Critical Analysis of from Eat, Pray, Love
Rubby Caicedo
Prof. Alexandra Alessandri
ENC 1102
April 5, 2013
Critical Analysis of From Eat, Pray, Love This excerpt of From Eat, Pray, Love talks about the relationship between Gilbert and his sister Catherine whit a variety of descriptions. It has descriptions of places when we describe Rome and its most representative historical places. Also makes descriptions of ordinary things or activities when told, for example, the game she was playing with his friends in Rome(400). In this excerpt Gilbert tells a number of places and situations that she shared with his sister to show us as each has a different way of seeing the world and to live it. Since the beginning of the excerpt the author give us the spatial place about where she plan to run the story when Gilbert says his sister arrived in Rome a few days later (398). It is organized by mixing a bit of narrative and spatial. Gilbert tells her story in first person and could be a memoir of her life. the author revels the tone and style of the piece and also introduce a motif when says: “(her sister)…Helped nudge my attention away from lingering sadness over David and bring me back up to speed” (399). She makes a clear description of the characters that will frame the story and his relationship with them. One character is his sister Catherine and the author makes a clear description of her and her character when she says “My sister does everything fast, and energy twists up around her in miniature cyclones” (399). She also defined his relationship with her since childhood as mighty and domineering (399), but over the years and because of his divorce their relationship becomes more confident. With all these details, we can say that the piece has a well-defined and structured beginning. In the middle we have the plot that is the arrival of her sister to Rome and how differently she and her sister are developed and also how different is the way how their observe the environment in that city and in their
Prof. Alexandra Alessandri
ENC 1102
April 5, 2013
Critical Analysis of From Eat, Pray, Love This excerpt of From Eat, Pray, Love talks about the relationship between Gilbert and his sister Catherine whit a variety of descriptions. It has descriptions of places when we describe Rome and its most representative historical places. Also makes descriptions of ordinary things or activities when told, for example, the game she was playing with his friends in Rome(400). In this excerpt Gilbert tells a number of places and situations that she shared with his sister to show us as each has a different way of seeing the world and to live it. Since the beginning of the excerpt the author give us the spatial place about where she plan to run the story when Gilbert says his sister arrived in Rome a few days later (398). It is organized by mixing a bit of narrative and spatial. Gilbert tells her story in first person and could be a memoir of her life. the author revels the tone and style of the piece and also introduce a motif when says: “(her sister)…Helped nudge my attention away from lingering sadness over David and bring me back up to speed” (399). She makes a clear description of the characters that will frame the story and his relationship with them. One character is his sister Catherine and the author makes a clear description of her and her character when she says “My sister does everything fast, and energy twists up around her in miniature cyclones” (399). She also defined his relationship with her since childhood as mighty and domineering (399), but over the years and because of his divorce their relationship becomes more confident. With all these details, we can say that the piece has a well-defined and structured beginning. In the middle we have the plot that is the arrival of her sister to Rome and how differently she and her sister are developed and also how different is the way how their observe the environment in that city and in their
Cited: Bradway, Becky. Creating Nonfiction A Guide and Anthology. New York.Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2009