Wild
The book Wild by Cheryl Strayed, focuses on Cheryl’s life journey. With her
life heading in a downwards spiral, she goes on a dangerous and adventurous
hiking trip. This book has many messages conveyed, one of them being life’s
difficulties. This book also shows that with time, one can heal
themselves.
This book is a great example of rhetoric because the author was successful in
communicating their message. One of the main messages was life’s difficulties.
Cheryl was having her life fall apart with her mother passing away and her
divorce with her husband. To her it seemed as though she had nowhere to turn
to. She decided to go on a hiking trip. She did this because she didn’t think
she had anything to lose so she might as well be adventurous and live life to
its fullest. The author used herself as the communicator and her life being the
message, communicating to the audience that life may be difficult, but there’s
always many different ways to look at life. This book shows that there are ways
that one can escape these difficulties and life and find a way to make them
simpler.
Cheryl was having trouble coping with what was going on in her life. She needed
something to pull herself back. Another example of rhetoric from this book is
the author’s successful message of pulling your life back together and finding
solutions to your problems. The author was a successful communicator in
communicating to the audience, being people going through midlife crises, that
you can find solutions to your issues with time. Some may argue that people
going through their midlife crises can’t just pick up their life and go on a
hiking trip to pull their life back together and find solutions. The author is
communicating more than that. You don’t have to go on a hiking trip to solve
your problems in life, but finding a way to take a break and look at the
outlook of your life can be a great way to solve these problems
Overall Cheryl Strayed’s book Wild is a successful piece of rhetoric. The book
was successful in communicating that life has many difficulties and finding a
finding a way to escape for a moment can help you.
I really like the message that you got out of the book!
ReplyDelete-Marley
I agree with the message that you got out of the book. The way you described how Cheryl figured out her problems was perfect. I felt that we as the audience could really take this message and use it in our own lives.
ReplyDelete-Annie
Rosa, I enjoyed reading your paper, but it could have incorperated the rhetoric triangle more than what was provided in this paper. One example is how it kept talking about the messae, but not so much the audience, and what was intended for them. Otherwise, it was a well-written paper. -Ben Grote
ReplyDeleteI agree with the message that you gave for this book. I think you had some really good details in it. Maybe just try to add a little more in the intro paragrpah and the conclusion paragraph, but overall it was really good!
ReplyDelete-Tiffany