"The Brooklyn Reader," explain how they use descriptive techniques to portray Brooklyn. I compared "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes" and "Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn."

In James Agee's "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes" and Anatole Broyard's "Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn," each author uses vivid imagery to portray Brooklyn. The writers discuss three points in each piece - their view of the city itself, family life in the borough, and their overall feeling of Brooklyn. First, the writers similarly illustrate their perspectives on the city in descriptive prose. On one hand, Broyard depicts the borough as "inviting as a view …

…were walking now, through the Village. He didn't remember the neighborhood very clearly - he said the last time he'd been there was before I was born - and he had looked around him like the sightseers who go through the streets in plastic buses." In conclusion, James Agee's "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes" and Anatole Broyard's "Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn," indeed use extensive techniques to describe Brooklyn through physical, analytical, and personal levels.