Nora Ephron Boston Photographs Analysis
“Boston Photographs” Précis
Nora Ephron, in her Esquire Magazine article “Boston Photographs” (1975), argues that newspapers and news sources should publish life events, including death saying that it is “irresponsible -- and more than that, inaccurate -- for newspapers to fail to show it (death), or to show it only when an astonishing set of photos come in over the Associated Press wire” (para. 9). Ephron supports her argument by incorporating anecdotes and anaphoras. Ephron’s purpose is to persuade the readers of Esquire that showing death in newspapers is important because “death happens to be one of life’s main events” (para. 9) and news should be about life. She adopts a candid tone [“Throughout the Vietnam war, editors were reluctant to print atrocity …show more content…
1) “The child had fallen on the escape and seemed about to seemed about to slide off the edge…” (para. 1). Link to argument: Ephron recreates the events of what happened that day through an intriguing story that keeps the reader's attention the whole time. Using the anecdote puts the reader at the scene as if they watched the events take place right before their own eyes, allowing the reader to see a ‘major life event,’ death. 2. Type of evidence: Anaphora Example: “...the morbid fantasy of falling, falling off a building, falling to one’s death.”
(para. 3). Link to argument: Ephron repeats the word “falling” ingraining the fact of how the people fell, how they fell off a building, and how they were falling to their death. Ephron puts the reader into the mindset of those who fell, falling to their death, and morbid feeling in the reader. By doing this, she affects the reader mentally and emotionally, forcing them to feel sympathy and grief for the victim. She showed how it is important to include death in news and newspapers without right out saying that
Nora Ephron, in her Esquire Magazine article “Boston Photographs” (1975), argues that newspapers and news sources should publish life events, including death saying that it is “irresponsible -- and more than that, inaccurate -- for newspapers to fail to show it (death), or to show it only when an astonishing set of photos come in over the Associated Press wire” (para. 9). Ephron supports her argument by incorporating anecdotes and anaphoras. Ephron’s purpose is to persuade the readers of Esquire that showing death in newspapers is important because “death happens to be one of life’s main events” (para. 9) and news should be about life. She adopts a candid tone [“Throughout the Vietnam war, editors were reluctant to print atrocity …show more content…
1) “The child had fallen on the escape and seemed about to seemed about to slide off the edge…” (para. 1). Link to argument: Ephron recreates the events of what happened that day through an intriguing story that keeps the reader's attention the whole time. Using the anecdote puts the reader at the scene as if they watched the events take place right before their own eyes, allowing the reader to see a ‘major life event,’ death. 2. Type of evidence: Anaphora Example: “...the morbid fantasy of falling, falling off a building, falling to one’s death.”
(para. 3). Link to argument: Ephron repeats the word “falling” ingraining the fact of how the people fell, how they fell off a building, and how they were falling to their death. Ephron puts the reader into the mindset of those who fell, falling to their death, and morbid feeling in the reader. By doing this, she affects the reader mentally and emotionally, forcing them to feel sympathy and grief for the victim. She showed how it is important to include death in news and newspapers without right out saying that