As author George Saunders said in “Thank You, Esther Forbes” on page 62, “By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.” In this simple, yet elegant sentence I would elaborate its meaning as, The more vocabulary you have at your disposal the more vividly you can describe the world around you. Let me give you an example; If you and a 5th grader see an apple on a chair, the one with the more broad vocabulary would be able to describe said apple better, but the argument author Saunders makes is should you? Should you describe the apple sitting in the chair with crippling detail or should you just say simply, yet elegantly “The red apple sat upon the birch wood chair.”
