Rhetorical Analysis Of Talking Him In

The Emotions Our Actions Shadow: An Examination of Dan Yashinsky’s Story “Talking Him In”
Imagine you and your partner are expecting your first child: the nursery is all set up – the crib made with the coziest sheets and blankets you could find, your family waiting excitedly to find out the baby’s sex; your heart is racing because the closer you are to the hospital emergency entrance, the closer you are to meet your new ‘mini-me.’ Now – imagine you are right there, the months of waiting finally over, here the baby comes! And there the baby goes, gone; taken away by doctors and nurse as they tell you that your ‘mini-me’ is very sick, that they might not make it. Without being in this very situation it would prove difficult to imagine how a parent …show more content…
Enjoying the birth of your child for barely a few minutes before finding out the poor newborn is sick would be heart-wrenching for any parent. Despite feeling this way – as a parent in his situation – Yashinsky wouldn’t have been able to communicate how he felt during this time. As he relays the story back to us, Yashinsky makes his emotions easier to understand by describing his actions. As an audience, instead of merely reading the words “I felt distraught and inconsolable,” we read into Yashinsky throwing things around and are able to put ourselves into a similar state, allowing us to better understand the depth of his …show more content…
Yashinsky’s wrote this story with the intent that it would mean something to readers; and in the real, raw, heart-wrenching story he finished with, his audience would be able to understand and delve into the dread and helplessness he felt during his time at the NICU. Yashinsky let us read into his actions making it easier to understand the strength of his emotions as he prayed, threw things, and spoke out loud to his baby boy. He didn’t merely say how he felt, he found a way for us readers to actually understand the very degree to which he felt these things. Yashinsky went through something that no parent would ever want to experience, and afterwards he was able to write an amazing piece about it. Readers will never forget the rollercoaster of emotions they went through while reading this fathers story, it is one of those ones that sticks with you long after you’ve put the book down and slid it onto your