Analysis Of The Persian Carpet

When a child is asked how his or her day was, the child usual gives a detailed description of it, compared to an adult who probably replies with “tiring, ok, not bad, etc.” That is why many writers use children to portray their story. Not only are the children going to narrate you a story, they are going to give you full details of how they see the world and the things around them. When describing how Ilya, an elderly, blind man, fixes the chairs for the families in her neighborhood in the “The Persian Carpet”, the young narrator says “He would deftly take up the strands of straw, and like fishes, they’d slip through the mesh... Everything was so even and precise: it was as though his hands were a machine and I would be amazed at the speed