ANALYSIS Jeannette Walls, uses the rhetorical strategies of narration, description and lastly process analysis, to illustrate the idea of independence and her appreciation for the unconventional dysfunctionality of her family. Personally, my understanding of the authors take- home-idea, was how the dysfunctionality she was raised in, fostered the unconventional behavior she exuded as a child. To help with the introduction of the author take home idea of independence, she uses the rhetorical strategy of narration. “It's my earliest memory. I was three years old, and we were living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town whose name I never knew.” The author introduces the readers to her story, by giving them a description that she lived in a trailer park as a child, which automatically alarms the reader as to the complexities and the struggles of living in a trailer and the safety risks it poses to a child. Furthermore, the author continues to set the tone of independence: by narrating the events prior to the …show more content…
“ They asked what I was doing cooking hot dogs by myself at the age of three. It was easy, I said. You just put the hot dogs in the water and boil them. It wasn't like there was some complicated recipe that you had to be old enough to follow.” The world “complicated” eludes to the fact that such a complicated task, seems simple to her further showing her lack of dependence on her parents. “It was easy, I said. You just put the hot dogs in the water and boil them. It wasn't like there was some complicated recipe that you had to be old enough to follow.” Lastly, here we see the authors continuous use of narration to show the intellectual capabilities that foster the self independence we have come to understand from the