Edited FFW:
For the longest time, one thing had always seemed one step ahead of me, always just out of reach. For as long as I could remember, my brother and I had yearned to have a cat. However, for one reason or another, this wish never came to be, staying out of sight, and receding into the shadows: As I grew older, it seemed like a dream, and I couldn't quite remember what the dream was about as the possibilities for this dream to be a reality grew lesser and lesser, further and further away from tangibility. However, though I didn't know it, I was wrong. What had been a fantasy for my family became a reality suddenly, in the blink of an eye. When I finally had taken in the news, it took me minutes to register for me. I couldn't understand what it meant, but after time passed, it came to me, and I was joyful, though a part of me still couldn't believe that a far-off fantasy had burst into reality, even though fantasies are never supposed to touch the real world.
Response:
Here, I attempted to mimic, or use, some of Maxine Hong Kingston's writing styles. For me, a "style" is how something makes you feel, which is a combination of both the content (what is said) and the form (how it's said). In my opinion, content gives the basic feeling of the piece, and the form modifies that basic feeling, fine-tuning it to the author's desire.
So, I tried to tap into Kingston's style: More than just using figurative language or a combination of clauses in a sentence, I tried to use it to achieve a similar purpose. I thought Kingston used figurative language a lot to emphasize things, like the importance and also unworldly power/uniqueness of giving birth, so I used figurative language to emphasize things in my paragraph as well. I also used the combination of multiple clauses in a sentence as well. I thought Kingston used this technique/style to give a visual/deeper insight onto her feelings on the subject of those clauses, which is something I also tried to repeat here.
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