I learnt that when Paul was walking he was walking through the ancestors of others.

 

 

Retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours

 

I liked this sentence because it is worded really well and it is interesting that he is retracing the footsteps of past people. 

“I am walking across the world. I am retracing the vanished footsteps of the ancestors who made the planet ours."

I liked how he wrote that children walked with him through their town and how often he said it happened but he said it in a way that was poetic and descriptive enough to image but short enough for a sentence.

 

It was interesting how he didn’t use actual adjective and instead use hyphenated words to portray the mountain. 

This sentence describes the development of the human species, and how what we now identify as our cleverest features were actually an error in genetics. The structure of the sentence was very enticing, and the thought process was evident. The way in which the thoughts were grouped made the sentence easy, yet interesting to read. 

How long did this take Paul. 

I chose this sentence because it describes how the children move in their own world and it describes the different places that they move, and it gives you a sense of what it must be like. 

 

I liked this sentence because it used ordinary words to create extraordinary and unique phrases. Lessons offered by nature can mean that the children learn best through experiences that they gain when they are surrounded by the nature.

I like this sentence because it represents the kids as wide-eyed and hopeful using thoughtful and descriptive language.

 

I liked this section of the paragraph because there is clear contrast in the length of sentences engaging the reader. When it talks about ‘retracing the vanished footsteps’ it sounds as though it is a metaphor but in reality is quite literal.

-       "They brim with a thousand questions".

-       "These are places where wisdom comes not only from a classroom but also through lessons offered by nature, through calloused hands".

-        "He stood gravely, confidently, potbellied, and naked as the day he was born, with his right hand outstretched in bold greeting on an antique street corner: a welcoming king, a pasha, a khan."

-        "As I walk the world, I think of the children who blazed the trail before me."

-       I liked these 4 sentances as they took me overseas and set the scene and it made me feel what Paul was feeling in that situation. I also liked these sentances as they set the scene and set an image in my mind and put me in Paul’s shoes and made me see this issue in a different perspective.

 

I liked this phrase because it showed that in other parts of the world, people live in fear of others because they don’t know what to do but there, they can do what every they wanted without worrying about others. I also really liked this phrase because flows really well. 

This sentence describes the development of the human species, and how what we now identify as our cleverest features were actually an error in genetics. The structure of the sentence was very enticing, and the thought process was evident. The way in which the thoughts were grouped made the sentence easy, yet interesting to read. 

To me, these two sentences are expressing a lot. Paul is saying that throughout his travels, he has passed villages filled with people that fear him as danger as he is a stranger to them. No matter where he seems to go, children are always coming up to him, walking around with him and helping him as they are not scared, they are curious. They want to know more. The adults fear him for he could bring danger to them. 

 

This sentence made what he was describing very detailed and really to the point of what he was trying to get across. The mountains were described in great detail using adjectives, telling the reader what he is experiencing at that moment in time when he visited the Mountains of Tajikistan.
 
 

 

I really enjoyed reading this piece of text as it transported me into the lens that Paul was looking through, I liked how he noticed all those little things that he encountered that really shaped his thinking. The expressive language described the places and the situations he was in and made me feel like I was walking through the fields of turkey, strolling through the villages of Georgia or passing a bus in Palestine.

 

o   Saw-toothed peaks of the Hindu Kush- This line helps us imagine how sharp the peaks on these amazing mountains are. The author hasn’t used the word sharp, over even said mountains, he simply shows this through his creative language and does not directly tell us.