After reading a majority of essays from NPR's This I Believe series, I found a large number of essays that would be superior for students to read and analyze. One essay stuck out of all the other essays that spoke about a cat, that wandered into a prison yard at a local correctional facility. "Caring Makes us Human" by Troy Chapman would be an excellent essay for English 1301 students to read. Chapman provides very complex sentences, proper nouns, eulogy, and uses statements to make a point.
He writes in praise of a scruffy orange cat that wandered into a prison yard and how the cat affects the other prisoners around him and himself. Instead of telling the readers he approached a orange scruffy cat and pet it, Chapman talks about how amazing it was to feel the cat under his hand. He explained that it felt like he was "enriching the life of another creature with something as simple as my care." His essay is filled with specific details of what's going in the prison yard with the cat and how everyone is reacting towards it.
Chapman tells the readers when the "scruffy …show more content…
When Chapman speaks about him petting the cat, the reader notices how astonished he is to feel another creature under his care. The author provides imagery throughout the essay, by mentioning how the other prisoners responded towards the cat. The reader notices the prisoners haven't seen an animal in years, or decades by how they treated the cat. The orange scruffy cat was being treated like royalty with "bowls of milk and water appeared, along with bread." Students will notice how Chapman uses imagery to give life to his words, throughout his whole essay. English 1301 students will see the importance of imagery by reading "Caring Makes us Humans. Imagery will help the students write their essays because it helps the reader grasp the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings of the
He writes in praise of a scruffy orange cat that wandered into a prison yard and how the cat affects the other prisoners around him and himself. Instead of telling the readers he approached a orange scruffy cat and pet it, Chapman talks about how amazing it was to feel the cat under his hand. He explained that it felt like he was "enriching the life of another creature with something as simple as my care." His essay is filled with specific details of what's going in the prison yard with the cat and how everyone is reacting towards it.
Chapman tells the readers when the "scruffy …show more content…
When Chapman speaks about him petting the cat, the reader notices how astonished he is to feel another creature under his care. The author provides imagery throughout the essay, by mentioning how the other prisoners responded towards the cat. The reader notices the prisoners haven't seen an animal in years, or decades by how they treated the cat. The orange scruffy cat was being treated like royalty with "bowls of milk and water appeared, along with bread." Students will notice how Chapman uses imagery to give life to his words, throughout his whole essay. English 1301 students will see the importance of imagery by reading "Caring Makes us Humans. Imagery will help the students write their essays because it helps the reader grasp the beliefs, thoughts, and feelings of the