Every time I go to visit my grandparents in Florida we go fishing. We take their little boat out onto the salty sea and sit for a while. One of my best memories was when it was getting late and we were going to start heading home. But I hadn’t caught a fish yet, so I asked “Papa just one more minute”, he laughed and gave me that one more minute. Almost in an instant my bouy went underwater and I reeled in a giant silverfish. I have never seen him so proud. This day will forever stick in my head just as Virginia Woolf’s will in hers. Woolf uses language to not only convey a pleasant memory, but to also show how this experience helped her grow as a person.
Woolf uses sentence structure, diction and imagery to show how this experience never …show more content…
Because this is a memory, reflecting back on it she can see exactly where her perception changed: “Though my passion for the thrill and tug had been perhaps the most acute I then knew, [her father’s] words slowly extinguished it; leaving no grudge, I ceased to wish to catch fish.” Up until the point at which her father expressed his opinion about catching fish, she had a deep passion for it. Her use of imagery on her passion leaving her, shows a changing perception. She still understands fishing as a passion, yet she no longer feels the desire to do so. At the end of the passage she elaborates in greater detail on the subject passion and growth: “It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other peoples experience.” She uses an extended metaphor to compare passion to a seed. It can grow to represent other peoples experience, just like with her father. She explains how we have to make do with the “seeds” we are given, and they are what shape us into who we. Her use of language displays how this specific example from her past made her learn a whole new way to look at
Woolf uses sentence structure, diction and imagery to show how this experience never …show more content…
Because this is a memory, reflecting back on it she can see exactly where her perception changed: “Though my passion for the thrill and tug had been perhaps the most acute I then knew, [her father’s] words slowly extinguished it; leaving no grudge, I ceased to wish to catch fish.” Up until the point at which her father expressed his opinion about catching fish, she had a deep passion for it. Her use of imagery on her passion leaving her, shows a changing perception. She still understands fishing as a passion, yet she no longer feels the desire to do so. At the end of the passage she elaborates in greater detail on the subject passion and growth: “It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other peoples experience.” She uses an extended metaphor to compare passion to a seed. It can grow to represent other peoples experience, just like with her father. She explains how we have to make do with the “seeds” we are given, and they are what shape us into who we. Her use of language displays how this specific example from her past made her learn a whole new way to look at