Walk the Line

Authors include disturbing and shocking events in their text because it portrays the seriousness of their point better and makes the situation more life like and believable. I think the vivid description is necessary most of the time unless it is a trivial event when the description is irrelevant. While these descriptions may have a bad affect on the reader, like shocking them or causing a bout of depressed feelings, they help to enhance the book. The disturbing event that Khaled Hosseini described was necessary and the description was valid because the rest of the book will probably revolve around this event, so to make it stand out and signify its important it had to be vivid and even disturbing.