Analysis: Revival Of Respect From Rejection

Revival of Respect from Rejection
In the passage, the author dishearteningly reflects on a past unfortunate event in order to eventually come to a mature conclusion of a valuable realization. In order to accompany the author’s elaboration of a significant epiphany, she shifts from a personal narrative to an interpretation of a learned lesson. Throughout the passage, the author incorporates multiple stylistic/literary devices to effectively convey her purpose. First and foremost, the author begins with an introduction that establishes the dejected tone of her personal experience of failure and rejection. The reader is first introduced to the image of the narrator’s writing in “large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.” Immediately, the reader is introduced to a pessimistic idea involving a hyperbolic aspect, as the author generalizes the
Rather than focusing on an emotional account of an experience, the author providers her analytical interpretation of self-respect. She comes to the conclusion that “self respect has nothing to do with the approval of others” and “has nothing to do with reputation.” By using objective language, absent of any emotional expression of language, she is, in fact, able to transform her voice of that of an inexperienced, narrow-minded girl to that of a learned woman. The author is able to shift her attitude of utter hopelessness to a tone of hopefulness and conviction in self-respect. It is reasonable to conclude the author was able to use this experience to come to a significant realization that would characterize her as a mature and experienced being. Thus, the latter portion of the author’s writing is not composed of emotional imagery, but rather of aphorisms and meaningful reflections that resemble what a mother would say to her