Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Rhetorical Analysis Of Aschers The Box Man - 862 Words
In the essay ââ¬ËThe Box Manââ¬â¢ Ascher invokes many stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies to portray her message that you should accept loneliness. The devices she uses include the rhetorical strategy ââ¬Å"Ethosâ⬠and the stylistic device Anecdote. She uses many more which will be discussed later in this essay. She portrays the message ââ¬Å"accepting lonelinessâ⬠throughout the whole piece and even provides real life examples to support her message. These Examples include The Box man, the Soup lady, and the Television lady. All of these examples are lonely Individuals however, they go about it at different ways. The Box man chooses to accept loneliness and the other two ladies dont accept it and therefore live miserably. Ascher starts off theâ⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦Ascher implied she likes the Boxmanââ¬â¢s way of living by saying what she did about the Boxcar Children. He is alone but he doesnt care, hes accepted it and lives the way he wants to. Ascher states ââ¬Å"He is not to be confused with the lonely ones, youââ¬â¢ll find them everywhereâ⬠(Ascher 9). Ascher explains how the Box man feels by giving some Figurative Language to explain his emotions. Ascher states ââ¬Å"Who is to say the Boxman does not feel as Thoreau did in his doorwayâ⬠(Ascher 9). In this sentence she also used an Allusion by referring to Thoreau, a famous person in literature. Later in the story Ascher starts talking about the ââ¬Å"Soup ladyâ⬠, a lady who hasnt yet accepted loneliness. She orders soup every night and is so lonely that she ââ¬Å"Drags it out as long as possibleâ⬠(Ascher 9). The author then throws in some Imagery by saying ââ¬Å"Fall from dry fingers and burst onto the soups shimmering surfaceâ⬠(Ascher 9). We get a visual of the lonely old soup lady. Ascher explains to us she is miserable and has no family whatsoever. Ascher states ââ¬Å" no memories linger thereâ⬠(Ascher 9). As she explains her l ife, us the readers begin to feel bad for the soup lady. Ascher portrayed the rhetorical strategy ââ¬Å"Pathosâ⬠while giving us this example. In the end of the essay Ascher tells us about ââ¬Å"A lady across the way whose lights and Television stay on all nightâ⬠(Ascher 10). This is symbolism, the television lady is a symbol of
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