vividly.
ReplyDeleteYeonHo Park, 2011-12262
The writer used not only the description of what she saw at grandma's house but also the description of what she smelt. Describing only the scene of a place is like the writer showing the pictures of the place to readers. However, adding the description of odor to visual description is like making readers walk around the described place with the writer. As readers use more senses at reading, they think the description is far more vivid and realistic so that they can more easily imagine what the writer is saying. The writer uses this way of description to make readers imagine that they are with the writer walking from the front door of her grandma's house to the garden, whole house. And as Mr.Park mentioned, 'old and worn' gave comfortableness, both to the write and readers. With this imagination readers remind of coziness of grandma and her house, warm memory of childhood and yearning of being pure hearted child who appreciates where he or she is.
ReplyDeleteYuJin Hwang, 2011-10178
The writer described her grandma's house by using both subjective description and objective description. She portrayed the house by spatial order, from the front porch to the backyard. Also, in each point of the house, she wrote personal impressions using sensory images, simile and metaphor. As the writer depicted the house not only by using appropriate perspective and sequence but also by using subjective description and vivid images, she can convey the image and show the picture of the house effectively.
ReplyDeleteShe used some rhetorical modes such as description and comparison to display vividly the house and express her reminiscences to readers, and it is evident that those are the thesis of the author. Her impression about the house is quite positive due to her many memories even though it was squalid and located in dead-end street. In a nutshell, the overall essay is about the house of the author's grandma and her feelings about it.
Hyun-Suk Um, 2011-10858
It may be easier for a writer to tell readers directly what he or she wants to convey. However, if a writer 'shows' his or her intention not by telling it, readers can understand it further and deeper. In this essay, the writer effectively shows the memory of childhood at grandma's house. In order to make readers concentrate on the story and feel the memory more vividly, the writer describes the house in detail using five senses - sight(color, description of place), sound, smell, touch, and taste. The writer also uses simile and metaphor so that readers catch the image more easily and concretely. Like what Hwang said above, this essay makes readers feel coziness and comfortableness of grandma's house and remind our own grandma's house as well.
ReplyDeleteEun-ji Park, 2010-10433
When I was reading the first part of the essay, I was not sure what the writer wanted to say about her grandmother's house. However, as I read on, I could feel the coziness in the house and that the memories of her childhood and also her other families life themselves were stored in every corner of the house. This feeling that I felt when I was reading the essay comes from the writing method that the author used. As the people above me have said, the writer shows the reader her grandmother's house and let us feel it with our senses. Using sight and smell, the writer helps us to feel the house better, and understand the author's view and memories of her grandma's house.
ReplyDeleteSooyeol Hyun 2011-13075
The overall theme of this essay is the author's childhood reminiscences at her granma's house. She has a very vivid memory of the house as a curious blend of familiar and mysterious antiques, guarding the precious memories of children.
ReplyDeleteTo share her dominant impression of the house, she 'shows' rather than 'tells' us about her memories and feelings. As many students formerly mentioned, she uses five senses-sound, smell, sight, taste and touch- to vividly convey her feelings and impressions to readers. Thus, we readers are to imagine the actual appearance of house and indirectly experience her childhood. Also, she often uses some descriptive teniques, such as simile and metaphor, to help us easily catch her dominant impression out of all the obscure or unimaginable aspects of her feelings.
Seo-lin Lee, 2010-10544
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteAuthor describes the memory of grandma's house sensuously and subjectively using images of five senses. So I could feel ease reading the essay and it even reminded me of my childhood emotions at my grandmother's rural house although grandmother's house is very different from the one from the essay.
ReplyDeleteAlso, author uses objective method of describing. Author shows us the sight in spatial order as author remember so that we can imagine the house. This complex use of subjective and objective description gave me sense of reality and empathy.
Seung-I Kim, 2010-10737
This essay explains us the author’s grandma’s house, the place where her wonderful childhood memories remain. To explain it, the author doesn’t tell but show the grandma’s house. The exploration to her house starts on the concrete steps before front door. Therefore, we readers read the essay as if we are walking on the steps and open the front door. Like this, the author’s eyes, our eyes explore the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom, and so on. In addition, the author describes the rooms, the wall, and the furniture by five senses, not only by one sense, sight. It makes our exploring by reading the essay more vivid.
ReplyDeleteJae-ho Bae, 2010-10236
The author tries to 'show' us recollection of her childhood, not to 'tell'. She uses many sensory words(taste, smell, sight, sound, touch) and many compares. In other words, she uses many similes and metaphors. And by using writer's point of view, the author accomplishes the purpose of making readers feel vivid. It is possible because writer's point of view is subjective. Finally, the author describes every detail of her childhood recollection. It makes readers feel they are in author's circumstance.
ReplyDeleteSon-chaeyeong, 2011-13309, prose 2
This essay makes me smile while I'm reading. To be honest, I have no idea with literature terms so I didn't care these terms. However, I can feel that the author shows us very effectively her childhood memory related with her grandma's house. Her very vivid description of what she felt and experience helps me to imagine her grandma's houst using all my senses.
ReplyDeleteThere is no detail explanation of her grandma's character but I can catch it through her description of house like "One-half of the couch was always buried in old clothes, magazines.... sculpture", "In the kitchen, a large Formica-topped table always held at least a half-dozen varieties of homemade jelly.... and anything else not requiring refrigeration, as if the table served as a small, portable pantry", "Grandma's kitchen always smelled of toast,". I'm sure she was very kind, generous, and not strict like my grandma.
Dahui Park, 2008-10395