... stands looking at it, dreading what he must face. When he enters, the situation of the woman he has come to visit is conveyed by a powerful image: "She lies/ in a white cave of forgetfulness". The cave is perhaps the effect of curtains around the bed or the pillow and sheets into which she seems sunken. The phrase ... with the sense of the woman's limited consciousness of the world around her; she is withdrawn and remote in a cave of the mind. The word "white" also seems appropriate, often being associated with mental confusion (for example, "white noise") or sensory blankness. The frai...

• Word Count: 929
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... .Not only is the market filled with fishy and stinky air, but also treasurable local cultures and collective memories. Toward nightfall, a vast number of buyers throng the market, and the noise of bargaining from the crowd is extra loud. Elderly, foreign domestic helpers and housewives fill the market. Entering the market, an immediate vehement scent of fish and blood rush into ... the left.All kinds of green,the grass green of cabbage,the cobalt green of lettuce and the ink green of white gourd occupy the space.Vegetables are not packed but exhibited nakedly in baskets according to spec...

• Word Count: 544
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... room I have ever seen looked like a room that had been abandoned for years. As I walked up the crackling stairs, to the second floor of the old beaten down brown and white house, I came to a room. Slowly, I walked inside. The brown door that had yellow speckles where paint had chipped off closed behind me, left me standing in one of the most ... turned into an uproarious room. The room sounded like a blaring stereo: from the bugs crawling and flying, to the crackling of the old wooden floors. All of a sudden, I heard a familiar noise. It was as if my teacher took her nails and scrapped ...

• Word Count: 461
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School