They both also share veary colorfull and discriptive imagary that allows the reader to visualize, or put themselves in the story.
In American Childhood the author is sharing a remebered event from his child hood. He is younge, of the age of 7. He describes his friends giving just a bit of information on each present. He describes the weather and a suburban surrounding. He also makes references to the year and season. While engaging in a childish activity of throwing snowballs at cars, he finds himself in trouble with the target. He takes flight and describes the path he uses to loose the angry man. He describes the man's surprising willingness to catch him. At the end of the story, the author makes an comparison with the mans leap to tackle him with the same type of leap the boy uses in football.
In the story A Call Home a younge girl is shopping with her grandma and sister right before Christmas. She describes her excitement and the excitement in the entire mall. She then describes how she discovers a button she desperately wants, but she toils within herself whether or not she should spend her money on it. She decides to slip it into her pocket and walk out. She describes the mixed feeling she has. She then gets caught and turned into the police. She describes again her mixed feelings about he being arrested, but then the sole feeling of remorse and fear overtakes her when she has to call home.
I do believe naming takes place in A american childhood without always detailing. It uslually happens after the second mention of that noun thought. In her introduction to a new object or person she does use discription to introduce them to the story. The detail helps you not only picture the story better, but really allows you, the reader, to put yourself in the middle of the story. To almost invelope you as the kid running, or maybe the man chasing, or maybe running through the streets of your own town, or maybe it is all together a new experince for you as you read.
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