guava

                 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.