Section 2: Thoughts (pgs. 110-114)

110 - Shoeless:
In the poem, Shoeless, I love how Annie always incorporated events from before into the story. She added the time when she noticed she said "very" a lot (the poem forbidden words) and then she included it with the blurbs at the bottom when she was explaining something else. Here is what it said, "Very, very, very much." By adding that element, it truly makes you think back to what happened before in the story, which really keeps you deeply incorporated in the story.

114 - Shoeless:
I thought that it was very creative how throughout the whole story, the author added a different tone to the poems for specific parts. This was especially noticeable when Annie was explaining her running stride on page 114. When she was explaining it it was very choppy and not long winded, like she was running while explaining it. However, at more sentimental parts, the author made the poems more long-winded, such as the time when Annie was flipping through the pictures with her grandfather, explaining each one with complete sentences. It gives more than words to the poem, it adds the feeling.