Complete 6 page APA formatted essay: Topic of 3 essays are including with the document.Download file to see previous pages... It was this “walk in the rain” that made up for all the unwritten desc

Complete 6 page APA formatted essay: Topic of 3 essays are including with the document.

It was this “walk in the rain” that made up for all the unwritten descriptions she would have of the experience. The walk, it turned out, provided the essence and meaning of her entire stay in Japan – yet ironically, nothing was uttered or said during that brief (she could not even remember how many minutes) togetherness with a stranger under one umbrella, with the raindrops and the sound of their footsteps hitting the pavement providing the only effects in addition to the silence. The author concludes her narrative with a breath under suspension after the stranger disappeared instantly without a word leaving her in a state of “mysterious shock.” Shields is her usual self in finding humanity in every aspect or event or place or circumstance where she ascribes meaning to even the most ordinary thing or activity such as sharing an umbrella with a complete stranger. One cannot resist to admire Shield’s masterful play of words and emotions as she moves from her treatment of ordinary, drab, inconsequential events and transforms them into meaningful “encounters.” I am completely taken by her figures of speech: “…invaded me like a kind of flu… a temporary vacuum that had nothing to do with Japan… hypnotic walking…walking towards the unimaginable.” I photo-played the ordinariness of her stay in Japan based on her description and I could sense her dryness, or maybe the dryness of the event she was describing, and felt her remorse as if I was there. It was as if she took me by the hand when she shifted to a colorful and rich description of that brief “rain walk.” I could even see or feel myself as being the towering stranger holding up the umbrella for a woman, and walking almost gingerly with somebody he does not know from Adam. I could see myself as the stranger quickly disappearing from the woman’s view as soon as we hit the sidewalk of the designated hotel, at the same time experiencing the agony and perplexity of Shields after being left without any word, or cue whatsoever. It was Shields wielding her power and ability to put the reader in a similar state of suspension. Essay 2: “Goodbye Muse, Hello Prada” by Goran Simic (Harsent 84) This essay speaks of the author’s random thoughts and feelings about his work assignment in Canada after he and his family migrated to that country due to the war in Yugoslavia that left deep sad imprints in his mind. The writer talks longingly about how his father would express his dislike for the author’s decision to leave Bosnia and earn a living in Canada using brawn and muscles instead of brain. Simic has already earned a name as a writer in his country before the war broke out, and he muses over the shift in his means of livelihood when he came to Canada. He speaks dispassionately about the kind of work he was doing at Holt Renfrew warehouse, a work that his father was referring to as the work of a slave. In a matter-of-fact writing style, he narrates how he went about his work as the one in-charge of moving the designer clothings, not failing to notice the disparity of the price ranges of such clothes compared to their earnings.