Contrasting Descriptions 9/17

Part A-

Description #1- As I sit here in Festival, the different aromas from various food concessions drift my way. There's the smell of the fried food- burgers and french fries- which some how mix with the scent of pasta with cream sauce. I'm sitting here by the window with my friends so that the sun can softly warm my back as we chat about the day. Looking around everyone seems pretty anxious to get to their seats and devour their meal while having good conversations, each with their own "designated group." The lines to get to the food are long, but no one seems to mind, knowing that in the end it was worth the wait. It's funny to watch people as they get out of the lines to "pay" because there is an array of white and black styrofoam containers mixed with the burgers wrapped in foil, sandwiches wrapped in a white paper, and, of course, the occasional plastic container of salad. Everyone seems pretty excited to sit down at the end of they day, munch of some good Festival food, and catch up with their friends. 

Description #2- I'm just sitting here in Festival, waiting for my friends to come sit down so we can finally catch up and do a little gossiping. However, the lines are so long that it seems that it's taking forever. I just grabbed a slice of pizza because it was the quickest line, and it still took me 5 minutes to get a water, pay, and come sit down. And to make matters worse, I'm sitting by the window and the sun is so hot I feel like I could probably re-cook the entire pizza. As I wait, the different smells come together to form a mixture of pizza, burgers, and pasta- a smell which, to say the least, is not all that enticing. I wait and watch my friends move through the check out lines, and as they do, I realize that there are so many styrofoam and plastic containers going through that line, onto the tables, and ultimately into the garbage, that I'm a little confused as to why we don't recycle any of it. There are so many people here, anxious to get their food and get to a table, I'm almost able to compare the entire Festival dining area to a zoo. 

Part B-

This assignment has made me realize that you can look at the same scene through two different lenses and see two entirely different things. Just switching up the adjectives, having some favorable and others less so, is interesting because when I'm writing to describe something positively I don't even think about the negative words that I could use to describe the same scene. I'm still a little confused about rhetoric, but if I have it right than it's just really to interpret the use of words in sentences and see what how it makes the reader view things differently. The first description, like it was supposed to be, is filled with positive words and paints a festive picture in the readers mind. Unlike that description, the second one is filled with negative adjectives, comparing Festival to a zoo because of how crowded it always seems to be. It's almost as if you're looking at the same scene through two different people.