These points reinforce the writers’ technique to create a childlike perspective.Įudora Welty. Sessions’s store cheese as being “as big as a doll’s house” (Welty, 157). I also noticed that the writer describes Mr. It made me think of how I may look at a stadium today with its high-reaching stands that wrap all the way around. Through the girl’s eyes the shelves were high reaching as if almost too the roof. Welty’s comment, “Shelves climbed to high reach all the way around” (Welty, 157) provides a vantage point for the young girl. This gives the reader a mental image of the surroundings. The author provides a fairly detailed depiction of the store through the girl’s eyes when she begins to explain the large amount of stock that lines the store shelves. She also further details a smell of dill-pickle, ammonia, and mice.Īnother sense that was used in the story was sight. Aside from evoking a connection with the smell of licorice this statement also evokes the taste of licorice. Welty writes, “There are almost tangible smells – licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek” (Welty, 157). The essay takes the form of various flashbacks. The author uses a lot of sensory description when explaining “The Little Store”. Eudora Welty establishes wastes no time establishing the nostalgic tone of the essay. All of these statements are made with less detail as to add more emphasis to the main point of the story, which is “The Little Store”. This provides the reader some insight into how well the little girl knows the area, background on the little girl, and also gives an idea as to the age range of the child. She commented on jumping rope, hopscotch, jacks, roller-skating, bike riding, and playing with her homemade steamboat.
She reinforced this point by explaining the multitude of games that the young girl played. Welty next begins to detail how well the little girl knows the sidewalk leading to “The Little Store” by stating, “I knew even the sidewalk to it as well as I knew my own skin” (Welty, 155). When Welty comments, “she never set foot inside a grocery store” (Welty, 155) and then proceeds to detail the mother’s use of grocery delivery for her regular needs, she is providing a good transition into why the these trips to “The Little Store” are necessary. Explaining her mother’s use of the nearby Grocer’s delivery service forms a good transition into the main part of her story, which is the young girl’s journey to “The Little Store”. Overall her story was very captivating and really did a good job explaining how life is from a child’s perspective.Eudora Welty structures her story, “The Little Store” by first giving a brief description of her town and her mother. When she was talking about the smell of the air as she was running to the store, I could picture the scene and smell the scents of the licorice, pickles and ammonia.
The way that Welty explained the naivety of herself at that age was very clear and I admire her use of detail. My entire class from that moment on was never the same and we all matured a lot from that experience. When I realized this was at the end of 8 th grade and one of my classmates committed suicide. She began to see the world for what it really was which aren’t always happy things. Sessions vanished one day and never returned.
Every child learns this at different times and through different events in their lives. Being that naïve at 14 did not work out to my benefit. That is when I needed to realize that everyone wasn’t who I thought they were. In my opinion I think that most children grow up feeling like there is really nothing else outside of their hometown and for me I didn’t realize that until I started my freshman year of high school. She is very naïve just like any other child at that age and believes that there is no other world outside of her small town. She explains her numerous trips to the store for her mother when there was something that her mother needed that wasn’t delivered to their home. In the short story, The Little Store by Eudora Welty there is a general theme of innocence and simplicity when you’re a young child.
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