Shooting Dad Rhetorical Analysis

One of the main themes of this story is that sacrifice. The narrator of this story is not given a name but he is fourteen year old. The narrator has a major crush on a women- seventeen year old, Sheila Mant. The narrator finally, and I say finally, asks Sheila on a date via the narrator’s boat. Then the narrator is in a pickle, he catches the biggest bass he ever caught. He has to choose over Sheila on the bass. What does he choose? Sheila of course but towards the end of the story he regrets that decision. Just throughout the story W.D. Wetherel uses many specific imagery. Imagery is a way of writing that the author gives you visual descriptive writing or figurative language. One quote that stood out to me was “There would be other Sheila Mant’s in life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secrets, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made that mistake again.”(41) This quote has a lot of meaning in this story

A twelve year old boy a world away from his parents once wrote in a letter to his parents: “And I have nothing to comfort me, nor is there nothing to be gotten here but sickness and death.” This child was Richard Frethorne, and in “Letter to Father and Mother,” he communicates his desperation caused by the new world’s merciless environment to his parents to persuade them to send food and pay off his accumulated debts from the journey. He accomplishes this with deliberate word choice and allusions to the bible to appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos.

Although the humor and irony is greatly exaggerated in this situation, the author’s style assists the reader in relating to the narrator and becoming more involved in the challenges that are presented within the text. Both in this essay and in Putting Daddy On, I was able to relate to the purpose of each narrative although they used different styles. While this essay focuses more on the effect that humor has on its readers, it is still presented in such a way that the argument becomes relatable to anyone who has encountered a situation similar to this

Addie complex relationship with her family is symbolized by each member of the family relationship to the coffin. How they treat the coffin, what they call it, how close they are to it, and how they protect it. It is because she did not love them equally.

The first story that explores the fear society has of certain women is “Nineteen Thirty-Seven.” In

Adversity is a difficulty that people go through. Adversity helps makes people work hard and overcome obstacles to become successful. The short stories “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty is a story about a man who overcame adversity on the battlefield. A sniper was watching a street when he was shot in the arm. He than shot the man with his revolver and killed the enemy. He checked the body of them many only to find out that it was his brother. “The Trouble with Geniuses, Part II” by Malcolm Gladwell are stories about many people who had struggles that they had to overcome. Malcolm told stories of Chris Langan, Robert Oppenheimer and many more people who had problems throughout their life, but they were still able

Unlike Adam and Eve’s battle of the sexes, Twain highlights how a group of men in a militia are a slave to their pride and naiveté. They have a preconceived idea that with war comes glory, but they do not consider the truths of it. Instead of understanding war as bloodshed and deadly, the narrator is a “naïve young man whose alliance is less with the Confederacy than with the romance of soldiering itself” (Ladd 45). As young men, they see fighting and war as a masculine act to be part of. Their guns are a phallic imagery that symbolizes their masculinity, but it is the very same object that makes them realize what war truly is when they accidentally kill a man. As a result, they feel guilty instead of heroic like they initially thought

In both of the article the authors used inductive reasoning. The article Dismantling the Poverty Trap appeals more to logic, and the other One Family 's Story Shows How The Cycle Of Poverty Is Hard To Break appeals to emotion. Inductive reasoning is when the author states the problem first, and then gives solutions to the problem. In Dismantling the Poverty Trap, Linetta Gilbert says that people in poverty have higher birth rates and maternal mortality rates than wealthy americans.”Those caught in the poverty trap have rates of infant and maternal mortality that are nearly twice as high as those of wealthy Americans.” Saying that families that are wealthier have a better chance to get the resources they need. They are more likely to get better

Society skews what society wants to hear. Things can be often mislead, misheard, or misjudged. Through the ages media information has been skewed and deviated from the genre. The text of ‘Cool party mom’ will be used, to show how it was deviated through the following of tone, and euphemism, dysphemism to skew readers perception of informational text for entertainment purposes.

Hannah Hart is an online creator, mainly focusing on her popular YouTube segment My Drunk Kitchen among other projects, some partnered with Barilla and The Food Network. My Drunk Kitchen is a segment where Hart drinks while cooking and includes a plethora of food-related puns and life lessons along the way. I highly recommend checking it out. In addition to her growing fame starting a few years ago, Hart released a book late last year titled Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded. To quote the book’s synopsis on the inside cover, “There are tales of family, faith, mental health, LESBIAN SEX, and my ongoing journey to love myself (and not just my selfies).”

I’ve got some things going on regarding my daughter today. She means the world to me and I am her best advocate. I will do anything for her without question.

When reading the book Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones, many great figures of speech will stumble upon the reader’s journey. Diana Wynne Jones has used many similes, personifications, and hyperboles to create imagery. Figures of speech such as similes, personifications, and hyperboles help enhance the reader’s imagery. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones has incorporated many great figures of speech in her book.

Sylvia Plath, Wilfred Owen and Emily Dickinson use a wide variety of techniques to explore the loss of identity, will and life. Plath, known as a confessional poet, suffered from severe depression for the majority of her short life. While Plath was a social commentator, Dickinson, a reclusive writer, wrote prolifically on her morbid fascination with death. Owen became an activist and anti-war poet following his traumatic time as a soldier in World War I. The theme of loss is a common thread found amongst the work of these three poets, including the loss of individuality, death and fortitude. Plath, Owen and Dickinson utilise symbolism, repetition, language, tone and imagery in order to explore this theme of loss.

The story divulges disagreeable relationship between the mother and the adolescent daughter. Kincaid is giving the command in the hands of the woman to control the decisions in her life and choosing how to behave. Kincaid writes “this is how to bully a man” and “this is how a man can bully you”. Kincaid makes a point that the relationship is a equilibrium between the two and both have equal freedom to take decisions for their future (Fujita). Kincaid brings power and ability to control to the woman when she talks about making a medicine for abortion; “this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child” (Fujita). The mother in the story is very warm hearted as she wants the best for her daughter, however,

Voltaire once said, “Man is free at the moment he wishes to be” (“Voltaire Quotes”, n.d.). Freedom is something everyone wishes for at least once in their life. Perhaps one wishes for freedom from school or a job, or maybe freedom from someone or one’s self. No matter the case, freedom is highly sought after, or even a necessity is some cases. Before modern times, women did not have as much freedom. They would be forced to marry a man they more than likely did not love, and have to listen to his every will for the rest of her life. Some may think that the women should not have married anyone, but women who were not married could rarely even leave the house. Some women were lucky, or unlucky, if their husbands died, and the wives became widowed. Mrs. Mallard in “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin was one of these lucky few. After Mrs. Mallard finds out her husband died she is struck with a realization that would change her life forever. It is quite ironic how Mr. Mallard’s death brought his wife such great happiness and self-assertion. The literary element of irony helps magnify the tale of rebirth and death of the Mallard family in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour.”