Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

The story Brownies in the book "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" includes a variety of description and story-telling techniques. The description of the troop leader Mrs. Margolin, really stood out to me and I could picture her exactly. The author uses many similies in the writting, an example would be "She wagged her index finger perfunctorily, like a winshield wiper.", or You can just imagine a parent standing in front of you telling you no, and what not to do. Another similie is "Whose hair hung past her butt like a hawaiian hula dancer." The description she uses for the "invaders" or the caucasion troop, "the ten white girls behind us were instantly real and memorable, with their long shampoo-comercial hair, straight as spaghetti from the box." I really enjoyed this story because of how descriptive it was. Everything was described and or compared to something so that you could picture it as soon as you read it.