The Dogs Could Teach Me, And The Sniper

Out of the three stories “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen, “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, and “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, Gary Paulsen’s story demonstrates the strongest description. Paulsen demonstrates being most descriptive by his word choice. Throughout the story ”The Dogs Could Teach Me”, he uses words that help the reader make a clear picture of what is being talked about. While describing the injury the character goes through, he uses words and phrases such as “sharp snag”, “...enter under the kneecap...”, “...hit the ice of the stream bed like dropped meat…”, etc. These word choices allow the reader feel the pain of hitting the ice or the wood going through the character´s knee. However, in “The Flowers” and “The Sniper” the word choice is simple. In “The Flowers” the author uses words

In the text “The Dogs Could Teach Me”, the author describes every detail of what the character is surrounded by. Paulsen describes the waterfall as “... the falling lobes of blue ice that had grown as the water froze and refroze, layering on itself…”. In this example, the author is describing how they see where the waterfall had kept layering and layering on top of itself after the refreezing of water. In the text “The Flowers”, the author does a fairly decent job explaining what was happening in the story but hardly explaining the setting and what the character is surrounded by. The text talks about the woods behind Myop’s family sharecropper house and how she explores it a lot of the time, but the author never explains what it looks within the woods. The reader doesn’t know if there are lots of trees bunched together with barely any space between or if the trees of the woods are spread out with lots of moving space. Also with ”The Sniper”, the author could’ve had more description of the setting such as the time and the surrounding area of where the story was taking