Blog 6

1. "There are fewer than five hundred flavorists in the United States, and they almost never speak about their work outside their laboratories.Hagen is thirty-five. She is a brunette, with straight hair that falls just below her shoulders. She is not thin, but her face is, and it lights up easily." - The Taste Makers

1. I appreciate the fact that the author of this article follows the exact same format all narrative nonfiction follows. It really helps drive the point home on how you should try to blend in facts with the story
2. Reader being me and the fact that we are writing a narrative nonfiction article show that I should craft my story the same way I see many other authors do. Have a fact and then weave it through a story. Also to included little facts that add to the statistics.
3. I will try to use this example and work of of its structure. I will want to show the statistics of Chinese growth in medicine, like how many became doctors before the 1960 and during 1960 and how many became doctors during the 1960's. After i show this statistic I want to put the part in where my grandma wanted to become a doctor. And how she had to go against her best friend to follow her dreams.

2. "To begin, you must master the controller. On the Xbox 360 controller, which looks like a catamaran, there are seventeen possible points of contact. There’s the left trigger and the right trigger, the left bumper and the right bumper, two mushroom-shaped joysticks, a circular four-way pad, two small white buttons, each with triangles molded into them, and a silver dome in the middle that glows green when you press it."
- Painkiller Death streak

1. What i appreciate about this quote is how much detail he puts into describing the controller. He could of just said that here are 4 butons on the back, 2 joy sticks, and 10 buttons on the front.  
2. This quote impacted me because I know whats on a controller. I use to play xbox a lot and I know the buttons inside and out. And the fact that the author put a huge description on each button shows how much attention to detail he has.
3. I would like to use this idea in my story by implementing a huge amount of detail to every single line. And I am not going to skip over the little details like the design of each button. A simple little detail to me would be a big detail for someone who has not played video games before.

3. "A rifle protruded from the young man's pack, but he looked friendly enough; a hitchhiker with a Remington semi-automatic isn't the sort of thing that gives motorists pause in the 49th state. Gallien steered his four-by-four on to the shoulder and told him to climb in."

1. I appreciate how the author gives two different perspectives. When you see someone standing alone in the freezing weather in Alaska you would pick them up. But the fact that the author added that he had a Remington semi automatic would give you second thoughts.
2. When a reader reads this you think first of how bad this man must of felt. Being stuck in the Alaska with no mean of any other transportation. And how much food can one person carry in one bag. So you would generally feel bad about this man. But when you see the rifle in his back you think twice.
3. I would want this idea of people thinking twice about the text. I would give them Suharto's reason for creating the law and them i would give them them a point of view of my grandmother who was affected by the law,