An Insatiable Appetite “A Sweet Devouring” by Eudora Welty is a descriptive essay. Welty describes how she indulged in reading numerous books as a child. She says, “The pleasure of reading itself – who doesn’t remember? – were like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring” (Welty, 247). She compares reading books to eating pieces of cake on a special occasion. The title is significant because it represents Welty’s insatiable appetite for repetitive consumption of engaging adventures hidden between the pages of books.
Welty shares the details about several of the stories she’s consumed. Tales from Maria Edgeworth is one of those stories. It is about a girl who chooses to buy an attractive purple jar, instead of replacements for her worn …show more content…
J. Perelman’s “Insert Flap ‘A’ and Throw Away” and Wolfe’s “Putting Daddy On”. Perelman’s essay illustrates how a father struggles with assembling a toy for his children. “We place the axle on the diagram as in Fig. C, applying a strong downward pressure on the knife handle at all times” (Perelman, 188). The father ends up in the bathroom trying to stop the blood flow because he has cut himself. Wolfe’s essay describes “the Lower East Side as the caravansary for flipniks” (Wolf, 280). This essay is about a father struggling to reconnect with his estranged son. There is a lesson to be learned from each of those essays. In “A Sweet Devouring”, Welty describes her experience with books and what lessons the experience taught her. She read stories that were satisfying and some unsatisfying. Welty’s great-aunt sent her “a bound volume of six or eight issues of St. Nicholas” (Welty, 248). She devoured each serial with great anticipation and pleasure. However, the last serial had no conclusion. This was unsatisfying, but Welty didn’t relent. She read the book, again. Ultimately, Welty learned how to choose books than would bring her the most satisfaction. “And then I went again to the home shelves and my lucky hand reached and found Mark Twain – twenty-four volumes, not a series, and good all the way through”
Welty shares the details about several of the stories she’s consumed. Tales from Maria Edgeworth is one of those stories. It is about a girl who chooses to buy an attractive purple jar, instead of replacements for her worn …show more content…
J. Perelman’s “Insert Flap ‘A’ and Throw Away” and Wolfe’s “Putting Daddy On”. Perelman’s essay illustrates how a father struggles with assembling a toy for his children. “We place the axle on the diagram as in Fig. C, applying a strong downward pressure on the knife handle at all times” (Perelman, 188). The father ends up in the bathroom trying to stop the blood flow because he has cut himself. Wolfe’s essay describes “the Lower East Side as the caravansary for flipniks” (Wolf, 280). This essay is about a father struggling to reconnect with his estranged son. There is a lesson to be learned from each of those essays. In “A Sweet Devouring”, Welty describes her experience with books and what lessons the experience taught her. She read stories that were satisfying and some unsatisfying. Welty’s great-aunt sent her “a bound volume of six or eight issues of St. Nicholas” (Welty, 248). She devoured each serial with great anticipation and pleasure. However, the last serial had no conclusion. This was unsatisfying, but Welty didn’t relent. She read the book, again. Ultimately, Welty learned how to choose books than would bring her the most satisfaction. “And then I went again to the home shelves and my lucky hand reached and found Mark Twain – twenty-four volumes, not a series, and good all the way through”