Rhetorical Analysis Of School's Out For Summer By Anna Quindlen

The essay “School’s Out for Summer” has a lot of information the common public might find interesting. It relates to families in the United States about their children and the hunger they might face during the summer time. Anna Quindlen, the author of this piece, states all of the statistics about hunger in children throughout the story. Anna wants to end all of the complications that come with not having food for the summer time. Since there is no school in the summer, there is no lunch provided to the children. Her argument that she is stating in the article is fairly clear. She makes good points on the problems of not being provided food during the summer. The examples she uses are very clear as well. Although her position in the argument is clearly stated, she could use more facts about it overall. It seems like Anna just skimmed the surface, there is many more statistics that she could have put in it to make the argument more aggressive to the other side. The …show more content…
She uses some alliterations at the beginning of some of her sentences, such as “In most cases”, “But while”, “In the beginning”, etc. But she does not add many of them, which overall weakens her arguments. The words she uses are quite simple too. They don't have much complexity to them. Although the does add a lot of evidence to support her idea, she has some flaws that will bring her argument down. The entire purpose of this essay is to persuade the reader into wanting to make a change about hunger with children in the summer time. Overall, this piece is good, it has a good argument from her use of evidence and context words. Anna wants to get the news out about the lack of food in children during the summer time. The awareness is shown through this essay. In conclusion, the essay is persuasive and she should get her point across to the viewer. She could have used more complex words but the ones that she did use were