Essay Packet # 1

The first essay that I would like to comment on from fiction pachet # 1 is Total Eclipse. This essay really seems to capture multiple senses of the reader. It begins by describing an unknown action as death, which is like sliding down a mountain side into the region of dread. When I first read these first few lines it filled me with a variety of different emotions including fear and nervousness. Esspecially when he described the place as unfamiliar and strange. It reminded me of a time when I got lost in the woods on a hunting trip. Also, later on in the essay he capture the visual sense of the reader by describing a clown using fruit. The author was so descriptive when describing the clown that I could literally picture everything about the  clown, as if I was looking at a picture of clown made out of fruit. What was really suprised me was in the bottem of the second paragraph on page 95 when he was describing an eclipes and said that he prays that "you" will never hav eto see anything more awful in the sky. I almost feel that he is using an eclipse to emphasize life and death...Overall I feel that this essay wasextremely descriptive, every word had extensive meaning to it.

The second essay that I would like to comment on is Door No. Five. This essay takes on another format from most of the other essay that we have read in class. This essay seems to have a language and formated like a poem. The author uses a lot of analogies convey the message and meaning of the essay. I feel that the reader is describing his fantasy place which is behind a door, door number five. The author also makes reference to "Oz". This is what gave me the indication that he was describing a place inside of a fairy tale such as in the Wizard of Oz. When I first read through this essay it didnt really make much sense, it just seemed like a bunch of statements put together. It wasn't until I read it a couple of times when i started to make sense of it. The author also referenced a pond and a peak which also gave me an indication this essay could be a description of a place. A lot of the statements in the essay are so off the wall that I kind of got the impression that he could possibly be describing a dream?...This essay is not very long but yet it still contains a lot of information for the reader to disect.