The Hundred-Foot Journey Word Choice

              

      

   I have started the Hundred- Foot Journey and the first thing that I noticed as I was reading the first several pages that there is a lot of show not tell. What that means is the author isn't really telling what is happening, what it is and etc.. The author is showing by using really good details to describe. An example of this was actually on the first page and the main character Hassan Haij was describing his destiny, "I suspect my destiny was written from the very start, for my first sensation of life was the smell of machi ka salan, a spicy fish curry, rising through the floorboards to the cot in my parents' room above the restaurant," (pg.1). This sentence shows how the smell  of the fish curry went through the floorboards to the cot in his parents room above the restaurant. The author didn't just say that the smell was everywhere.  With a lot of description in this book, I can actually visualize what is happening in the story. It is almost as if I can hear, smell, taste or feel what is being described. The descriptions help the book become more interesting.The Hundred-Foot Journey so far is a very good book. The descriptive details help the book make it more interesting to read and helps me visualize what's happening.