Rainy Mountain

My favorite part of this essay is the overall personal mood.  Because the author revolves the essay around his grandmother, the essay is easy to relate to.  I am very close to both my grandmothers and therefore this story was easy for me to relate to.  I love how the author connected his grandmother to what he was experiencing and his heritage.  He recalled lots of his memories of her and that made me feel like I had met her.  I loved when he described her "long black hair" and her appearance because it was easy to see in my head.  Visual descriptive words are something I really wanna use in my essay because they really paint a picture in the readers head.  Compared to the essay Ground Zero I did not like the ending sentence of this essay at all.  I wish he had ended the essay with a more positive statement about his grandmother instead of a negative one.  I liked the Ground Zero essay overall better than the Rainy Mountain essay because it has better description and it's easier to relate to.