Read “The Corner Store” by Eudora Welty (pg. 364) respond on class blog, and respond to one classmate’s post. Add no more than one response on each student’s post as your initial response, but you may add comments to reply to additional comments.
Use the following strategies to help as you respond to classmates.
-Add on with differences or similarities
-Analyze rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos, rhetorical questions, figurative language, etc.,)
-Ask questions
-Make a connection (text to self, text to text, text to world)
Choose one or two of the following questions to respond to in approximately 200-250 words.
-How does Eudora Welty organize her writing? Does her method of organization fit with the story she is telling in her narrative?
-Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
How does Eudora Welty organize her writing? Does her method of organization fit with the story she is telling in her narrative?
ReplyDeleteWelty begins by describing how the store looks when approaching it. Then, she elaborates on the scene when you first enter the store. She talks about Mr. Sessions and her nickel and how she uses it. The overall organization is formatted like a tour of the store, starting from the outside and ending with leaving the store having seen all its parts. This I believe to particularly effective because it gives a full description of the corner store while keeping it simple like a story. If she had explained it like a blueprint, I probably would've stopped reading halfway through. The way she describes Mr. Sessions also fit well with her piece. By introducing him at the time when she would usually see him instead of earlier, Welty makes it feel as if we are with her at the store. By showing us that Mr. Sessions owns the store instead of telling us, she makes the piece more interesting. In fact, she shows us many things instead of telling us.
Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
DeleteThe story "The Corner Store" by Eudora Welty uses sensory details to effectively describe her experience. She used many descriptive words to make it feel like the reader was actually there. For example, when Welty described running by the store, she described all of the smells with a very specific description. "There were almost tangible smells - licorice recently sucked in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet croker sacks and slammed into the box with its sweet butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice". This is a in-depth description of the smells in the store.
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DeleteEric talks about how the overall organization is like a tour of the store and that Welty makes it feel like we are actually in the store.
DeleteI agree with Eric that Welty makes us feel like we're in the store and that she describes all of the smells are very specifics. I also agree that that the organization was like a store tour. Generally speaking, I agree with Eric on his response.
Eric summarizes the text then elaborated on the format of the story. He mentions how the organization is somewhat of a tour. He then uses a simile, really enforcing his point that the narrative was a tour. His statement that Welty also showed us instead of telling us was also accurate.
DeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteThroughout “The Corner Store”, written by Eudora Welty, Welty describes a store. As said in the prompt, Welty uses sensory details, figurative language, and other detailed descriptions. I believe that these rhetorical devices were used effectively. For example, Welty uses sensory details to describe the smells in the store. She says, “There were almost tangible smells – licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor…” These sensory details help the reader visualize and feel as if they were actually in the corner store. Welty also provides detailed descriptions of all the products that one may be lured to at the store. One thing that really stood out to me was how detailed Welty’s description of some pastilles. She said, “They were thin and dry, about the size of tiddledy-winks, and in the shape of twisted rosettes.” The author used this description show how awful that candy was. To conclude, Welty was really able to use descriptive elements to capture the reader’s attention and make them feel as if they were shopping at “The Corner Store”.
-Shishira
I agree with Shishira, who points out all the types of detail that Welty uses in her writing, including examples of sensory details and stating how they help the reader visualize and "feel as if they were actually in the corner store".
DeleteOverall, I agree with Shishira's points and think that her response was detailed and well written using good examples to support her points.
-Claire
Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience
ReplyDeleteThe Corner Store is an essay by Eudora Welty about her neighborhood store. She uses many methods to describe this store and her experiences. She is very good at using descriptions to make the piece interesting, showing us the floors and walls, helping us smell the pickle brine and the mice. She does a good job of the "show-not-tell" kind of thing, giving us the visuals of a child's eye level, or showing us Mr. Sessions. She shows how important Mr. Sessions was to the whole corner store experience, and how he was a big part of these memories. The sensory details that Welty uses are very effective, almost to the point where you can smell Mr. Sessions and feel the cold drink and see the glass jars.
I really like this essay and I think that the sensory details that Welty used made it a lot more interesting and engaging for the reader.
I agree with Claire, who says that this piece was interesting by using the "show-not-tell" strategy, and how Mr. Sessions plays an important role adding to the corner store descriptiveness, or as she said it, "experience."
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ReplyDeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
Welty heavily relies on each of the several forms of detailed description in order to help the leader feel as if they are in the store themselves. For example, in one portion of the writing, she heavily relies on sensory details, more specifically smells. She describes the smell of “licorice recently sucked in a child´s cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack... ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet Crocker sacks and ... perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice.” Each of these individual scents gives the reader a distinct and familiar feeling of what the store may have felt like to the author herself, which helps her writing stand out as incredibly vivid, painting a very particular mental picture in the mind of each reader. At times, the amount of information can feel overwhelming (such as when she lists the items she can see sitting on the shelves) and a bit confusing, but this may be part of what Welty was aiming for in her description, as the Corner store is self was quite overwhelming with all the options for what to buy. Overall, I felt that Welty has used descriptive elements in a powerful way to help the reader visualize what it is like to walk through the aisles of ”The Corner Store”.
