Rhetorical Analysis Of Aschers The Box Man - 862 Words

In the essay ‘The Box Man’ 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 â€Å"Ethos† and the stylistic device Anecdote. She uses many more which will be discussed later in this essay. She portrays the message â€Å"accepting loneliness† 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 the†¦show more content†¦Ascher implied she likes the Boxman’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 â€Å"He is not to be confused with the lonely ones, you’ll find them everywhere†(Ascher 9). Ascher explains how the Box man feels by giving some Figurative Language to explain his emotions. Ascher states â€Å"Who is to say the Boxman does not feel as Thoreau did in his doorway†(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 â€Å"Soup lady†, a lady who hasnt yet accepted loneliness. She orders soup every night and is so lonely that she â€Å"Drags it out as long as possible†(Ascher 9). The author then throws in some Imagery by saying â€Å"Fall from dry fingers and burst onto the soups shimmering surface†(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 â€Å" no memories linger there†(Ascher 9). As she explains her l ife, us the readers begin to feel bad for the soup lady. Ascher portrayed the rhetorical strategy â€Å"Pathos† while giving us this example. In the end of the essay Ascher tells us about â€Å"A lady across the way whose lights and Television stay on all night†(Ascher 10). This is symbolism, the television lady is a symbol of