"The Last Stop"

In the essay, The Last Stop, a college student visits a funeral home. Throughout the essay he described his experience visiting a funeral home, his observations, assumptions, and thoughts. His first assumption is what it would look like, he assumes it would be a rather lavish and beautiful place, when it was just an average maybe out of place looking building. He sees a large clock underneath the funeral home sign and seems surprised that it is there. Another assumption the write makes is what the funeral director would look like, his guesses were pretty on par; a simple, old looking man, described as "death on two legs." Throughout the essay the writer describes to look of the inside of the home, what the two talked about, he described in depth what the morticians did to the bodies, where they stored them, etc. He talked about the casket "show room" where different sorts of coffins could be purchased. The funeral director showed Cable the embalming room, where they restore the bodies, he called the restoration a "beautiful work of craftsmanship." All through the essay the writer seemed very observant, just taking everything in. It didn't quite seem to affect him as he thought it would, he was just recording a new experience.

I think the writer did a great job successfully conveying his impression of the funeral home,. His writing was very detailed and descriptive. This essay will help me in my writing by noticing and recording little thoughts and details that may not seem as important as the "big stuff" but are interesting to the reader and aid the description of the overall experience.