Fish Cheeks Figurative Language

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The short story, “Fish Cheeks” is definitely a great example of narration told in first person. The introduction sentence grabbed the reader’s attention by stating; “I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned fourteen.”. That statement makes the reader filled with curiosity to read further to figure out how she possibly fell in love with the minister’s son. Throughout the introduction is where the writer begins to reveal the characters in her story. In addition, the body paragraphs are flooding with description from how she felt about her visitors to the mess in her kitchen. The vivid language paints a pretty picture in my head. The writer was able to tell the sequence of events by simply stating what happened

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