Why I Prayed My Mom Would Leave

In the assigned readings I have learned many things about descriptive narration. The first is that you can be too descriptive in which case the reader gets lost and does not comprehend the story. In I Prayed My Mom Would Leave I had to read the story 3 times before I was able to get the point of the story. Her descriptions were very tantalizing. The only thing I really like about this article is that Chadburn gets the point across very well in describing how her mother acted and the “Chasing Toast” part was very entertaining.

In Okahandja Lessons I feel the overall descriptive narration is very well thought out. The opening of this writing makes me feel like I am watching a video of her arriving to Namibia. The way she described the cars that were crashed as gargoyles was a great way to set the scene and is also a great example to me of abstract narration. The car crash scene in the beginning has a lot more meaning than I initially thought. That scene describes something broken, just as Emily Rapp, the author, views herself

To me this article speaks more to me because, like Hoffner, my future mother-in-law and I have a very close relationship. The way she describes their relationship with one another reminds me of how wonderful it is to be close to the woman who raised your husband/ future husband. I absolutely loved the way she construed the article in having multiple descriptive narrations of the thing her mother-in-law kept telling her “Get up in the early morning, put on the kettle, put in a load of laundry, and write.” (Hoffner, Dawn Chorus). The way she emphasized the meaning that early mornings meant to her mother-in-law and what they eventually meant to her was refreshing because it is a great way to use narration. The only thing I wish was different about this essay is that there was more descriptions, like how she described the dragonfly landing on her sons shoulder, it makes me crave