Many descriptive words form the setting for the story. This book takes historical facts and adds insight into what the characters must have thought and how they reacted. Authority allows authors to add things to the story to increase the audience s interest and it is to the author s desecration to know when adding too many fictional ideas will falsify true stories. Fictional stories, like How to Make an American Quilt are totally free from the requirements of factual information. Because each reader will have his or her own image of a given setting of character, each character will take on a different form to each individual reader.
Most literary works use many descriptive words to help describe settings and characters.
By using many descriptive references, Whitney Otto creates vivid pictures in her novel, How to Make an American Quilt. This novel tells of the lives of a group of women and how they come together to start putting together a quilt. The story line may not excite younger audiences but they can t help but notice the descriptive words and images that the author uses. How to Make an American Quilt uses great metaphor s to explain the lives of several women. Metaphors are a great way to express the author s thoughts in a different way.