In my writing 102 class this week we had to read an essay that was written by my teacher called "The Town Hangout". In her essay you could get a sense of who she was without her directly telling you. She wrote about a bowling alley that she use to go bowling at with her family, but she had first gone there with her aunt as a child. The author had a large family and they went bowling at the bowling alley in Hanover, because it was a cheap way to have fun. From the reading you can come to the conclusion that her family did not have a lot of money so the bowling alley was the prefect place to have fun together. You can see that the author has been to the bowling alley many times because she knew a lot about the place. She noticed the people who worked there seemed to be family, so it was a family owned bowling alley. The author talked a lot about the food that was served at the snack stand and that it was a random variety of snacks. They even had onion rings, which I never thought they would serve at a bowling alley.
After reading her essay you almost feel as though you have been to that bowling alley before because of the way she talks about what goes on at the bowling alley and the details of what you see when you are there. When I was younger my dad use to take me to a bowling alley in Arlington called Lanes and Games that had lanes on the first and second floor. For some reason I could not get over the idea that you could have bowling lanes on the second floor of a building. The food at the pub at the bowling alley was so good. I remember the curly fries were so perfectly curly and always made my hand feel greasy. I hated the shoes too because they were so smelly, but yo had to wear them if you wanted to bowl. I'll never forget bowling there as a child and remember the smell and the taste of those curly fries whenever I go bowling.
