"The Brooklyn Reader," explain how they use descriptive techniques to portray Brooklyn. I compared "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes" and "Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn."

In James Agee's "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes" and Anatole Broyard's "Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn," each author uses vivid imagery to portray Brooklyn. The writers discuss three points in each piece - their view of the city itself, family life in the borough, and their overall feeling of Brooklyn.
First, the writers similarly illustrate their perspectives on the city in descriptive prose. On one hand, Broyard depicts the borough as "inviting as a view of a squalid village would seem to a princess imprisoned in an ivory tower." On the other hand, Agee explains that you only have to…