Rhetorical Analysis Essay On Kidd

Lily starts off stuck living in an unloving, abusive household and decides to free herself from the negative atmosphere that she had been living in her whole life. Lily is perpetually abused by her father. He forces her to kneel on Martha White's, gets exasperated every time she speaks, and yells at her for no reason. Lily is not the only one noticing the terrible treatment, Rosaleen does too. Once after Lily had to kneel on the Martha White's Rosaleen said to her, “Look at you, child. Look what he’s done to you” (Kidd 25). Noticing the unloving treatment Lily gets, Rosaleen knew that their household was demoralizing place for Lily to be in, which is why she didn’t question when Lily when she later runs away. Lily one day realizes she needs to do something about her horrible life at home. While sitting in her room she hears a voice in her

She is expressed as dealing with “teenage problems” if I do say so myself a lot of issues that most teenagers have: identity, popularity, self-consciousness, and parental issues. The 14-year-old throughout her story feels a deep sense of longing for her mother as she did not know her, because she died when Lily was only 4 years old. In Chapter 1, Lily talks about how she misses her mother, and how she feels completely responsible for the fact that she doesn't have her. This quote, "This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away," is significant to the whole plot, because it helps us understand one of Lily's main concerns and desires. I myself have lost a parent at a very young age, and struggled to comprehend what happened, and how it would effect me through the course of my life. Lily Owens notices that she does not fit and is held back from that fact that her father does not care about Lily's life nor her needs. In Chapter 1, Lily indicates that she is “..worried so much about how I [she] looked and whether I [she] was doing things right, I [she] felt half the time I [she] was impersonating a girl instead of really being

DocViewer Page of 3 Zoom Pages In the beginning of the book Lily’s relationship with her parents was not really good , she really did not know her mother all she knew was the horrifying confusing accident that happened when she was only four years old. All Lily remembered about her mother was when her mother was fighting with T. Ray and she was packing all of her clothes , going in and out of the closest and seeing T.Ray yelling at her mom. Lily also remembered that she saw a gun on the floor and Lily grabbed it and shot her mother on accident.

Luckily for Lily, she comes upon the Boatwright sisters once she reaches Tiburon. Because of the fact Lily does not have anyone to share her love with, she is compelled to stay and live with the Boatwrights. At one point in the novel, Lily and August are having a conversation when August asks Lily “What else do you love Lily?”(Kidd 39). Lily then thinks to herself, “No one had ever asked me that before. What did I love? Right off the bat I wanted to say that I loved the picture of my mother…but I had to swallow that back”(39). Lily does not feel comfortable enough yet that she says, “ I love writing poems, just give me something to write, and I’ll love it” despite the fact that Lily really loves August (39). She loves August so much that she would rather stay in Tiburon with the Boatwrights than be with her own father T. Ray. The loss of Deborah results in Lily going to obtain love somewhere other than her own home. This is also why Lily takes Rosaleen with her. Rosaleen is a black nanny who used to work on T. Ray’s farm. She has been there for Lily in the past but she cannot always be there one hundred percent because of her race. Due to Deborah’s death, Lily does not have a mother figure, however, he journey to Tiburon with Rosaleen proves to be a success as she finds the Boatwrights and strengthens her relationship with her nanny, Rosaleen.

In this passage, Dustin Kidd opens the reading by admitting to the readers his addiction to social media. Kidd confronts that his morning routine consists of checking his notification on his phone. However, the narrator flips the subject from his social media obsession, to the problems of today’s society. He explains how society persuades people that they are “too skinny” or “too poor” and will never be “good enough.” Not only does he describe the cons of social media, but he also justifies how social media can be a powerful device. The internet can be used as a platform that enables people to stand up for themselves.

