Esmeralda Santiago uses many sensory words to enrich her writing. Santiago
helps us understand how a guava taste. She says, that the skin is thick, firm, and sweat.
''the most delicious part of the guava surrounds the tiny seeds''. She can describe the
guava while eating it. They are large and juicy, almost seedless.
Esmeralda tells us how it looks and does describe it. ''It feels familiar bumpy and
firm, when the guava is not quite ripe; the skin is still a dark green''. Its heart is bright pink
and almost solid with seeds.
Esmeralda talks about how the guava sounds and the smell sensation. When
Esmeralda smells them she can imagine what's inside, she smells it and imagines a pale
pink center, the seeds tightly embedded in the flesh. Everyone can hear the skin, meat, and
seeds crushing inside your head. When enjoying them have another and another, enjoying
them crunchy sounds of the unripe center. She talks about eating her last one she didn't
want t eat it because she would lose the smell.
Esmeralda Santiago like any other person that likes guavas and have been
eating them for a long time, can talk and describe them their own way Esmeralda can
describe a guava with visual image, smell, and sound. When Esmeralda smells a guava, s
he talks about the guava being part of her child hood but then she rather walk away from
them and towards the apples and pears, but just criticizes them.
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