Reading Response to Mint Snowball

     The narrative Mint Snowball by Naomi Shihab Nye is full of ideas, vivid details, and significance. The story really makes an enormous impact on the narrator's life. Not only does it impact her life but also the family's prized recipe of the Mint Snowball. There is one aspect of this narrative that really stands out. That aspect is her word choice, in trying to cover that vivid detail section of a narrative. For example, when describing the snowball she says "a flamboyant elixir of mint". Also when putting the syrup on it the grandfather "permeated with mint syrup".

     Another component in making this narrative so interesting was the purposeful sentence fragments and punctuation errors used throughout the story. Especially toward the end of the first paragraph where there are about four fragments. To top it off the rhetorical questions really lead you into comprehending the real meaning of this narrative.

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