I believe the reading were essays for several reasons.
1) (Least importantly) Length. They all were reasonably short (about a chapter in a book).
2) Descriptive visualizations. I don't know if it's essays in general, but the three that we read seemed to paint very precise pictures.
"Stevenson always fought from an upright position, and he maintains that posture today. When people talk to him his eyes look downward, but his head remains high. The firm jaw of his oval-shaped head seems to locked at a right angle to his straight spined back."
It continues on in this way for some time, but you get the idea.
3) Most importantly, these all seem to detail some event. The stories range from growing up as a hispaninc american, an experience with a stunt pilot and stunt piloting, or a memory of meeting a prominent political figure with an even more prominent athelete; but they all are still stories of something.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment