Summary Of Adventures Of Depression By Allie Brosh

The Blog “Adventures of Depression” written by the author Allie Brosh about her experience when she is depressed is humorous and funny. According to her, many people have genuine reasons to feel depressed. She became sad for no reason. She expresses her feelings by demonstrating it by her childish drawings, which consists of funny characters and discussions. The writer has taken many kinds of risks while writing this blog. She expresses her real life experience through a strange use of the idea of depression. She has made the concept depression debatable and funny as her ideas are giving rise to public disagreement , which is risky because some people misinterpret her blog and the writer by thinking that she has no sense what she is saying.

Do you even know what are you doing?” She also used unscrupulous words and unpopular tones in the blog to make it humorous and more notable, which is also risky as it creates a negative impression for the writer. Although she has taken many risks in the text, she tried to implicitly convey message to be themselves, talk to others and share our feelings to become free from depression. In the end, even though some readers will have a strongly negative reaction to the article, the risk is still a successful one because the author’s aim is to simply spread the idea, not to single-handedly change her opponent’s mind. The author uses a controversial choice of topic, unprofessional visual simulation, undermine credibility and a strong appeal to pathos to effectively communicate her idea. Overall, her risks were successful as many people applauded her writing in comments below and encouraged her to keep

She has made some drawings in her blog, which are simple, funny and unprofessional. The drawings are very colorful, which contradicts the idea of depression of seriousness. This makes her blog unique and very different from the other writers. She used these drawings to illustrate her personal experience with depression in an easier manner. For instance, she used dialogues like, “Get up, Stop being sad, what are you doing? and so on. This Drawings made the blog funny and creative and it is very dissimilar with other writers. Typically, the writers write about depression in a detail and monochrome format without any pictures. On the contradictory, Allie Brosh uses colorful drawings to demonstrate the idea of depression. This might have led the audience to think that she doesn’t understand the topic and is just trying to attract the audience. But, I think she is trying to deliver the purpose in a funnier and in unique way as colorful things helps to entice the readers and helps them to easily understand her purpose. Many people have given good comments at the article and this implies that her purpose was mostly understandable and consequently, her risk of undermine creditability was