I felt particularly drawn to section 3 of "The Stone Horse" which starts on page 505 because of how well Barry Lopez uses descriptive words to put the reader in the same place he is. The type of descriptive writing he is using is imagery because of the way he describes what he hears. .I feel like I can put myself on the side of the road where he writes his notes.
"... sounds from a village a half-mile away. The first sounds from this collection of ramshackle houses in a grove of cottonwoods were the distracted dawn voices of dogs. I heard them intermingled with the cries of a rooster. Later, the high-pitched voices of children calling out to each other came disembodied through the dry desert air. Now, a little after seven, I could hear someone practicing on the trumpet, the same rough phrases played over and over. " page 505 section 36
He instantly recreated that moment he was in just by letting you know the things he is hearing. Instead of just saying that he heard noises from a village nearby he says the specific noises he hears, each of them which to me, put me in the exact moment with him. He also says the time in which that moment was so I can get a slight visual of what he is seeing as well.
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