1. The Green Pepper
English 2 (ENGL 0205)
Assignment 1
Melika Bordbar (0311455)
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5. On Wednesday in English class during English class work, Mr.Woon told
us” to come forward and write down the name of one vegetable. He started from front
row from the left side, and I was sitting in second row from the right side. I started
thinking to what kind of vegetable do I know in English and also what I wanted to
choose. After realizing in my mind, finally I decided to choose a broccoli or lettuce, but
when I went to wrote down my vegetable name, my both choices were picked with
another person’s before me. After all, I thought for a second and green pepper came to
my mind. I checked the list and hopefully it was not in a list, so I just wrote down it and
back to my sit. Actually we did not know why our lecturer made us to choose one
vegetable till one week later than that day. Finally after a week, he told us” you suppose
to buy your vegetable, observe it, and after that write an essay about your observing
process.”
Fortunately, when I went to kitchen to research for green pepper in
refrigerator, I found only one complete green pepper and one half, so I picked the
complete one and I started my work in a kitchen. My pepper color was green but I saw
the red one, yellow one and also orange one before. My observing was started from
taking the green pepper out of the refrigerator. On that moment, I felt it was so cold and
shiny. I started to touch it, and I felt a very soft skin but firm and hard. My green pepper
shape was slightly different with another one which I have seen before. This green
pepper shape was slightly cylindrical.
I held the green pepper in front of my face and I turned it around very
slowly, I noticed that the top of the green pepper was light green and the bottom was
dark green. I also tried to see from the top, I found that it was like a flower. Again I kept
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6. my vegetable in front of my face; it was look like a bell. So I was excited to try my
vegetable sound, I held my vegetable near to my ear, flipped at the skin but I heard a
hollow sound. I felt like a drum sound. Again I tried to touch the skin, I felt very smooth
but this time, I noticed that my vegetable skin also had an uneven surface.
Now it’s the time to smell, cut and taste it. I held my vegetable near to my
noise to smell it, the smell was very sharp and I got headache after smelling, but
somehow my mother like this smell and she told me “it is very sweet and nice smell”.
After observing the outer physical details, I started to cut it and observing the inner
physical details, which was very interesting part for me. When I started to cut my
vegetable, I heard the crispy sound and it was a little watery. I felt very good and
excited, because I think the crispy sound is a very lovely and delicious sound. After that,
I tried to taste a little of green pepper. The taste was like nothing at first trying, but I tried
again and I felt a little bitter, very little astringent, at the end a little sweet and also it was
crispy and watery. I also tried to cut from length and width but very thin piece, so I found
from the length was like a heart shape and from the width part was like a flower. I felt
very excited because I found a new design for salad, food and so on.
Finally, I started to observe the inside of my vegetable. When I cut my
green pepper at a first glance, I just saw empty space and a ball of white flesh with gold
beads. After that I touched the white flesh ball and it was a spongy flesh. I was so
excited because it reminded me inside of the sea. I also touched the seeds; they were
hard, slippery, very small, circle and blond color. The spongy white flesh ball with gold
beads was stick together with stem. However, this part could easily separate from the
stem and flesh of green pepper. After all of these observing, again I looked at my
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7. vegetable skin and I noticed the skin was not soft and hard any more, and it was wrinkle
and sleazy. I also touch the spongy white flesh ball again, it was not watery the same as
before and it was dry.
In brief, at first I was thinking this assignment can be the boring
assignment and the worst one, but now I think observing can be the best way for
understanding to improve our writing method and it can be make us very creative and
objective. I use 4 days for this assignment and I really enjoy my time because now I can
feel, I am in an improving way of my writing. Before I observed the green pepper, I just
saw this vegetable in food and salads and I just ate it and never had I thought about it in
this way. My challenge in this essay was curbing my imagination and preventing myself
from falling into the natural desire to write creatively. I hope, I will observe more and
more in future until my writing and also my English words will be better.
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