Liu Reading Journal

Lui’s narration is full of adjectives that can whisk you from your dining room table to the bustling streets of chinatown. In one scene he describes  the streets of chinatown, “I kept an eye out on the sidewalk too, so that I wouldn’t soil my shoes in the putrid water that trickled down from the alleyways and into the parapet of trash bags piled up on the curb” emphasizing the filth around him in way you could visualize the

scenery.

As stated before, Liu uses vivid sensory to transport the reader into the places he is describing, for example “It looked like an earnest community library, crowded rows of chest high shelves. In the narrow aisles between shelves patrons sat cross-legged on the floor, reading intently” in which he describes as small bookstore he enters with his family. Liu’s word usage such as fortified gives the details a much more described feeling.