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Jeanette Rhetorical Analysis

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The tone of this excerpt is overly yielding. The narrator has a superficial lifestyle where she is happy with the home she lives in and all of the amenities she has while her parents live a content lifestyle, where they have done right by their daughter and allowed her to grow up to where she is today. The narrator cannot bare to see her parents in the state that they are in and feels that although her parents are happy living on the streets that they shouldn’t because they don’t live in an actual home.
This tree symbolizes the narrator’s life. As a child, she had gone in every direction that her parents had taken her. Similar to how the wind blew the tree into its current position, Jeanette’s parents directed her childhood through all

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