Sommers Don T Tell Analysis

This reading was particularly interesting because the author was explaining her family’s tradition of, ‘”don’t tell”. She spent a lot of time describing her family’s photos and as describe in Storycraft Chapter 6, she brought scenes to life. Her description of the picture was vividly detail that I felt like I was at the actual wedding experiencing what she described. One quote that stood out to me is, “Even at a wedding- a joyous moment of optimism, of promise, and faith in the future- Jews are commanded to remember the past, the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.” (Sommers 336). In her story Sommers also uses revealing details and space, throughout it she starts of by explaining why her family kept secrets and how throughout the years she understood why. I was able to understand her family’s history because all of the revealing details she described while analyzing the pictures. Finally, like she explained, “at forty we begin to understand our connections to the past,” (Sommers 335). This is true, it is not until we get older that we start to realize many things that were blurry to us as children. …show more content…
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