Blog #12

My favorite sentence from “Hawaii`i’s Story by Hawaii`i’s Queen” is the sentence in which she describes the house that her husband took her to after they were married. “It is a large square, white house, with pillars and porticos on all sides, really a palatial dwelling, as comfortable in its appointments as it is inviting in its aspects; its front is distant from the street far enough to avoid the dust and noise.”  This sentence is my favorite because she describes the house in way that allowed me to picture it as if I were actually there. I love plantation homes and as I was reading this I was able to vividly imagine this house and its location.  This is the style of home that I would love to live in with rocking chairs in the front by the pillars and set back on the property so that there is a real sense of privacy.  I did find the way that she described it to be a palatial dwelling a little confusing because I did not know the exact meaning of palatial and thought that most people who read this would find it a bit confusing if they did not know the meaning of this word either. This sentence stuck out the most to me because of the details and the image I was able to make from it.