Other Frames In Muriel Rukeyser's Essay

She calls for a change in society to allow introverts to be more free to be themselves so they can strive and accomplish in the way extroverts do. She uses rhetorical devices such pathos, logos, and compare and contrast to support and persuade the audience of this bias and why it is harmful. The piece was inspiring, factual, and brought awareness to an issue that was not discussed much before this

To open up to her major points, the author starts with introducing the main topic in a dramatic way. She begins with not naming what exactly she is talking about as well as sizing it up to have a negative connotation such as

While Alexie states his voice by using metaphor, he emphasizes the meaning of reading repeatedly in his essay. He stresses how he strives to read variety of books, and he records that,” I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes… I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs” (18). Alexie lists out all the material he has read with the same sentence structure, yet he does not conclude all these things in one sentence. He exemplifies his passion to reading, for he tries to save his life. Due to his parallel repetition, Alexie impresses the audience by these

The way the essay is organized helps the reader understand the purpose of the essay much better. The author begins by telling a story, and the reader has no idea what the meaning is. The author continues telling stories, and then it all leads up to the author’s point of view on loneliness.

Throughout this essay, Alexie uses an extended analogy. Alexie’s analogies help the reader understand the purpose of a paragraph. He realized that “a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose.” He compares a paragraph with a fence which brings clarity to his understanding of a paragraph. From this understanding, he began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. For example, “Our reservation was a small paragraph within the United States. My family’s house was a paragraph, distinct from the other paragraphs of Labrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the west.” He uses this idea that each paragraph is an identity and inside those identities are smaller ones. Alexie even says that his family is like a seven-paragraph essay, each different but linked by genetics and common experiences. This allusion allows the audience to see Alexie’s point of view on the world.

In the beginning of the essay, Alexie talks about how knowledge is a power that opens a window to success by using an anecdote about his personal experience with knowledge. As Alexie talks about his childhood in the beginning, he says, “We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food...” (Alexie). When Alexie discusses the conditions his family lived in, he is setting this frame of pity that makes the reader understand that education wasn’t the first thing on their mind, but what they we’re going to eat next. Later on in the beginning, Alexie explains how his father surrounded him with books and how his love for books started. His love for books was sparked from the love his father had for books. Alexie states this when he says, “...My father loved books...I loved my father...I decided to love books as well...” (Alexie). Alexie also explains how he didn’t understand at first when he first picked up a book but soon learned that “The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose...this knowledge delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs...”(Alexie). This could be seen as a power because although he doesn’t understand, he’s learning how to understand what he’s reading and this could count as one of his first steps to success. As Alexie explains his personal experience with knowledge, he proves how he is an example of

As he grew up to become a writer, we see pain in the story he tells. “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (pg.18). Alexie wanted to be someone greater than what others expected him to be. People would put him down constantly, but he fought back just as much. He tried to save himself from the stereotypes of being just another dumb Indian. He had more determination to prove others wrong when it came too exceeding in reading to further excel in his daily life.

Alexie wants to show how he is affected by racism in his time and how even though there have been laws passed not to discriminate against people. Whenever police brutality is a main issue in today's era, then that means that racism has not been resolved. Alexie is proving the issue and proving that it has permanently scarred people to where they can’t fall asleep knowing they will be okay in the morning. Whereas the people that are causing this to people of colored decent, sleep as if nothing had happened to them and they are not even realizing how much hurt they are causing other people.

This gives the illusion that these two authors are from two different walks of life. Finally, their paths to becoming great writers were very different. Alexie started his education in hopes to be a pediatrician and it wasn’t till a poetry workshop that made him change his mind. Welty talks about a profound voice that became a passion and I find it hard to believe she ever wanted to do anything else (although I am not for

There are works that demand a deeper intellect, they bring issues from the depths so they can breathe and be known. To simply choose to not engage in this content is to push the powerless back down to drown in silence. Alexie brings to surface a people who has been on the receiving end of the trauma since 1492, the least we can do is accept and understand that this is happening.

She then goes into composing a woman who lives comfortably by herself, a woman who enjoys reading books, watching movies without any distractions and occasionally likes engaging in relations with the opposite sex. Yet some readers may see nothing wrong with this lifestyle, many will probably sense the loneliness it may bring, therefore, striking emotion into her piece. Most of all, both introductions captures readers’ attention perfectly through imagery. The only difference is that Gilbert uses logic to go with his picture while Crittenden establishes her credibly beforehand.

In the beginning of her essay she portrays herself, “I am not a scholar of English or literature…”. To place herself on the same level and give her readers some connection of who she is as a person gives the writing effective interest to of what her story could mean to the reader. Her casual tone, almost conversational, “So you'll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like” makes the writing a more comfortable and less formal piece. The reader is effectively drawn in and is a part of her story instead of outside of it, giving interest into what she is actively talking about

When I read this article, it was hard for me to not roll my eyes. Of course, not this is not at the fault of the author themselves. What never ceases to annoy me in the importance people put on online fame and followers. Being a star online might as well be bigger in today's day and age. I've been at both ends of the spectrum, as a person with above average popularity and below average. So, it's rather amusing to see people become obsessed with hitting that certain follower count.

The introduction is designed to make the goals of a writer clear to the reader by outlining the general topics discussed throughout the paper, and it provides a clear and concise thesis statement to wrap all the topics together to convey a point. The introduction is probably the most important part of a paper because it sets up the tone and argument strategy for the rest of the paper. My introduction in paper 1B was revised in order to provide a thesis that was less broad and that highlighted what the “multitude of unusual conflicts” (1) originated from in the story of “The Lifted Veil”. As suggested by the professor, I borrowed ideas voiced in my conclusion to showcase that these conflicts “stem from this mental power” of Latimer’s rather than some vague source. Also, I specified that the conflict characterizes Latimer’s “internal struggle” to resolve any confusion as to what is being characterized. It is highly important that the reader is not confused as to what the thesis is trying to convey because then the paper could be interpreted in multiple ways, all of which may not align with the author’s intended message.

1. The point of this essay was to reflect over the personalities and situations of the characters in a different point of view. To make the point clearer, I would not use excessive words and be straightforward.