Rhetorical Analysis Of Wild By Cheryl Strayed

We all have read a book at some point in our lifetime. Some books we loved and even reread many times, and others - well let’s just say did not even finish. Have you ever wonder why it is that a certain book caught your attention? Are you curious why you enjoyed the book so much? Have you ever thought why the author the wrote the book or why the book was organized and developed the way it was? In the book, Wild, the author Cheryl Strayed made very interesting rhetorical appeals that both hurt and benefit her effectiveness to relate with the reader. The author very carefully and cautiously chose what and where certain parts go or even what word is the best. Authors use rhetorical choices to effectively connect with their intended audience. In this essay, I will demonstrate Strayed’s intended audience, situation, claim, purpose, and her the rhetorical appeals she made in order to demonstrate what encourage her reader to finish this book in one sitting or throw this book away.
Strayed directed her book, Wild, to people who share mutual experiences like she did. She was a destroyed young
The appeal that was most obvious was her credentials. Cheryl Strayed has written many works of arts. “Her writings has appeared in The Best American Essay, The New York Times Magazine, The Rumpus, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Missouri Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun and elsewhere” (Strayed 317). She is a bestselling advice-essay collection book, a novelist, and an international bestselling book author of the book Wild. She wrote Wild as a memoir of her own experience using her own personal journals and memory. As she declared, “There are no composite characters or events in the book” (Strayed ix). This gives her a lot of credibility because she is saying she did not make any of this up. However, this just gives her the reliability to write this book, her character and ethics are