Eudora Welty

In the autobiography “One Writerś Beginnings”by Eudora Welty conveys the intensity and value of the early childhood experiences through her language and style of the excerpt. Welty´s childhood experiences allows the audience to be informed on how this impacts her writing as a writer. She accomplishes this thought throughout her autobiography through the usage of imagery, anecdotes, and diction. Throughout Welty’s autobiography she uses many examples of imagery that create nostalgic feelings and exemplifies the innocence of young Welty and her childhood, but yet also helps depict the frightening librarian through her readers minds. In line sixteen through seventeen she states that if the librarian, Mrs.Calloway, could “see through your skirt”
The use of diction in line nine when she says, “her normally commanding voice” allows the reader to understand more of Mrs.Calloway, the librarian, which later adds to the reader's knowledge that the librarian is the antagonist in the anecdote and opens Welty’s eyes to add the her persona. In addition to the use of the word “commanding”, the word “devouring” in line fifty exemplifies the desire and how deeply Welty wanted to read when she was a child. She also uses the word “insatiability” to showcase how she could not get enough of reading, and that it was something the she was very passionate about. To conclude, this autobiography by Eudora Welty helps conveys how the intensity and value of the early childhood experiences through her language and style helped impact her writing as a writer. The usage of imagery, anecdotes, and diction helps create nostalgic feelings and exemplifies the innocence of young Welty, her childhood, and helps show how cultural surroundings influenced her obsession of reading books. In addition to this, it helps build Welty as person, credibility, and ability to draw her readers into her childhood as if they were