Mint Snowball Reading Response

    One of the narratives was Mint Snowball by Naomi Shibab Nye. It's about a mint snowball recipe from this girls past family, but the recipe was lost so she never got to try the great mint snowball her family talks about. It was her great grandfather's recipe that he specialized in. She believes her personality connects to the mint snowball even though she's never seen or tasted it.

   At the end of this personal narrative the narrator asks a few rhetorical questions that end the story. All the questions relate to the lost snowball recipe and if she will ever get to taste the snowball. Her great grandfather sold pills in a drugstore in Illinois, but had the secret recipe of the mint snowball that she never got.

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