Week 3 - Memorable Scene

This is the house that is described in page 105. This house is particularly an important setting as one of the most shocking scenes takes place here. While this is an important setting, however, there wasn't much of depiction of its appearnce and it was a bit difficult for me to understand the meager describtion. So I added some of my imagination in this drawing. Now let me explain this drawing more specifically.

"...on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road."(pg.105)

From this quote, I could figure out that the house is pretty big and located in suburb area. This made me draw the house in a big scale and draw a woods behind the house.

"The snow was largely melted on the macadam and in the southfacing fields and woods."(pg.105)

According to this, there are some pools of snow run-off on the road and surrounding areas so I also drew pools everywhere.

"The house was tall and stately with white doric columns across the front."(pg.105)

Clearly the house is big and looks solemn. I tried to realize that heavy feeling onto a drawing.

"...white doric columns across the front"(pg.105)

I couldn't really clarify what this meant so I just drew a Greek-style entrance.

"A port cochere at the side."(pg.105)

I didn't know what 'port cochere' mean so I looked it up in a dictionary. It said it's kind of an entrance for a car or carriage but this definition still didn't clarify the exact image of the house. So, I just drew a garrage entrance at the very right.

"A gravel drive that curved up through a field of dead grass."(pg.50)

This was a bit confusing too. The first thing that confused me was the definition of the 'gravel drive'. Gravel is little, round stone but what is gravel drive? A grave path, perhaps? And even if I guess it right, it was difficult to understand this part entirely. So, I just ignored this part.

"The windows were oddly intact."(pg.105)

I drew all of the windows in a great shape because of this line. Meanwhile, other parts of the house, such as walls and rooves don't look so nice.

The reason why this place is so important?

You know it. You know that so a bloody happening took place inside a lock of this house. I also drew that brutal scene as realistically as I could but gave up uploading it because it wasn't appropriate for growing buds like you guys.(talk to me, if you still want to see it) Anyway, that scene was the most shocking scene so far because it was the first time people's eating people is visually shown. I'm sure you all were confused and shocked when you went through this part of the book. The author may have taken advantage of this brutality to describe how chaotic the current world is in the book. Other than that, he may have wanted to make the readers' emotions swing by providing them with a shocking scene.