Thursday, September 4, 2008

Resonse to "Herb's Chicken"

In Anna Seitz’s essay on her experience with processing chicken, what impressed me the most about her essay was her use of descriptive language that appeals to multiple senses. For instance, when she is witnessing bleeding a chicken for the first time she says, “Herb pulled the knife down, and in one quick motion, cut the chicken’s throat from the inside. Blood spilled from it’s open beak into the bucket” (Seitz 3). Also I thought she made the story more interesting with her constant use of dialogue between the characters. Overall, her topic was not that interesting, but I think she made it work by using those tools. Hopefully I can use those tools in my memoir as well as she does.

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