Kidd developed his argument by using his own experiment and using a few logical examples, in order to support his argument in logical way. During the speech, he divided and listed his argument into several topics, and using power point through the speech to support his idea. He divided his speech with telling us what is clarity and why it is important; what it is role of visual vernacular and how does it use in create a sense of mystery in the design; lastly he talked about some negative example to show the “unuseful mystery”. This show that the speech was on a logical way that the audience would to be confused on the topic he his talking about. Every topics have their own example that fit into each category. He also explain his thought clearly

We learn that she had accidentally killed her mother at the age of four, and has been made to feel guilty and unworthy of love. The story starts to develop when she helps her black babysitter, Rosaleen escape from prison. Lily loved Rosaleen like a mother. They use this opportunity to escape from Sylvan and her unhappy home. As Lily develops over the course of the story, we can see and learn about Lily’s many unique

Their acceptance bestows upon Lily the opportunity to confront her conflicted feelings regarding her lack of a mother figure. Eventually Lily fully opens up to the sisters about her struggles with motherhood, and they, in return, help her make peace with her past. In a moment of clarity Lily states to the Black Mary, “I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands,” expressing how now Lily is finally able to evaluate her present; she adopts the Black Mary and the Sisters as mother figures and through them finds the guidance she needs to begin to develop her identity (Kidd 164). Through her contemporary identity Lily is able to confront her abusive father T-Ray, and immerse herself with her adoptive lifestyle with the sisters life and their religion. Lily is able to embrace happiness through the authenticity she has found within herself through developing maternal relationships. Her journey implicates the immense value of mothers in child’s life. Her story expresses how mothers are artists, painting a vivid image of the world for their children and then teaching those children how to paint, so that they can develop their own sense of the world through their personal identity.

Question 1: Choose a character whom you think changed the most in this novel. Why did the character change? What caused this character to change? What motivated this character's decisions/actions?

The feeling of guilt over accidentally killing her own mother follows her throughout the novel. Over time, it forces her to become disenchanted with the world and its ways, leading to her resentment America’s beliefs about African Americans. Lily’s beliefs establish the tone and reflect the author’s own opinions of racism in the South during the 1960s.

Lily Owens has had multiple events in her life go wrong but those incidents have shaped her into the forgiving and understanding young women she became at the end of the book. Lily’s “father”, T. Ray, has treated her as a doormat since she was the cause of her mother’s death. It doesn't help that Lily looks like a replica of Deborah, her mother. On pages 24, 25 and the top of 26 it shows how T. Ray punished her because of his superstitions about what she was doing and who she was with. Even though no one was with her. In addition to that gruesome situation as mentioned before, Lily’s mom’s death. Deborah Fontanel Owens was shot accidentally by her four year old daughter. And on pages 290 to the end you can see that ever since that day T. Ray

Growing up lily was never really close or had a strong bond with her mother or father. There were always something behind there family, lily always wanted to be close to her parents but never really knew how.

Lily felt unwanted, like she didn’t belong. The only person that she felt connected to since her mom died was Rosaleen. Lily said herself about Rosaleen “I was the only one who knew that despite her sharp ways, her heart was more tender than a flower skin and she loved me beyond

Lily is a complex character and has many weaknesses along with strengths. She desperately struggles to be a part of society and can be quite manipulating at times. She uses her wits to try to achieve her goal of marrying a rich husband and have means to permanently not live a dingy life, but a problem exists –this life does not make her happy. She still pursues her goal anyway and makes many terrible mistakes including not marrying the man she loves and borrowing money. In the end, however, due to a terrible rumor Lily ends up being excluded from society and eventually dies.

As the story went on, my impressions of lily completely changed. I felt bad for her at first. Then I went to liking her kind of as the underdog in the story. Then I started believing that she was greedy. Then I went back to feeling bad. So my emotions toward her were on a roller coaster as the story progressed. So let’s start at the beginning. She was raised by a single father (T-Ray) because her mom was killed. T-Ray forced was just not a great father at all. The punishment when she disobeyed was kneeling on grits for a long time. They would mess up her knees and make it hard to walk. She was forced to sell T-Ray’s peaches because he owned a peach farm. Along with that, he would just mentally abuse lily and she had to deal with that for all of her childhood.