Sophia uses the logos intrinsic in quotation to directly support her point, namely that sensory details are a key aspect of Welty's writing style. It is important when she mentions that the quantity of perceptions "can feel overwhelming." I do think though that "this may be part of what Welty was aiming for" as you mention. The experience of rushing into a store and experiencing all the fantastic colors and tastes which overload the senses lends a Willy Wonka-esque sensory rapture to "The Corner Store."
DeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteSight has primacy in writing. In any novel, the majority of sentences exist solely to describe objects as they appear, despite that sight is only one of five other senses. This is exemplified by the maxim commonly repeated by creative writers and aspiring novelists that one should “show, don’t tell.” But what about hear, smell, feel, and taste? Eudora Welty’s “The Corner Store” demonstrates how effective a wide range of sensory information is in producing a vivid setting. Instead of merely listing the scores of objects arrayed on the shop’s shelves, Welty smells them: “licorice … dill pickle brine … ammonia-loaded ice … sweet butter … the smell of still untrapped mice” (365). Welty’s use of olfactory information becomes even more important when the reader considers its position in the text: it is written before any information about how the store looks. The reader can smell the store before he sees it, just as the scent of some unseen gastronomic delight stimulates appetite without clear understanding of what induces the hunger. She later complains that the store’s pastilles are “thin and dry” and “didn’t taste of anything at all, unless it was wood” (366). In describing broad ranges of sensory phenomena, Welty goes beyond “show, don’t tell,” to “perceive, don’t tell.” “The Corner Store” is a reminder of the power of detail to formulate a reader’s conception of a place not only as its image, but via all its perceivable data, and the richness storytelling can achieve.
-How does Eudora Welty organize her writing? Does her method of organization fit with the story she is telling in her narrative?
ReplyDeleteEudora Welty seems to have have organized her writing chronologically by talking about what happens when she does the different things she talks about in the story. She described what the corner store looks like from the outside, and then she goes inside and describes it from in there. She describes the stores smell by comparing it to licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek and dill pickle brine that leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor.. She also describes where Mr. Sessions is standing and how she spends her money, and it was generally very descriptive. I believe that this fits with the story she was writing about because it is very descriptive and seems to keep the reader’s attention throughout the entire story. The organization just adds to the story like the cherry on top of an ice cream cone, it perfects it. It keeps the reader interested in finding out what’s next, which indeed makes the organization fit with her story.
I believe that Ashton is correct when he states that Welty organized her writing chronologically. Not only does this format fit Welty's purpose of moving through the store, but it also makes the essay more realistic. By starting with entering the store and ending at the check out counter, it makes the essay more coherent and logical. This is good because it balances out the surplus of descriptions and details, giving the essay a bit more structure.
DeleteClaire Liu
Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDelete"The Corner Store" by Eudora Welty is filled with sensory details that effectively suck the reader into the store and flesh out the setting to feel like reality. For example, Welty goes into the very specifics of brand names you could see at the store, such as, "Tootsie Rolls, Hershey bars, Goo Goo Clusters, Baby Ruths. And whatever was the name of those pastilles that came stacked in a cardboard cylinder with a cardboard lid?" Going into the details of what she sees makes each brand flash before the readers eyes. Not only that, but Welty takes care to mention the other senses. In the second paragraph she writes, "There were almost tangible smells - licorice recently sucked in a child's cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked..." With each new detail a new piece is added to the puzzle of the corner store. As it has this power, I feel that Welty did use sensory language quite effectively. These details add to the experience of reading the essay, and although at times it may be a bit overwhelming, I personally like the style as a whole.
Claire Liu
In Claire´s repones, she discusses Eudora Welty´s intense inclusion of sensory details which she believes “effectively suck the reader into the story and flesh out the setting to feel like reality.” I definitely agree with this statement and her analysis on the effects of these pieces of evidence. Claire chose to analyze two pieces of her writing. The first is when she lists the many candies the author describes, and the second is the description of the many smells the Welty experienced when walking into the store. I believe that choosing these two pieces of evidence specifically was a good choice on Claire´s part as they emphasize the vivid imagery used.
DeleteIn Claire's response, she states Eudora Welty uses sensory details that portrays the store very well in "The Corner Store". I agree that the narrative was very captivating, as if the reader were living the author's memories. Claire continues to give examples on how the author incorporated sensory details such as the sense of smell and sight into her narrative effectively. I agree to the statement Claire made when she said that "the details add to the experience of reading the essay" but it can be overwhelming.
DeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteIn "The Corner Store", Welty uses sensory details to give the reader an understanding of what the corner store was to her. She elaborates on the smell of the store, and describes it as "licorice recently sucked in a child's cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet croker sacks..." This gives the reader a vivid imagination of what the store smelled like because it was very descriptive. On page 365, Welty goes on and lists what the interior of the store looked like from cracker jacks to harmonicas to ice cream salt. She gives many examples of what was in the store; though this may help the reader picture what it was like, it was excessive. Welty lists the many things she found as a child in the convenience store, even if it was nostalgic and sentimental to her, the visuals did not connect with me. The listing aspect of the essay was not her strong suit, but in the end when Welty mentions Mr. Sessions and the cold drinks, it helps the reader picture her experience very well as a child. Overall, the essay was interesting to read; however, the essay would have stood very well without a large portion of listing of the items in the store.
