Villaseñor uses hyperbole to highlight the radical ideas that pessimism can cause a person think, while the use of imagery presents the better option of acknowledging the positives. Reader do not want to feel the need to massacre those that have caused Villaseñor pain and suffering throughout his childhood. However, they rejoice at the end when Villaseñor poses the question of whether or not he had a person in his life that inspired him to write and given him the determination to continue. Readers can emotionally connect to this because many can understand the significance a person can have in inspiring them and the community around
90, Pathos Pg. 132. How & Effect: In this case, Ehrenreich fuses both her mental/physical feelings and work experiences into her rhetorical strategies. Due to this, the effect is that the readers are able to Ehrenreich’s frustration about her working conditions and the physical ailments that the poor workers suffer everyday because of their jobs; the credible exaggeration and emotional appeal effectively allows Ehrenreich to bring realization about poverty to the readers. Why: Ehrenreich’s main goal is to induce the readers about the fact that poverty is something that needs to be dealt with, through her credible and personal use of rhetorical
Donte is at a low point in his life, and the author can capture the scene vividly. Another example of empathy
The stories usually follow young women that are trying to cope with different types of losses, some recent while others occurred long before. In most of the stories, the women address their problems in an attempt to rid themselves of the predicaments they are facing, which was sometimes caused by an influential male character. So, even though the women can make bad choices because of the people they choose to surround themselves with, they can still succeed after they have rid themselves of the bad influences. In “Red Lights Like Laughter” Davis creates a story about a couple living in a run down room, with a female protagonist that is upset “The Fire”. The women has conflicting emotions for her boyfriend as a result of “The Fire” and Davis shows how she feels by contrasting the blizzard outside with the hotel room that she shared with her boyfriend where “All she could do was gulp and gasp: the heat of the small room overwhelming.
Despite the fact that Nancy Mairs chose a well diction and sarcastic tone to evoke readers empathy toward her essay , she also evokes a sympathetic response to her audience by telling reader that she does not feel sorry for being a cripple. She uses satirical description of her feelings , by allowing reader to see that she also felt sympathy for herself. Although Mairs, evokes empathy when telling her story, her sympathetic response toward her illness shows that she felt disconnected with her illness and that she did not have nothing else than to take what her destiny brought her. According to Mairs “
The poet successfully illustrates the magnitude with which this disease can change its victim’s perspective about things and situations once familiar to
One way that Gantos makes his writing amusing is through the use of schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is when a person takes pleasure from another's pain or misfortune. In the book, the main character, Jack suffers from tremendous nosebleeds, usually caused by stress and anxiety. For instance, after Jack thinks he sees Mrs.Volker peeling off her melted skin his nose starts “spewing like an elephant bathing” (Gantos 26). The use of schadenfreude in this story makes Jack’s suffering seem funny.
Wes is someone that many readers can easily relate to, for instance, he is being made fun of and getting bullied, which being a common problem several readers go through. His thoughts and feeling about his situation is much easier for the readers to sympathies on, as readers can relate to a character that feels real and is going through the same difficulties. As Wes is sharing his story from his point of view; it makes the reader become aware of his senses, thoughts and feelings, which effectively making the readers understand the situation he is put into. The use of extreme exaggeration to describe his pain gives the readers pity for him, which emphasizes the problem and creates a strong emotional reaction.
That is attributed to the author being a war veteran, where he joined the U.S. Air Force in 1979 by the age of 18 and served in the Gulf War, and he believes that there is nothing poetic nor romantic about addiction, abuse, and what happened to him. There is a fusion of text and dialogue, but he only includes what are necessary for the story to give it depth and make it flow. The truly astonishing aspect of this story is how Little Dave did not give up hope due to the years of accumulated physical and mental abuse and how he chose to survive. He learns that he has to stand up for himself and also rely on the kindness of strangers. He figures out
From this quote readers identify the change in mood of the story. As a reader, one is aware of the progress Brent is making from the Children’s hospital to the rehabilitation center. Brent believes that when he set himself on fire, that it was a big mistake and that this action has changed his life for the worse. Brent doesn’t have any suicidal thoughts anymore, and doesn’t self-harm anymore. However, when readers learn that Brent keeps a knife under his bed and keeps a paper under his bed that says “Death”, readers are surprised to learn that Brent is falling back into his bad habits.
“Hop in the car,” my dad said. His outstretched arms guiding my eyes to the open doors. Our 2009 Honda Odyssey was a beige colored behemoth. Comically overstuffed with passengers and cargo, the sporadic rumbling of the V6 engine was disconcerting as we hit the road. “Will we even reach Meredith at all,” I wonder.
Dark humor is something to be expected if you’re planning on reading a Sherman Alexie poem. “A key characteristic of Alexie’s writing is irony, and his dark humor is often buoyed by an exquisite sense of timing” (Poetry Foundation). Through this we are able to assume that his dark humor is perfectly time to lighten up such depressing moods. In “Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World” I believe we are able to get a bit of insight of insight off all the emotions from the following quote, “Those angels burden and unbalance us. Those fucking angels ride us piggyback” (985).
Theme The theme of the story, “The Raft,” is whenever you are in a tough situation, never give up. The main character, Robbie, went through many tough situations throughout the story. An example would be when Robbie was “Fighting with every kick, every ounce of reserve I had left, the light got brighter, closer ,and i reached up”(Bodeen page 41). This quote shows how Robbie didn’t give up and saved herself from drowning.
Dawn used this book as a way to become one with her inner demons, and to show to others like her that they are not alone in their feelings. The more mental illness is talked about, the more it creates a feeling of commonality and togetherness between all sufferers and those who wish to be a part of their lives. With Dawn’s work, it feels not exactly like she 's sharing secrets, though there are some, but that she is in the middle of the street making pain and pleasure known. She does not hold back and sugarcoat or glamorize her illness, but rather pick apart the being that it is and describe in detail every aspect of it. Depression is a monster, that “divvies, clinically scores [her], into that and this and this and this.
A Funny Story that Means Something Depression is looked at in many ways. It’s also wildly misunderstood mainly because most people don’t understand the effect it can have on a person. It’s Kind of a Funny Story, a coming of age novel for young adults written by Ned Vizzini, touches on different people and the effect mental illness has on them. The story follows Craig Gilner, a teen dealing with the pressure of growing up, trying to make his parents proud, and planning out his future all while struggling to keep himself from drowning in his deepening sadness and anxiety. Now this book may sound like a complete downer and what you would automatically associate when you think of depression, but it’s so much more than that.
