Cooking
Wolff writes, “Robert Frost made his visit in November of 1960, just a week after the general election. It tells you something about our school that the prospect of his arrival cooked up more interest than the contest between Nixon and Kennedy, which for most of us was no contest at all.” Cooking denotes the building up of excitement among the learners upon learning about Robert Frost’s impending visit to their school. The learners are enthusiastic about the visit.
Trophy
Wolff explains, “I’m not exaggerating the importance to us of these trophy meetings. We cared. And I cared as much as anyone, because I not only read writers, I read about writers. I knew that Maupassant, whose stories I loved, had taken up when you by Flaubert and Turgenev; Faulkner by Sherwood Anderson.” A trophy denotes the great consequence of the visit. The chance to behold a legendary writer is analogous to earning a worthy trophy. The successful writers are invited to motivate the boys so they can improve their creativity and works towards prosperous writing careers.
Classic
Wolff expounds, “George Kellogg was the editor of our literary review, Troubadour. The review was very old and still appeared in its original format, on stiff heavy pages, in an engraved typeface that made every poem and story look like a time-worn classic.” The classic appearance of the works denotes longstanding formatting which is intended to appeal to the readers. Structures are central to the act of charming readers.
