Before started working on essay 2, I already gained some experience of analyzing texts in high school. By that time, I analyzed fictions with some rhetorical devices, such as metaphor and personification. I mainly focused on how to appreciate the fiction, or what made the fiction worth appreciating, but I did not read many persuasive essays. When preparing for Essay 2, I went over my past essays about analyzing fictions. I wrote about how do the writer use the change of seasons to imply the characters’ emotions in Snow Country. The seasons are shown by the writer using a lot of imagery. While I was reading Snow Country, I was attracted by the scenes that the writer depicted, and when I read essays in Endangered Pleasures and “You are Really
