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  In the story, Roads To Quoz written by William Least Heat-Moon is a very casual story focusing on the author's exploration of rural america. In the excerpt that we were given, the writer used 3 main things to help get their point across better to us, the readers. These are, Form, structure and language. He also wrote this article in the first person to help us visualize what was going on while he is exploring the county store. Like I said earlier, I will be focusing on the Form structure and language.

To begin with, I will be focusing on the form that the author used throughout the text. The author used a narrative type of writing, which was in first person. This helps us understand the perspective of the narrator and helps us see what he is experiencing. This is shown where the author used words like, standard, and exceeds, to describe what was in front of him. This shows his opinion on certain things and these different words can easily put images in our minds. The author also wrote the article in the way of a short story that focuses on the country store and what he witnessed in the small town. An example of this is when the author wrote “the look of an old village grocery” and then followed it with “diminishing across America”. This also shows the setting of not only the grocery store but the town in all, saying that the setting in them is becoming rare and rare and adding more imagery into the short story.

Secondly, something else that the author used to get his point across to the readers was the structure. The story is chronological and helps us follow what is going on in the story easier. The short story has the structure of 3 medium sized paragraphs. For the structure of this story, it perfectly fits the form. Not only is it easy to read, but it is also very appealing to the eye while reading it. This also helps the story be very straightforward and not confusing and to the point, which really helps it be down to earth and also matches up with the story as it is a true story described by the narrator in a first person point of view. Overall, the structure of this story really helps add to the form and makes it very appealing and simple to read.

Finally I will be focusing on the vocabulary of the short story. The first words that popped out to me while reading the text were, when the author was talking about meat and cheese counters. They mentioned words like Hoagies or Zeppelins. I feel like this can show the area's slang that the narrator is in and can show the slang of the small town that he is visiting. This also adds to the aged grocery store and can show how places like this are getting rarer and rarer in america. Not only that but the author used good transitions to make the story flow smoother. One of these transitions is “becomes a grinder” and it easily links the vocabulary with the falling out of small town stores. Lastly, the author uses very good adjectives to describe the surroundings and what is going on around him and in the store. These adjectives help us visualize just like the narrator what he saw in front of him. Always keeping the story interesting until the end.