Sounds Of Summer
Summer In the City
Katharine Byrne sets out to describe her summer life as a child in Sounds of Summer. Although the events that she recalls take place in a city, she brings the images to life and gives them a beauty of their own. She looks past the industrial nature of the city and shows how it can be full of life. Byrne opens by saying that she is "not now remembering the bird songs at dawn or the lapping of waves against a shore or a rustle of leaves in sunlight"(Byrne 31). She uses the conjunction "but" to show that her memories of summer are much different than what she was previously describing. Her sounds of summer are extraordinarily unique. The childhood memories that she describes take place in a "city of sweltering summers".
There are many instances where the city life that Byrne describes takes on a beauty equal to that of nature. For example, her description of the "alley noises of the local commerce" project lively image in my mind. She hears "the clomp of the......
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