Analysis Assignment To shush or not to shush? That is the question. We have all been there- sitting in the movie theater, trying to engulf ourselves in a rich film, when a fellow moviegoer just can 't stop gabbing. Is a shush an appropriate response? In Phillip Lopate’s “Confessions of a Shusher”, Lopate uses exaggeratory satire, pace, and tone, to justify his position as a movie theater shusher. On a broader spectrum, Lopate also explores the social appropriation of public etiquette, as well as how to address a stranger who misuses it. In the first body paragraph, Lopate dissects the opening steps in responding to an offender. He explains the process of undergoing a lengthy self-analysis, in which he uses detailed syntax and an inflective …show more content…
We see the use of pace when he dissects the interaction between the women carrying on a conversation about apples and dinner plans during his film. While in previous paragraphs, Lopate’s main focus is his sequential approach to chatty moviegoers, by using the story about the women, he is able to transition to an observance of occurrences that he encounters in the movie setting. In the final paragraphs, Lopate seems to have a moment of aggrandizement, where he synthesizes that “to refuse solitude is to violate the social contract that should be written on each ticket stub.” Finally, he attributes the people 's talkative tendencies to a fear of solitude, and an erosion to what it means to be a member of the public. At this point in the passage, there is a change of tone, from which the Lopate reverts from the main idea of shushing, to examining the unfortunate social habits of society today. It is in these statements that he answers his thesis and announces his reluctant acceptance to the situation at