POST B; week #3!

VOCAB!:
Appendage(108)-n. an adjunct to something larger or more important
Entity(109)-n. something that has separate and distinct existence and objective or conceptual reality

APPEALS:
~~“Of course I didn’t know then that I had all the obvious signs of having an eating disorder: strange combinations of food, eating other people’s leftovers, skipping meals.”(107) Although this quote may not be relevant to everyone, it is definitely to me. As I know someone that has many of theses habits, it was easy to finally understand what she is going through. This quote is an emotional appeal because it shows how Marya now understands her signs of bulimia. Although once she realizes her disorder, she becomes more aggravated in that she doesn’t want to be bulimic, but anorexic and hence doesn’t want to stop her dangerous habits.
~~“Later in the year, there will be a few girls who defect: We’re all just getting way too obsessed, she’ll, nibbling her apple,”(106) Being a teenager I know how it feels to know and understand that everything is terribly wrong, but yet somehow you are never able to change it. This is definitely an emotional appeal because it helps to show how Marya along with her other dieting friends realize how bad their dieting is, but yet aren’t strong enough to stop it.
~~“Up to that point, the bulimia had had a life of its own. It was purely an emotional response to the world –under pressere, binge and purge; sad and lonely, binge and purge; feeling hungry, binge and purge- and actually had little to do, believe it or not, with a desire to lose weight.”(108) Marya had no control over her bulimia or eating disorder at all before this point in the novel where she started to take a terrible turn to anorexia. This is an emotional appeal because it shows how Marya was feeling and how she started to lose totally control of her addiction.

Quote:
“When a study was done on a group of young, healthy men whose caloric intake was cut to just under a thousand calories, they began … to purge, and –interestingly enough-they became incredibly worried about their weight, the shape of their bodies, and began to diet.”(122) This is a fairly important quote because it demonstrates the fact that an eating disorder can happen to anyone! It is not something that can be classified into a gender, race, or age group, but yet a universal addiction.