Margaret starts by describing that the sensory details used in Welty’s passage give the reader and explanation of what the corner store is like. I agree with her because sensory details help the reader imagine what is going on the story. She then discusses that these sensory details are described in the smell of the dill pickles and the licorice. Margaret then says how Welty uses descriptive elements to describe what the store looked like. In addition to the cracker jacks and harmonicas, Welty also described many of the things you may be lured to based on your age. Opposing Margaret, I believe that the listing was useful because it showed the pleather of objects available at the store. To conclude, Margaret wrote a well written response to the question.
Delete-Shishira
Eudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteIn "The Corner Store" by Eudora Welty, the author uses a lot of intricate details to describe her experiences. By doing so, Welty helped the text come alive and gave the reader clear descriptions of what she was seeing around her. Using sensory details allowed the author to not only tell us what was around her, but to show us like we were there with her. The many details that she included was effective in her writing because it let the readers picture the real scene around her. Although most of her details were used well, Welty could have used better descriptors for the items around her, instead of just listing them. For example, the author says: "Tootsie Rolls, Hershey bars, Goo Goo Clusters, Baby Ruths."(366) She could have included more details and described them, not just telling. But aside from that, Welty was pretty successful in bringing out her experiences using sensory details to describe the feeling around her. The author also conveys a sense of familiarity, since she went to the corner shop frequently as a child. The way she intricately describes things gives readers an idea about how much she spent her time there. As a whole, the author uses sensory details effectively to convey the values of her experiences.
In Sydney's response, she first explains her main point about how key words and descriptive phrases were so important in Welty's writing. She then includes a great piece of text evidence of when Welty perfectly described a scene, almost putting an image into the readers' heads. She closes it out talking about how the details truly show the values of her experiences. -connor lee
DeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteThe story "The Corner Store" by Eudora Welty uses sensory details to effectively describe her experience. She used many descriptive words to make it feel like the reader was actually there. For example, when Welty described running by the store, she described all of the smells with a very specific description. "There were almost tangible smells - licorice recently sucked in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet croker sacks and slammed into the box with its sweet butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice". This is a in-depth description of the smells in the store.
In Daniel's response, her talks about how Welty utilizes a lot of sensory details in order to describe her experience thoroughly. I agree with what he is saying because the text really was enhanced by the author using all those intricate details. Some of the details were so descriptive that it was like even you could smell the things she is describing. But I think she could have listed the items less because that kind of took away from the essay and its effectiveness. Overall, I agree with Daniel's blogpost and it describes how Welty uses sensory details effectively.
DeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
ReplyDeleteIn the story, "The Corner Store," Welty uses sensory details and figurative language to convey an image of what it was like at the corner store. For example, when Welty said, "There were almost tangible smells- licorice recently sucked in a child's cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoisted from wet croker sacks and slammed into the icebox with its sweet butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice." An example like this shows the detail that Welty puts into her writing, and it truly elevates anyone's piece, especially if it's a narrative.
-connor lee
DeleteNot only does she use the powers of sensory details to share her experiences, but she also uses it to appeal to pathos. With the use of the five senses, she creates a sentimental atmosphere that could potentially make the reader to remember similar nostalgic, childhood memories similar to the authors.
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How does Eudora Welty organize her writing? Does her method of organization fit with the story she is telling in her narrative?
ReplyDeleteIn Eudora Welty's "The Corner Store," she recounts about the sentimental corner store during her childhood. In her narrative essay, she helps the reader in envisioning her own experiences through the heavy use of sensory details. Every paragraph, which is structured different details of the shop, is described often with the use of sensory details. The effectiveness of Welty's descriptive writing style can be seen throughout her passage, with examples such as reminiscing about the contents in the store, providing information about the smell of licorice, the sight of candies, and variety of foods, while also giving material on the decor such as the buildings red brick exterior. All of these details used in conjunction with the organized structure, creates an enjoyable reading experience that is brought out by the vivid sensory details. With the use of the five senses in the writing, Welty engages the reader and makes the writing come alive.
In conclusion, her use of sensory details brings out the piece of writing and executes it well by giving a sense of experience for the reader.
-Jonah Bahr
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ReplyDeleteEudora Welty uses several different methods to describe her experience. Select one of the examples and discuss its effectiveness. Did Welty utilize sensory details, figurative language, or other detailed descriptions to share her experience?
Welty used sensory language repeatedly in her essay. She uses sensory language to enhance imagery for the reader. She uses this language to make the reader feel wonder,"Making a row under the glass were the Tootsie Rolls,Hershey Bars, Goo goo clusters, Babe Ruths." Since Welty writes the narrative in the second person, the sensory language is even more potent. Welty’s use of sensory language makes her writing more complex and effective.