Walking With Him

Appealing and successful descriptive writing calls for a cute observation. In Akers’ essay, she spots a frog fron in a bathroom and then she starts to draws on the relationship between the tiny frog and the surroundings. Setting off typographically, Akers provides who, where, what , and when in the first ten paragraphs, leaving how the frog will fare for the rest of the essay. She also pinpoints some “contrasts” or “unbalance”, i.e. “I wasn’t expecting to find a frog in a Park Service bathroom,” We may find this kind of contrast like Akers’. Drawing on the contrast, work it into a descriptive paragraph or essay.