Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel." And whatever he touched in that rich fortress of his soul sprang into golden life
: as the years passed, the fruit trees—the peach, the plum, the cherry, the apple—grew great and bent beneath their clusters. His grape vines thickened into brawny ropes of brown and coiled down the high wire fences of his lot, and hung in a dense fabric, upon his trellises, roping his domain twice around. They climbed the porch end of the house and framed the upper windows in thick bowers. And the flowers grew in rioting glory in his yard—the velvet-leaved nasturtium, slashed with a hundred tawny dyes, the rose, the snowball, the redcupped tulip, and the lily. The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of
The passage goes into great imagery and detail about the man's garden and how it has grown and thrived. It describes the grape vines, looking like ropes, circling the whole garden and closing it in and how the flowers have bloomed in a hundred different colors all around.
It's useful because it gets you ahead in class. If you read ahead you are more likely to understand what your professor is teaching. It also helps if you unexpectedly get a large amount of homework. If you have read ahead it allows you to have more time doing labs or essays.
