In the passage “One Writer’s Beginnings” from her autobiography, Eudora Welty recalls early childhood experiences of reading books that later had an impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. In this essay, we are going to analyze how Welty’s language conveys the intensity and the value of these early childhood experiences of reading and about books from a general perspective. Welty begins by giving the reader a vivid description of Mrs. Calloway, which is the first experience and the first way she uses her language to convey the intensity and value of this experience. Calloway according to Welty was scary,“she was always by herself, sat back to the books facing the stairs and had a dragon eye on the door.“Even though this librarian made
