Amy Tan Imagery

Imagery is an important part of the story becasue it enhances the description of the story the makes the story come to life more. Walker uses imagery when she is discribing Myop and how she skips to pick the flowers also Amy Tan creates a image when she describes what excally Waverly is doing in the street when she runs away form her mother. In the short stories “Flowers” and “Rules of the Game”, Walker and Amy Tan use Imagery, which creates a certin type of mood. In the “Rules of the Game,” Tan uses fast paced Imagery to create a tense mood. Waverly and her mother, Mrs. Jong, dont see things the same. By Mrs. Jong wanting everything done her way makes Waverly angry and this leads to why Waverly would run away from her mother and tan uses imagry to highlight the upsetting mood: “My breath came out like angry smoke. It was cold” (Tan). By the weather being cold and bitter it’s clear that the mood is angry and tense. This makes the night not very peaceful to be running away from home. Furthermore, the tense mood is …show more content…
As Myop was begging her jurney of picking flowers and by her skipping lightly from place to place while being care free makes the mood of the story peaceful: “It seemed to Myop as she skipped lightly from hen house to pigpen to smokehouse that the days had never been as beautiful as these” (Walker). When Myop is skipping from place to place it makes the begging of the story’s mood peaceful. Finally, the peaceful mood was able to build up when she was doing work around the land: “The harvesting of the corn and the cotton, peanuts and squash, made each day a golden surprise that caused excited little tremors to run up her jaws” (Walker). When Myop is harvesting there food Walker uses imagery to create this peaceful mood to the readers that the mood was happy and peaceful. The two peices of evidence that I have choosen advertise Walker makeing the mood of the story