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Summary Of That Lean And Hungry Look By Suzanne Britt

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Every single person has a unique personality; however, is it possible to narrow all of those personalities down into two polar categories? Suzanne Britt, the author of the essay “That Lean and Hungry Look”, does just so as she compares the various characteristics of fat people and thin people. Her focused insight on the personalities of both fat and thin people offer interesting comparisons, but ultimately she makes key realizations about both types of people through her writing structure. In the essay, “That Lean and Hungry Look”, the author, Suzanne Britt, effectively reveals specific traits that characterize fat people and thin people through her use of directed paragraphs, short-sentence structure, and intended clichés to achieve a semiserious tone. Firstly, Britt uses directed paragraphs that are led by focused topic sentences. She clearly structures each paragraph by beginning each with a short sentence that sets up the different characteristic of fat and thin people being discussed. This clear structure of her essay allows the reader to easily comprehend her comparisons and take the author’s insight on certain personality traits into account when forming an opinion. In addition, the author’s use of short-structured topic sentences not only sets up the main focus of each paragraph, but it outlines and highlights the various clichés Britt utilizes in her essay. These clichés pertain to the personality traits she says fat people possess and thin people lack; these

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