I am responding to Amaya’s discussion post. She focused on giving a strong summary of each story and proceeded to find that in each passage the author’s utilized “hooks” for their stories. The “hooks” engage the reader and assure that the reader not only follows the story but becomes invested in it.

I focused on how appeal to emotion is a characteristic of good writing. I think the two factors we pointed out go hand in hand and in order to have “hooks” you tend to need an appeal to emotion parallel with it. I see through her response that Amaya values engaging writing that also makes itself easy to follow and comprehend through use of logical and strategic examples.