Coner Store Rqs

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2. I think Welty describes the scents before appearance because she wants the reader to create an image in their minds before she actually describes the store. She wants the reader to interpret the smells into a particular way so she can either surprise or agree with the reader’s thoughts. 3. The scents create a somewhat yucky dominant impression. She creates this yucky impression with the use of words like “Licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek, dill pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor, ammonia-loaded ice that had been hoised from wet croker sacks and slammed into the icebox with its sweet butter at the door, and perhaps the smell of still untrapped mice.” These words make an unpleasant reaction upon the reader. 4. Welty built Mr. Sessions to seem to be generous. He let whoever was sent for something keep the nickel that was left over. “The Barrio” RQs 3. “…the warmth of the tortilla factory is a wool sarape [blanket] in the chilly morning hours…” Ramirez uses this metaphor to describe how comfortably warm the tortilla factory is and is comparing it to the comfort of a wool blanket in the chilly morning hours. 5. Western side of town: thick, impenetrable walls built to keep the neighbors at bay. Barrio: rusty, wire contraptions or thick green shrubs. He uses this to show the difference of the middle upper class fences compared to the barrio’s fences. This may symbolize cultural stability. 6. He started on a positive note to persuade the reader to keep reading on about how positive the barrios are. He ends on a negative note because he wants the reader to see the small details about how the barrio is impacted negatively. If they had been switched, the reader may not have read all the way through. A reader doesn’t like to start reading something so negative, and it will cause the
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