Who? What? When? Why? How? These are the basic questions to ask yourself when you are trying to interpret or analyze a writing of essay. I have read three essays recently that I will analyze for you. Doing this I will help not only you understand the essay, but help myself dig further into the authors meaning. Essay number one is called “Two Ways to Belong in America” written by Bharati Mukherjee. Essay number two is called “Buying a House” written by Sean Prentiss. Last but not least essay three is called “The Company Man” written by Ellen Goodman. Now come along with me in this journey to delve deeper into the authors’ main argument. In the end we’ll figure out that they are more alike than you might think. When you write an essay what type
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I’ll be honest, this audience was harder for me to figure out than the last one because of its generality in the beginning. But I think after reading the essay that the audience Goodman is intending for is people who work way too much and inform them about the reality of what can happen when they put work before family. Personally I think that when someone works so much that they spend minimal time with the family they are throwing their lives away for an extra couple of bucks. And spending time with your wife and kids is worth a whole lot more than a couple of bucks in my thinking. This setting influences the audience by explaining the saddening reality of what can become of you and your family when you invest way too much time into your office. Like Goodman describes in this sentence, “The boy once said, ‘my father and I just board here.’” (452) when you work too much you can rub your bad habits onto your offspring. That last quote came after a part in the essay in which Goodman tells about how the boy just does enough work to get money for food. And nothing else. In that sentence the boy implies that he spends so much time on other things that he only comes home to sleep there and then goes back out every day etc. That’s my guess at
I’ll be honest, this audience was harder for me to figure out than the last one because of its generality in the beginning. But I think after reading the essay that the audience Goodman is intending for is people who work way too much and inform them about the reality of what can happen when they put work before family. Personally I think that when someone works so much that they spend minimal time with the family they are throwing their lives away for an extra couple of bucks. And spending time with your wife and kids is worth a whole lot more than a couple of bucks in my thinking. This setting influences the audience by explaining the saddening reality of what can become of you and your family when you invest way too much time into your office. Like Goodman describes in this sentence, “The boy once said, ‘my father and I just board here.’” (452) when you work too much you can rub your bad habits onto your offspring. That last quote came after a part in the essay in which Goodman tells about how the boy just does enough work to get money for food. And nothing else. In that sentence the boy implies that he spends so much time on other things that he only comes home to sleep there and then goes back out every day etc. That’s my guess at