hanging
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Essay Analysis
Title: “A hanging”
Author: Georfe Torwall
Theme/Thesis: Value of human life
Type of essay: Narrative
Tone: Passive, weary, symphatic
Intended Audience: Adults.
Summary of essay.
The story is about the prisoner who is brought out of his cell for hanging. The writer realice the importance of life and think that the concept of hanging is wrong it is not a true solution for stopping crimes. When the prisoner is hanged everyone started chattering with each other
Rhetorical Strategy (include example from text)
Imagery “A a ellow tinfoll, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard.
Simplification “His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls , and his brain still remembered…
Alliteration: Bare brown block
How do the rhetorical device affect the author’s point/argument
The imagery helps to creat the situation on our mind about what is happening in jail.
The description of the wall, and everything what was around him reflects the whole theme of an essay and amplification give as detailed words and tell us about how dificult is to be in jail, this reflect the argument of the writer: Hanging is wrong.
What is the climax of the essay?
Climax of the essay is hanging of the prisoner, who is brought out of the prision… “The hangman climbed up and fixed the rope around the prisoners neck”
What is the narrator’s epiphany? Why is it significant?
Narrator realized that “what it mean to destroy wealthy , conscious man” who is as alive as we are and destroying someone life is not right.
It is significant because the writer realize the value of life
What is the purpose of the dog in this essay?
The purpose of the dog is, the dog treat everyone equally ; when he is around the prisoner he acting the same, he doe not differentiate between humans.
Humanize the prisoner.
What is significant about the last two sentences: “We all had a drink together, native European alike, quite amicably. The
Essay Analysis
Title: “A hanging”
Author: Georfe Torwall
Theme/Thesis: Value of human life
Type of essay: Narrative
Tone: Passive, weary, symphatic
Intended Audience: Adults.
Summary of essay.
The story is about the prisoner who is brought out of his cell for hanging. The writer realice the importance of life and think that the concept of hanging is wrong it is not a true solution for stopping crimes. When the prisoner is hanged everyone started chattering with each other
Rhetorical Strategy (include example from text)
Imagery “A a ellow tinfoll, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard.
Simplification “His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls , and his brain still remembered…
Alliteration: Bare brown block
How do the rhetorical device affect the author’s point/argument
The imagery helps to creat the situation on our mind about what is happening in jail.
The description of the wall, and everything what was around him reflects the whole theme of an essay and amplification give as detailed words and tell us about how dificult is to be in jail, this reflect the argument of the writer: Hanging is wrong.
What is the climax of the essay?
Climax of the essay is hanging of the prisoner, who is brought out of the prision… “The hangman climbed up and fixed the rope around the prisoners neck”
What is the narrator’s epiphany? Why is it significant?
Narrator realized that “what it mean to destroy wealthy , conscious man” who is as alive as we are and destroying someone life is not right.
It is significant because the writer realize the value of life
What is the purpose of the dog in this essay?
The purpose of the dog is, the dog treat everyone equally ; when he is around the prisoner he acting the same, he doe not differentiate between humans.
Humanize the prisoner.
What is significant about the last two sentences: “We all had a drink together, native European alike, quite amicably. The