Practice Essay Day 3

        "It did everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street." In this excerpt from Ann Petry's The Street we are introduced to an urban setting that starts as windy day, however through the use of imagery, personification, and figurative language we explore a different relationship the wind carries with the character Lutie Johnson. Even though the relationship with the wind is not established until a couple paragraphs later in the passage, we come to be more acquainted with the "personality" of the wind before the connection is made. Through the extended personification and vivid imagery we begin to see the true relationship Lutie Johnson will carry with this Urban Setting.
            "Fingering its way along the curb,..." through extended personification as an audience we begin to fill the wind taking on a very human like form. Setting the tone to how vicious the wind is and how inconvenient it is for the people walking in the streets. All the people want to do is get out of the way so that the wind does not take over them as they are walking by. The personification and the vivid imagery provided when we first meet the character Lutie Johnson provides a meeting of what seems like two enemy's. Lutie Johnson does not seem to fond of the wind moving the sign she is trying to read, however at the same time she does not seem phased by the gusts of wind that are lifting her hair and making her feel naked in the back of the neck. The fact that not only was Lutie Johnson trying to take refuge but what seemed like actual move into the city she encountered the wind in tells us as an audience that the wind does not become such a big problem to her.
             The sudden meeting of the wind with Lutie Johnson seems very unkind and unwanted as set up by the imagery and extended personification in this excerpt. Without any verbal exchange to what seems like two characters the setting for Lutie Johnson is set in the first encounter.