It’s not very often we stop to look and appreciate what is around us. There are so many small things in our day-to-day lives that pass under our radar, but would be greatly missed if they were to suddenly cease to exist. We all have those special things that make our experiences unique, whether it is Mom’s homemade casserole, or those hard candies you get from the liquor store that you have eaten since you were a kid. It is human nature to take for granted, that which has become a routine in our lives. We forget the importance it holds, because it has become ordinary. In Larry Woiwode’s “Ode to an Orange”, he addresses this state of being ordinary. Observing the ordinary is a way of understanding that there is so much more to the world around us than what we actually see at a glance. But, because these certain spectacles have become ordinary, there is a lack of sight into what is truly happening in the world. So as we look at Woiwode’s ode, we can analyze how he turns this orange, what to us is an ordinary object of use, into a something memorable. We will see how he uses each of the senses to draw life into this ordinary fruit. When reading “Ode to an Orange,” Woiwode recaptured the rarity and luxury of getting an orange at that time and age. Today we see an orange and it is just another fruit that is often passed over. But at that time an orange was a treasure. In the text Woiwode says, “so that on Christmas day you would find yourself tunneling down to the country of China, in order to reach the rounded bulge at the tip of the toe which meant that you had received a personal reminder of another state of existence, wholly separate from your own” (McQuade, 49). Woiwode shows how greatly the value of an orange has decreased over the years. He never says this in the essay but this can be assessed, because of how different our initial perspectives of the fruit has changed. Woiwode singles the orange out, and dissects every aspect of the orange just to establish that the orange is a very special fruit. At the time, the orange was not only a rarity, but it was an actual experience. It was very different from the normal foods that they primarily feasted on. Woiwode draws on each of the five senses to fulfill the overall experience of the orange. Throughout the essay, he speaks of the oranges appearance as if it were one of the Seven Wonders. He writes, “Each orange, stripped of its protective wrapping, as vivid in your vision as a pebbled sun, glowing in the light, as if giving off the warmth that came through the windows from the real winter sun”(McQuade, 48-49). Oranges were a glimpse of a different world. Receiving an orange in the monotone, colorless, cold o