One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty Analysis

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“One Writer’s Beginnings” Essay Eudora Welty conveys the intensity and value of her previous experiences by giving vivid details. The way Eudora describes the librarian paragraphs one through two indicates that she recalls the experience well. In line five, of paragraph one, she described or compared Mrs. Calloway to having the eyes of a dragon. She uses the literary device of metaphor by saying, “...she sat with her back to the books and facing the stairs, her dragon eye on the front door. Eudora Welty also reinforces the intensity of her memory by mentioning the first time she had learned the word “impressionable.” Eudora also remembers the rules of checking out books in the library and even the names of the books she checked out and
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    In Eudora Welty’s autobiography One Writer’s Beginnings (1983) she attests that her initial literary encounters had a powerful impact on her. She uses diction, metaphors, parallelism, and a hyperbole. She writes in a fervent tone to a general audience. She narrates her struggles as a captivated young bookworm under the reign of a malicious librarian in order to convey the value and intensity of her experiences. Welty begins by sketching a vile introductory picture of Mrs. Calloway. She includes

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