words left unspoken
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In the story, "Words Lefts Unspoken," Leah Hager Cohen writes about her deaf grandfather and how they communicate and show their love to each other. The theme of this short essay is that love can be shown in many different ways. Cohen wants people to understand that being deaf may hinder a person, but it can also amplify life in an extraordinary way.
In "Words Left Unspoken" the author uses the five main senses of a human being. One example of feeling comes really quick in the third sentence and it states, "But against my very young face it felt like a chunk of honed granite swathed in stiff white bristles." Cohen does a great job explaining exactly what she feels because we the reader knows, "A chunk of honed granite," feel's really rough. This story is especially perfect for the physical senses because the grandfather, Sam Cohen, is deaf and needs to use touch, smell, and sight in his everyday life to survive. Another example of the five senses, is when Leah Cohen writes, "It made a shapeless, gusty sound, like a pair of bellows sending up sparks and soot in a blacksmith shop." This example shows the sense of hearing and how it reflects exactly what Cohen heard.
In the essay "Words Left Unspoken" there are tons of examples of comparison and the one that sticks out in my mind is, "He released deep, hushed moans from the back of his throat, like a dreaming dog...