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Flowers By Alice Walker Analysis
The short story, “Flowers” by Alice Walker showed a more suitable examples of description writing between the two stories “The Dog Could Teach Me” and “The Sniper”. The reason for this story containing strong examples of description is because throughout the entire story the reader knew every move the character was making or every setting that was changing. In the text of, “Flowers” it states “Frayed, rotted bleached, and frazzled-- barely there- but spinning restlessly in the breeze”. It's clear to the reader that a rope was clinging to a limb of an oak tree, but the writer didn't just say that, they added the descriptive words so it can simply be pictured in the minds of the readers. However, in the text of “The Sniper” it says, “Placing
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