David Matthew’s essay ‘Pick One’ is an eloquent essay filled with imagery, symbolic language and sensory details that bring the reader into Matthew’s world, but is lacking in some structural aspects and leaves the reader without a satisfactory conclusion. His vocabulary notwithstanding, Matthew’s essay is spectacularly descriptive and easily conveys the atmosphere he felt as a child as he takes his readers through the experience he is sharing. There are areas, however, that could be analyzed as outside the trend and lacking in the colorful language that the rest of the paper exhibits. While most of the paper is well expressed, the conclusion can be felt as abrupt. The main point of the paper is only broached in the last paragraph while the beginning only builds up to the ending reveal. There are several main points easily touched upon once read.
The audience of David …show more content…
He begins with part of his history, part of his life; this, along with his descriptive and imaginative writing, is a clear beginning to a Descriptive Essay. This could easily lead the reader to the knowledge that this paper will be about an experience that the writer has had in the past. The post date of 1977 in the first sentence of the introduction further nudges this train of thought along. In his mentioning of Baltimore and the black people he sees all around him, he broaches, quite literally, half of his topic. Because he is telling more of a story than arguing a point or informing an audience, there is no clear thesis to this introduction. After reading Matthew’s introduction, readers may simply guess at the course this topic will progress along. They may guess that it will be about his life in Baltimore, or about the black people that live there. From simply reading this one paragraph, there is no clear path that the essay will
The audience of David …show more content…
He begins with part of his history, part of his life; this, along with his descriptive and imaginative writing, is a clear beginning to a Descriptive Essay. This could easily lead the reader to the knowledge that this paper will be about an experience that the writer has had in the past. The post date of 1977 in the first sentence of the introduction further nudges this train of thought along. In his mentioning of Baltimore and the black people he sees all around him, he broaches, quite literally, half of his topic. Because he is telling more of a story than arguing a point or informing an audience, there is no clear thesis to this introduction. After reading Matthew’s introduction, readers may simply guess at the course this topic will progress along. They may guess that it will be about his life in Baltimore, or about the black people that live there. From simply reading this one paragraph, there is no clear path that the essay will