The Exotic Murree Hills-Positive (Essay Sample)

Point of View Essay
Description
The Exotic Murree Hills- Positive
One of the beautiful places I have ever visited indeed resembles a paradise. As one enters the place it seems like someone has showered perfumes all around. I wish I could stay there for the whole of my life. In mid-summer mornings the mist on the grass seems like pearls shining everywhere. The place looks like as if you can touch the icy clouds flying high up in the dark grey sky, the sky full of clouds seems like hugging the long conifers, pines and deodars. Pine nuts and conifers hanging from the trees looks like lanterns hanging for the travellers everywhere. Beautiful and coloured wild flowers are spreaded on the grass enhancing the beauty of the hills. Butterflies on the flowers increase the scenic beauty of the place and captures the attention of the visitors. The rushing streams flowing, sounds like rain about to arrive. Waterfall scene seems to be the most attractive of all and adds breathtaking view. Aroma of hydrangea and clematis grown on the mountains smells like someone has worn perfumes. The cool, perfumed ladened breeze and scent of pines feel like a soothing balm on tired souls. Roads like the maze of winding tracks with contended faces everywhere and several sloped roof houses all around and on the mountains. Murree hills’ scenic beauty and heavenly charms and appeal attract the visitors and people often visit to forget their stress and worries. The beauty acts as medicine for the weary and exhausted souls.
The Exotic Murree Hills- Negative
Murree hills, what a pit? Craggy ugly looking mountains spread all over. I wish I would have never visited this unpleasant place. I don’t know why I have ever visited such a dump place. No sound of cars, isolation everywhere as if death has had her way here. The gigantic and motionless conifers, pines and deodars, feel like as if a musician has forgotten a melody. The tall trees resemble as if ogres trying to take hold of you. The place looks more like a junkyard in the rainy season. The cool, wheezing perfumed breeze has changed into an offensive smell. The rain often accompanied by thunder and lightning confined the people indoors. Noise of thunder is as clouds grumbling just like cannons. Long winding tracks are puzzling. Due to rainy weather roads get too much slippery and become the cause of accidents. Land sliding causes jagged rocks block the way. Gigantic and humongous grassy mountains add fears and give a stomach-churning feeling. Unbearable scent of wild flowers hydrangea and clematis everywhere combines with the scent of rain and becomes nauseating.
Rhetorical Analysis:
After reviewing the writer’s tool box I have written positive and negative description of the Murree hills in a rainy season and enjoyed writing the description. At first, I used the first tool that is, "direct statement of meaning”. I have conveyed my positive and negative attitude towards Murree hills by a topic sentence to make my readers’ know about my likes and dislikes of the Murree hills in a rainy season. For instance, by using the sentence, "one of the beautiful places I have ever visited indeed resembles a paradise" shows my likeness for the place in the positive description and to give emphasis to the beauty of Murree hills. In the same way by using, "Murree hills, what a pit?" emphasize my negative description of the place.
I then reflected my word choice. Through word choice tool I tried to make my readers feel and experience the place in both positive and negative manner. I have used a few similar sentences to describe Murree hills in both positive and negative descriptions and to fit them according to the temperament of the description. For instance, "Aroma of hydrangea and clematis grown on the mountains smells like someone has worn perfumes" changes to "Unbearable scent of wild flowers hydrangea and clematis everywhere combines with the scent of rain and becomes nauseating”. In both the paragraphs I have described the wild flowers in different moods. I discussed the roads of Murree differently in both positive and negative descriptions. In positive I described them as maze and in negative description I described them as puzzling and strange. Such as, "Roads like the maze of winding tracks" changes to "Long winding tracks are puzzling”.
Next, the tool I have used in selection/ omission of details. To make my positive description positive I have used, "beautiful”, "paradise”, "sky full of icy clouds”, "breathtaking view”, "cool”, "perfume ladened breeze”. I have not described or used any ugly words in my positive description. In the negative description I deleted all the positive description. If I would have used the negative words in the positive description the reader would perceive the paradise more like a junkyard. I used, "dump place”, "motionless conifers, pine and deodars”, breeze changed to offensive smell”. I have simply described the beauty of the aroma of the wild flowers, hydrangea and clematis in the positive description and omitted their scent in the negative passage.
One of the most important writer’s tool box that makes the writing attractive and makes the reader really feel the place is the use of similes, metaphors, repetition of sounds and personification. I was much impressed by the beauty of Murree hills so in order to make my description impressive and attractive I have used personification in positive description such as, "the sky full of clouds seems like hugging the long c...