The Flowers Vs. The Sniper

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The story “The Flowers” contains better quality of description than “The dogs could teach me” and “The Sniper”. Sensory details give a strong appeal to a story compared to describing something with adjectives. In the story “The Flowers” it says “The air held a keeness that made her nose twitch” and in “The dogs could teach me” it says “logging trail went through a small,sharp-sided gully”. The flowers shows more description because it makes you feel the scenery with the sensory details rather than with with “The dogs could teach me”, it just just described the trail with adjectives. Word choice affects description in many ways. In “The Flowers” it says “Tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale of soil and the water that silently rose