Raul Moreno Jr
English 100
Cerritos College
Post #6 [I think]

Moths

The author writes very descriptively, using lively adjectives or comparisons and giving lengthy details to the scenes in which the story plays out. Paragraph 13 stands out to me, in which she goes into a poetic, unconventional description of the sun setting with great eloquence. In the following paragraph, she further gives your mind a picture painted by words. Where other writers might leave room for the imagination to view or not to view the scene of the young lady bathing her "abuelita", the author leaves nothing of the sort. She does not show, but forces you too look upon the scene with an explanation involving "sporadic vaginal hairs" and "the fold of her buttock." The descriptions are real; they are raw.
I found it interesting to find the young girl stating two times, with no regard to the present theme and almost randomly, "I never kissed her." It seems as though she, looking back, now regrets the fact that she never kissed her abuelita. It eats at her to such a point that she will randomly insert this little bit of thinking out loud that is ever present. She makes mention of her abuelita's staring grey eye bringing to her a feeling of comfort and safety. She also speaks of Abuelita, being there with her through some of her hardest times, helping her along during puberty. Her abuelita also helped her with her hands--her greatest insecurity. After Abuelita had done this, the young lady had only seen it fit to help her grandmother with anything and everything that was needed, though she had never kissed her.