Lou’s place is an aim to present readers with a very vivid description of a restaurant. In addition to that, the piece presents a slight comparison of the restaurant between two different time periods; then and now. This is achieved through employing two strategies; narration and description. By employing these strategies the writer achieves the purpose of engaging readers’ senses to portray an intense description of a place through recall. This is magnificently attained through employing multiple strategies: flashback, comparison, sensory images and details as well as descriptive words.
Introducing the piece with a flashback leaves the reader in anticipation. The effectiveness of flashback is that it allows the reader an opportunity to see with the writer’s eyes, to feel, smell, hear and taste with the writers senses. This is satisfactorily achieved in the descriptive piece because the writer uses a lot of descriptive details to describe particular settings giving the reader the experience through recollection. Readers get the sense that there is a bit of comparison when the writer concludes the piece: “some of the old men had passed”…. “The phone still rings constantly, the women still gather their news…” it gives the reader the feeling that she has come out of her recollection and that whatever she is describing is present and continuous as opposed to what she describes through the memories of her "First visit to Lou's Cafe"
Very well said. I do agree with you in a sense that I felt like I was part of Lou's place or I had been there and I was familiar with what was being described. The writer did a good job with regard to the description of the place.
ReplyDeleteThank you Shera, what i found most interesting as well was how he integrated the flashback with the actual story and the way he used the words to take readers back and forth through his description. don't you think?
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