Reflection on Fun in the Sun

Author’s Note: This is a reflection on my descriptive piece, Fun in the Sun.

In my descriptive essay, Fun in the Sun, I used imagery.  There are many ways that using this particle of writing helped my piece.  Basically it’s specifically used to create a picture in the minds of your readers.  If I hadn’t used imagery the people who comprehend it wouldn’t be able to picture my memory like I could.  I believe that every writer, whether professional or not, should make an effort to have their readers see what they do through imagery. 

One form of imagery I used was tone.  In the following sentence; A moan of relief simultaneously escaped our mouths as our feet felt the cool sand underneath the satisfying lukewarm water, I created a tone of relieve. This tone is written in the sentence, but  if I had taken out, of relief, the tone could still be pin-pointed.

I also attempted to add senses, which is another form of imagery.  In this sentence; As the conversation ended I waddled upstairs still wrapped in a blanket and breathed in the air that smelt of wood one last time.  I added a sense of smell.  Senses are an even easier fragment of writing, but only if you they are used correctly.  If you know mostly everyone has either: seen, heard, smelt, tasted, or felt the sense you added, the sense then fits under the category of imagery.

The two examples of imagery that I reflected on were just a small fraction of the imagery, I used in my descriptive essay.  If you are going to use imagery in a piece you need to make certain that you are using it from start to finish.  One piece that is based off of tones and senses is descriptive and it’s definitely not as difficult as you may think because, I’m not anywhere near the best at writing, but I do believe that my readers saw a picture that perfectly matched mine.