Summary and Response

Excellent environment

I stood in the field a place of dreams and shadowy visions and it smelled like Christmas was around. The sunrise came through and I could see a herd of cattle from a distance sheltering under the green trees that looked perfectly healthy. This was an amazing farm with colorful flowers growing all over the field. You could feel the soft wet ground, as the temperatures were about 18 degrees. From a distance, I could see people sawing seeds in the fields and they wore big hats to reflect away the sun and keep them cool. Through the leaves, a blowing wind could pass time and again it sounded like hand claps. I had the opportunity to observe the leaves from the trees fell to the ground constantly. As I stood under a tree shed, I could not help but notice the big mushrooms that had grown in the damp soil. This was a pleasant surrounding as I had the opportunity of witnessing the natural beauty in the farm while at the same time glancing on the ongoing activities that were being performed.

Smelly environment

Through the field wetland, the barn was quite big. This was an old resting place for the animals and the smell of grass mixed with that of manure could be smelled. I move closer to get a clear look at where the animals were resting, the perspiration of the tired animals was all over. The animals looked thirsty and seemed very restless because of the bad environment around them. The place with the bunch of grass was wet and unpleasant at the same time showing evidence of the cow’s manure and terrible leaves. This was not appealing and it made the place dreadful.

Rhetorical analysis

I have considered that the writer’s toolbox provides while writing the descriptions of both the pleasant and the unpleasant place. I selected the field because it is capable of providing both the positive and negative views of a place that one has never been to. It is the same place that gives both positive and negative descriptions of a place. The first description, which is positive, talks of a place so divine and one that is desirable and allows one to have fun while at the field. This is even made more enjoyable because of the beautiful flowers and green trees, which look so healthy, and it urges people to enjoy the environment. The second description on the other hand demonstrates a very different experience described by awful smells from the grass and manure.

While giving these two description I ensured that the proper tone was used and I also selected the words to use carefully in order to provide the people who cannot have a first hand experience of what I saw a better understanding of the experience. In the pleasant experience, I describe of the wind blowing the leaves making them produce a clapping sound with the hands and this represents a positive description.

On the other hand, with the unpleasant environment, I placed more focus on elements like; the smelly manure produced by cows and the dead leaves to show an environment that is quite undesirable. The words to use when giving the vivid description are very vital as they help determine the reader’s view of the place been described. For instance when I state the ground as being soft, this description helps the readers create in their mind the idea of the place as having experienced rain and understands that the place was not dry.

I omitted some of the details so as to be able to maintain the tone and make the mood consistent. Besides that, I failed to use the manure from the cows and rotten leaves in the pleasant description in order to provide scenery that has a good description. If I had included these in the pleasant description, a bad picture could have been portrayed. By just reading the title for each section, the reader is capable of understanding what is discussed in the following paragraph. The first description holds the title of “excellent” which helps the reader create a positive expectation while the second who is titled “smelly” prepares them for a negative description.

Reflection

When writing the paper, I noticed that it is harder to describe a place that I have never seen as opposed to that which I have been to and experienced. The most difficult activity in describing a place lies in the selection of the correct words to use since the aim is to make the description appear clear to the reader as it is to the describer. Besides that, the choice of sentence structure and words also determine the nature of description since it can determine whether the description is positive or negative. The process of using the writer’s toolbox has indeed affected the way I view various information media since now I have been in a position to know how those behind the ideas in the various media sources have to do a lot of work to ensure the audience gets the best. They have to make everything so real in order to capture the minds of the readers and viewers and this can be such a difficult task.