Thesis For Why Not Me

Using the excerpt from Why Not Me, Ms. Kaling does a fantastic job not only engaging with her audience but connecting with them too. She illustrates how easily the normal person may appear like celebrities like Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds who are deemed attractive in our society but the confidence in which they exude is something that stems from hard work. In this small excerpt from her book Ms. Kaling tells people about her growth as a person and how she was able to come about the confidence that she has now as an adult but along with telling the audience how confident she has become, she shows it in her words, the achievements she has made and the life lessons she has learned. “So that’s what I think whenever I read something like: “How’d

Hahaha.” So even though that hurts my feelings, I’m smart enough to realize, Oh, this poor dummy doesn’t understand the way Hollywood works. Then I think of ways that I would beat him to death with my SAG Award.” (Kaling #5) As a result, the audience can truly tell what type of person she is as well as her writing style. She is funny, admirable, determined, hard working but most importantly she’s real. She exhibits the essence of truth in her words. “We just assume boys will be confident, like how your parents assume you will brush your teeth every morning without checking in on you in the bathroom. With girls, that assumption flies out the window. Suddenly, your parents are standing in the bathroom with you, watching you brush your teeth with encouraging, worried expressions on their faces. Sweetheart, you can do it! We know it’s hard to brush your teeth! We love you! Which must make girls think, Yikes. Is brushing your teeth a really hard and scary thing to

Because I feel like I used to have it when I was younger but now I don’t.”’ (Kaling #1). Ms, Kaling was able to admit, she regret not giving an honest answer to the young teen, hoping for words of wisdom but instead received a generic answer from Ms. Kaling who at the time was tired from a long day. But, now that Ms. Kaling had time to reflect over her mistake, she is prepared to provide the girl an honest answer to her question. She gives detailed explanations of the things she did to gain the confidence that she has now and through this serious topic she is still able to make jokes, attempting to entertain her audience but also inform them of what it truly takes to become confident. What makes her words appealing is how relatable she is not only as a person but as a woman. She has been through the struggles of what it felt like to be a young girl trying to impress others in hopes of fitting in and that being said she might have seen herself in the young girl who asked her that question and in turn felt it to take it upon herself to tell the true secret to gaining confidence. Though Ms. Kaling does babble a lot in her essay and for some readers they would much rather read a more concise and simple essay and she does make unnecessary comments that weren’t really needed to propel the memoir forward. For example “ It made you wish you had just shushed