My choice book that I chose was, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was published in 2006 with 108 chapters. The book is organized in the three countries that she traveled to, Italy, India, and Indonesia. When you first open the book, there is an introduction where she talks about what was most memorable to her during her travels.
Comparing Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and Eat Pray Love, they are both different but a bit similar in a way. The similarities with the two books are how the two writers are travelers and wrote about their experiences. The differences are the way they write and convey emotions or describe places and events. Heat-Moon describes places,events,and things, very specifically while Gilbert is more casual …show more content…
She doesn’t talk a lot about facts, unless it’s about herself and that she in fact had depression after the whole issue on her divorce. Other than that she doesn’t speak much about anything else besides what is going around her. “But when I try to go to the chant, all it does is agitate me.” (Gilbert 162) For facts she talks about the religion and about they place she is in, “Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance here in Bali.” (Gilbert 226) In Blue Highways, Heat-Moon does speak some facts because he does speak about the history of the places he’s been to. Like when he was talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition. “...1806; Lewis and Clark, camped to the north…” (Heat-Moon …show more content…
Heat-Moon is more in my opinion, stale. He doesn’t have much personality and is a bit bland when explaining. I find his writing a bit depressing. It’s possibly the age, which affects the way of writing or maybe because of his maturity. “The woman turned from the small window, her eyes vacant, and went to the cooler for two more bottles of Lone Star.” (Heat-Moon 136) In my choice book, she is a bit younger and more adventurous which I find more amusing. The book overall, has a positive vibe than compared to Blue Highways. With the rants that she does, I feel like, it’s more real and that she’s showing more of who she is as a person which really connects to readers. It’s also very funny and the usage of her language really shows that. “..as though I were some escaped zoo animal.”(Gilbert
Comparing Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon and Eat Pray Love, they are both different but a bit similar in a way. The similarities with the two books are how the two writers are travelers and wrote about their experiences. The differences are the way they write and convey emotions or describe places and events. Heat-Moon describes places,events,and things, very specifically while Gilbert is more casual …show more content…
She doesn’t talk a lot about facts, unless it’s about herself and that she in fact had depression after the whole issue on her divorce. Other than that she doesn’t speak much about anything else besides what is going around her. “But when I try to go to the chant, all it does is agitate me.” (Gilbert 162) For facts she talks about the religion and about they place she is in, “Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance here in Bali.” (Gilbert 226) In Blue Highways, Heat-Moon does speak some facts because he does speak about the history of the places he’s been to. Like when he was talking about the Lewis and Clark expedition. “...1806; Lewis and Clark, camped to the north…” (Heat-Moon …show more content…
Heat-Moon is more in my opinion, stale. He doesn’t have much personality and is a bit bland when explaining. I find his writing a bit depressing. It’s possibly the age, which affects the way of writing or maybe because of his maturity. “The woman turned from the small window, her eyes vacant, and went to the cooler for two more bottles of Lone Star.” (Heat-Moon 136) In my choice book, she is a bit younger and more adventurous which I find more amusing. The book overall, has a positive vibe than compared to Blue Highways. With the rants that she does, I feel like, it’s more real and that she’s showing more of who she is as a person which really connects to readers. It’s also very funny and the usage of her language really shows that. “..as though I were some escaped zoo animal.”(Gilbert