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The essay is inspired by the lavish descriptive language of Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game,” in which you will practice the key principle in writing of Show, Don’t Tell.
What does that mean? Consider the difference between these two sentences:
1. “Inside, the butchers with their bloodstained white smocks deftly gutted the fish while customers cried out their orders and shouted, “Give me your freshest,” to which the butchers always protested, “All are freshest.”
2. Inside, butchers cut up fish while the customers shouted their orders.
Total difference, right? In the first sentence, Amy Tan appeals to our senses. We see the red blood on the white aprons, hear the Chinese/English, sense the frenetic energy of the shop. Her use of adverbs like “deftly,” verbs like “protested” and “gutted,” adjectives like “bloodstained,” take us into the experience. Like in a movie, we’re there in the shop with little Waverly.
The second sentence does not give descriptive, accurate detail, so we can’t see the interior of the shop, hear the voices of the customers, appreciate the skill of the butchers, etc. When we merely tell our readers about something with a bland sentence like, “Inside, butchers cut up fish while the customers shouted their orders,” we are conveying boring information only.
Write about any place that you remember vividly from the past where something meaningful happened for you. Using colorful, descriptive language, take us into the experience with you. Show us what you learned, tell us a story, but do it by Showing, Not Telling.
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