One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty Analysis

In “One Writer's Beginnings”, Eudora Welty uses imagery, detail and appeals in order to convey and intensify the value of her experiences. There are key examples as to how Welty uses detail to convey her experiences; however, there is another example I would like to highlight. For instance, she states “So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read.” She is explaining a key event in her life which sparked her eagerness and intense interest to read; It displays how her rich use of detail explains to readers the love she had for reading and books as a young girl. Her details based on her childhood help readers to learn about how Welty’s passion for reading and books led to her inspiration for becoming a writer. Welty uses the element of appeals to persuade readers in order to reveal and deepen her experiences. For example, she states “Every book I seized on,
For example, in the first paragraph she talks about her librarian Mrs.Calloway stating “She ran the Library by herself, from the desk where she sat at the back to the books and facing the stairs, her dragon eye on the front door, where who knew what kind of person might come in from the public?” By referring to her eyes as dragon eyes, she supports her claim “I don't know anyone who'd grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs.Calloway, our librarian”, which implies that she is scary.
She also stated “ My mother was not afraid of Mrs.Calloway. She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me and I saw I had met a witch.” She refers to her as a witch because she makes the claim that she is frightening. By using imagery, she continues to show how key events in her childhood showed her passion for reading books which sparked her inspiration for wanting to be a