Chronological Order In Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginning

While reading Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginning I was very confused, but that was probably because her stories did not follow in chronological order. If I would have noticed that her events were not in chronological order I probably would not be as confused. Chunking the text and categorizing it is would have helped me understand what the purpose of each section was.The first section in the book has different pulses. The first pulse is, “Listening is an active process. Steps must be taken before, during, during and after”(McCann). Welty leads the readers to understand her process of listening by referencing it as parts. Her last pulse for the first section is about maturity, “Understanding the ability to truly listen is a process”(McCann). In the second section, “Learning To See”, she makes developments of her parents. “In order to see one must constantly reflect back and seek new revelations on how it has impacted life”(McCann). If Welty would have stated her stories in
I was really focused on the fact that Hatsue only married Kabuo because they were the same that I failed to notice that she truly loved him and not Ishmael. Hatsue never truly loved Ishmael because when he said I love you to her she stayed quiet. “Recognize that the trial happens during a snowstorm everyone immersed in the cold. Symbolically this indicates that the community is also frozen in time, unable to move past their prejudice ideology against the Japanese. Snowstorm affects Japanese-American citizens as they are a target of this prejudice”(McCann). After the trial the snow starts to melt which shows that they are starting to notice the prejudice. Most of the symbols in this book have dual means like the snow can be beautiful and pure as well as being