The Word On College, By Jeannette March
March uses photos and narrative to establish an emotional connection with the audience on an issue that is important to her. According to ____The Word on College_____ emotion is the fastest way to connect with readers ( ) and by beginning her essay with an emotional first-person narrative March sets the scene and pulls readers in. For instance, when she opens with “my grandmother Mary died last November at ninety-three… Mom was exhausted… and I was crying relentlessly—but still, we went, compelled to do something tangible with our grief” (para. 1) the reader imagines two women experiencing the pain associated with the passing of family. This scene evokes empathy and brings forth the fears that many have of parental or family loss, allowing
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Writing from a first-person point of view invites readers into her world and she uses vivid language and imagery to evoke the senses. When she tells of her experience with her mother and the crowds in the days leading up to the election it paints a picture and the excitement in the air becomes an almost tangible thing (para. 5, 6, 9). Her diction also follows a more casual approach. March said, “I voted wearing my THIS PUSSY GRABS BACK T-shirt” (para. 10); while some may frown on her unabashed use of this language it was a phrase that many younger women proudly wore in the days leading up to the election. To reach the next generation of female voters, March must be able to relate to …show more content…
When she tells the audience her grandmother was born just three years after women won the right to vote and that she herself was born only because Roe v. Wade was not yet decided (para. 2), she reminds readers that women have only recently earned the right to equality and the ability to make choices regarding their own bodies. Several times she suggests that a female president is what all generations of women have dreamed of and it is the next step to “laying dynamite on centuries of white patriarchy” (para. 8). By bringing up feminist ideas such as these, she evokes emotion in the audience and makes it seem as if a woman is the only hope to continue making change. From there she builds on the feeling of American pride and patriotism to give the idea that it would be great not just for women but America in
Writing from a first-person point of view invites readers into her world and she uses vivid language and imagery to evoke the senses. When she tells of her experience with her mother and the crowds in the days leading up to the election it paints a picture and the excitement in the air becomes an almost tangible thing (para. 5, 6, 9). Her diction also follows a more casual approach. March said, “I voted wearing my THIS PUSSY GRABS BACK T-shirt” (para. 10); while some may frown on her unabashed use of this language it was a phrase that many younger women proudly wore in the days leading up to the election. To reach the next generation of female voters, March must be able to relate to …show more content…
When she tells the audience her grandmother was born just three years after women won the right to vote and that she herself was born only because Roe v. Wade was not yet decided (para. 2), she reminds readers that women have only recently earned the right to equality and the ability to make choices regarding their own bodies. Several times she suggests that a female president is what all generations of women have dreamed of and it is the next step to “laying dynamite on centuries of white patriarchy” (para. 8). By bringing up feminist ideas such as these, she evokes emotion in the audience and makes it seem as if a woman is the only hope to continue making change. From there she builds on the feeling of American pride and patriotism to give the idea that it would be great not just for women but America in