The Dark Art of Description

From the reading last Tuesday, what is the author Patricia Hampl's purpose in writing about description and word choice in, The Dark Art of Description? Why are the last few paragraphs, about the story she tells with one of her students, significant to the purpose?

The Dark Art of Description's purpose it to explain to people who write that you can pretty much make anything you write about, no mater how boring the subject is, interesting and exciting with the the right word choice and description. I know this is true but very few have the writing skills to be able to make anything sound good. When I have written essays, I have always thought that there is only so much you can write about but Hampl disagrees. You can add so much detail and description to your writing to make it sound like the most interesting thing ever. It is just the matter of how you write it.

The last few paragraphs proves her point exactly. Her student told her that he lived in a boring town and there was nothing to write about. She tries to explain to her student that he is overlooking what is so exciting about his town. She goes on to explain that the thing that is so exciting about the town is really how boring the town is.