Sweat Essay Directions: For this assignment you will be writing an in-class essay in which you state which

rhetorical strategies (DIDLS) Hurston uses the most/the best in order to establish her purpose/theme and reach her intended audience. This means: 1. You must decide what you consider to be the theme. Remember in order to judge theme you must consider characters, plot, and setting. 2. You must pick which 2 of the 5 rhetorical strategies she uses the best in order to establish the theme and reach her audience. Note: This is an ANALYSIS paper. You must analyze the strategies she uses, and how they help her establish the theme and reach her audience. Example thesis statement: Hurston uses harsh diction, vivid images, and frequent dashes in order help establish her theme and reach her audience. Example body paragraphs: Dont say: Hurston uses vivid imagery to establish her theme when she says, she thought of her knotty, muscled limbs, her harsh knuckly hands, and drew herself up into an unhappy little ball in the middle of the big feather bed (Hurston 395). She is talking about how Delia looks, and this shows that she is not as young as she used to be, and now she looks old and tired. This establishes theme because it shows that she isnt young anymore. This helps her audience because it lets them know what she looked like, and her audience would like to know that. Do say: Hurston uses imagery to establish her theme when she says, she thought of her knotty, muscled limbs, her harsh knuckly hands, and drew herself up into an unhappy little ball in the middle of the big feather bed (Hurston 395). She gives the audience the image of a woman that has been working hard her entire life. She chooses to give this image to explain the theme that hard word pays off in the end, and she does this by showing the audience what hard work looks like in terms of Delias body. The reader needs to see the result of the hard work on her body and how it has changed her. She repeats the hardness of her body and the knottiness of her hands throughout the story. This repetition of the image stands out to the reader and reiterates how hard of a worker she is in contrast to Sykes and Bertha. She chose this image to reach her intended audience because the women reading this may be able to relate to her body because they too have been worn down and used up as they have grown older and wiser, as opposed to their soft nave selves of years past.

I want to know WHY she showed me the particular image- I dont just want to know what the image is. You do not need to follow your Rhetorical Analysis notes in order to write this paper. You do not need a counterargument paragraph. Requirements: 1. Written in Word or Google Doc 2. At least 2 pages long. 3. 12 pt. TNR font 4. Use spell check 5. Clear thesis, and analysis