Rhetorical Analysis Of A Pen By The Phone By Debra Anne Davis

There are many ways to interpret the many pieces of rhetorical text that authors write to achieve their purpose of entertaining, persuading, or informing the reader. Yet another example of that, is this essay in which it explains the rhetorical strategies and the rhetorical devices used to support the author's idea. The piece in question is “A Pen By The Phone” by Debra Anne Davis in which the essay explores how she uses imagery and metaphors in support of her cause and effect and anecdotal strategies used to inform how she found peace with her own life because of her late dad.
To begin with, an overarching strategy the author uses to explain her life’s serenity is through the cause and effect relationship she attributes to her father’s example

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She narrates the story of how she grew from watching her dad read books as a boring hobby to an example of how it's taking comfort in small things in life that brings about true peace to the point where he wasn’t even bothered or fazed by mild chaos around him. After reading a book of his, she “ could not understand a single word of that publication; the pictures weren’t even all that interesting—yet it could absorb Dad’s attention for hours”. In the beginning of her anecdote that was her view on her dads peace bringing reading. But eventually as she came to notice truly how at peace he was with his hobby to the point outside stimulus didn't affect him she came to take notice of the importance of simply finding peace is simple things. After her fathers passing she eventually pointed out “I learned from watching him that one need not search for serenity, that peace comes unbidden if we prepare a small space and a little time to receive it”. Her anecdote comes to tell of her story of growing to understand that life doesn't need many wants to be at peace with it, it’s all about letting it come to them through a simple task or hobby such as reading, just as her dad