POST A..week #2

VOCAB:
Caustic(66)- capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Paradox(64)- a tenet contrary to received opinion

APPEALS:
1.“She snorts cocaine in her flowered room to keep from giving in to sleep, a weakness, and she, already too weak, refuses to give in.”(86). This appeal clearly shows emotional appeal because it shows the struggle that Marya had with drugs, its connection to bulimia and self control. The readers then want to know how the heck the author got to this disaster of a place in her life.
2.”I was the problem. But we never wondered why I was the problem”(66) This appeal shows emotional appeal again because Marya is telling the readers how her parents know she has a problem, but cant help her fix it.
3.”I was bingeing, alone, whenever I could, with whatever money I had”(82) This appeal is obviously emotional again because Marya is telling the readers how desperate she was and to how much of an extreme she had reached.

QUOTE:
“My life split in half, finally and definitively, right here, seventh grade…I began to run toward the vanishing point”(64) This an extremely important quote because Marya is pin-pointing the exact point in her life of permanent anorexia, that she jumped over to somewhat controlled to uncontrollable. After this point Marya gave up on bulimia and commenced her journey with anorexia. It is amazing how young she was when she started to run toward her death.

THEME:
So far the theme has remained the same; Marya’s struggle and failure to de-attach her life from anorexia.