Analysis of Bel AirIn the essay “Bel Air: The automobile as an object of art; » Daniel L Guillory uses a combination of narrative and expository writing to show his audience the connection between an icon, which in his case is a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air, and the effect it can have on a person. essay with narrative writing. He tells his audience how he was in Illinois when he came across a flea market. He saw a 1929 Model A Ford, but the price was too high for him. The farmer told him his friend was selling a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air down the street. So Guillory went to look at the car and ended up buying it. By beginning this essay with narrative writing, it captures the attention of the reader, especially those with the same literary repertoire. This is what happened in my case. I have a certain fascination with cars, so when I noticed it was a car, it just caught my attention and held it. Guillory then moved into expository writing. He likens his 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air to "every man's spaceship," and he relates it to a spaceship because the year before the car was made, Sputnik was launched. He then adds: “Eisenhower was safely locked away in the White House, Elvis was king, and the Cold War was turning frigid, as the Conelrad Civil Defense logo on the radio dial suggests. » Just looking at this car reminded him of what was happening when the car was made. Then he said: “I vaguely understood that by owning this car, I was recovering part of my past and – by a kind of Proustian logic – I was expanding my present. » To understand the term used in this sentence, you need to know the French author Marcel Proust. In his novel Remembrance of Things Past, the narrator eats a piece of cake which takes him back to his childhood. Thus, the Proustian term refers to when an object has the power to take us back to the past. I know what this experience feels like. My first car was a blue 1994 Hyundai Elantra GLS. I loved that car. I would pamper him with the best gas, the best oil; and I washed it once a week. I would go everywhere with my car.