Marrakech

1. By George Orwell Marrakech

2. 1. Name of Location • 2. A specific group of people or person involved in an activity whom you’ve observed from that location. [Remember: “The little crowd of mourners---all men and boys, no women---threaded their way across the market-place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again” (98).] Describe the person/people using vivid imagery (use at least two different senses):

3. Describing • 3. Describe what knowledge or insight you’ve gained from observing these people (try to keep the language formal, serious and objective). [Remember: “They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone” (99).] Consider how your observation may be a reflection of society, the impact of government, traditions, etc: • 4. Describe a different group of people or person involved in an activity whom you’ve observed from this location. [Remember: “Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital L’s, work their way slowly across the fields, tearing up the prickly weeds with their hands, and the peasant gathering Lucerne for fodder pulls it up stalk by stalk instead of reaping it, thus saving an inch or two on each stalk” (101).] Describe using vivid imagery (use at least one example of figurative language)

4. Knowledge/insight • 5. Describe what knowledge or insight you’ve gained from observing these people (try to keep the language formal, serious and objective). [Remember: “People with brown skins are next door to invisible. Anyone can be sorry for the donkey with its galled back, but it is generally owing to some king of accident if one even notices the old woman under her load of sticks” (102).] Consider how your observation may be a reflection of society, the impact of government, traditions, etc:

5. More observations • 6. Describe yet another group of people or person involved in an activity whom you’ve observed from this location. [Remember: “None of these people, I suppose, works less than twelve hours a day, and every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury” (100). • “’But,’ I said, “’isn’t it a fact that the average Jew is a laborurer working for about a penny a hour?”’ • “’Ah, that’s only for show! They’re all moneylenders really. They’re cunning, the Jews’” (100).] • Describe using vivid imagery (you choose the imagery/figurative language that will work best, or you may opt to include dialogue).

6. More knowledge/insight • Describe what knowledge or insight you’ve gained from observing these people (try to keep the language formal, serious and objective). [Remember: “In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal” (100).] Consider how your observation may be a reflection of society, the impact of government, traditions, etc:

7. Devices Used • Imagery • Metaphor • Simile • Tone/mood • Questions • Observant onlooker • 1st person and 3rd person and 2nd person • Separate ideas of a place. • Interjecting his own observations • Sad and depressing • Contrasting views (what he sees vs. others see like the Jewish people). • dialogue

8. Des Moines By Bill Bryson

9. 1. Name of Location • 2. Provide a stereotype that could justifiably be used to describe this place. Use humor, wit, sarcasm and/or exaggeration for this stereotype. • “Welcome to Des Moines. This is what death feels like.” • 3. Make a generalization about what all the people are like in the location. [Remember: “Everybody in Des Moines is strangely serene” (28)]

10. Describe a group… • 4. Describe a peculiar group of people or person who is the exception to the above and who can be found in your location. [Remember: “The only person I ever knew in Des Moines who wasn’t serene was Mr. Piper. Mr. Piper…a leering cherry-faced idiot who was forever getting drunk and crashing his car into telephone poles” (28)] When describing this group, or person, use at least two examples of stylistic devices. • 5. Describe another peculiar group of people or person who can be found in the location. [Remember: “Iowa women are almost always sensationally overweight” (30)] When describing this group or person, use exaggerated diction and humor.

11. More Describing • 6. Describe a personal anecdote of an experience you had that is connected with the location. [Remember: “In about 1957, my grandparents gave me a Viewmaster for my birthday and a packet of discs with the title ‘Iowa – Our Glorious State.’”] Use vivid imagery that involves at least two different senses. • 7. Describe another personal anecdote of an experience you had that is connected with the location. [Remember: “My brother, sister and I in the back were miles away from my parents up front in effect in another room…” (32)] Use humor, sarcasm, exaggeration, and/or wit in illustrating your anecdote.

12. Two sides… • Write one sentence that conveys the positive lasting effects this chosen location has on you (try and use humor). “I glanced at the cards and suddenly I knew what she meant. They were purty. For one giddy, careless moment I was almost serene myself.” • Write one sentence that conveys the negative lasting effects this chosen location has on you (try and use humor).

13. Devices Used • Humor • Sarcasm • Simile/metaphor • 1st person narration • A variety of ideas about a place (people, sights, thoughts, lifestyle, dress, looks) • Hyperbole • Mood • Imagery • Personal • Lively • A meaness that makes it kind of funny. • Matter of fact statements about the place/people • dialogue