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English 1010
Rhetorical Analysis Final


"Which side are you?"
In today's modern times being thin or fat is a bar used to judge people. We experience
this everyday. In the article "That Lean Hungry Look" by Suzanne Britt separates the traits and
thinking of thin and fat people. She dissects the characteristics of a thin and fat person to a
level of interpretation of a knowledgeable person of understanding. The author explains the good
and bad side of one and the other.
Suzanne Britt states that thin people have some menacing personalities and most of them
are frightening. She says that "thin people aren't fun. They don't know how to have a good time
in bits and pieces from the angle of a fat person. The author says that thin people just can't stay
still, they need to be always moving and don't like to sit around, feeling that there aren't ample
hours in the day. While fat people think the other way. The article says that thin persons are
logical, go straight to the matter, likes to solve complex problems, they oppress, they are
downers, they expound, prognose, probe, speedy little metabolism, dull, they persist and they
don't know how to goof off. While fat persons are opposite in everyway. She describes fat people
to be easy go lucky, take it slow kind of people, jolly, sociable and gluttonous.
Suzanne Britt has been a columnist for the Raleigh newspaper, and has written for other
newspapers and newsmagazines. Britt's wrote books, collection of essays, and an expansion of
her essay "That Lean and Hungry Look"; in which she states that "I've been watching them for
most of my adult life and I don't like what I see.". The author is not as subjective to the
characteristics of the thin person as to as the fat person, rather focusing on the bad or the good
side of the thin and fat people. She emphasized on the characteristics of the thin person as a
negative trait and counters that with a positive attribute of a fat person. Clearly, stating that fat
people are better in character but also stating that thin people have characteristics to be better
achievers.
The article opens doors for debates on each side. The author demonstrates very good
logos about the different characteristics of thin and fat people. From the start of the essay it
clearly describes her fear and dislike of thin people Citing a lot of differences between the two
types and her personal interpretation on the matter. But not necessarily mean that the same
experience is the same for everybody. Herr's was more personal and suggesting it started a long
time ago because of the considerable descriptions that she did over the two types. Britt wants the
audience to be aware of the different characteristics of thin and fat people that separate them
deeply from each other. Giving the audience a broader perspective of how it is to be a thin and
fat people.
As for kairos, the author states that all her adult life she has been watching these thin people and
does like what she sees.
The author showed splendid pathos about the material clearly showing that she was on
the side of fat people expounding the attributes of thin people and making it look like that its a
negative thing to which it could be a positive thing for others, like for example of thin people of
always looking of new problems to tackle and fat people tend to just relax. To other this may be
a positive sign like the thin person is a problem solver and a negative thought for the fat people
as to be the opposite. She showed emotion of dislike towards thin people and almost never said
anything bad about fat people, She even made the bad traits of fat people admirable not to be
seen as a negative trait.
In summary, the author voiced out good attributes of fat people from a rhetorical
analysis standpoint. . She has successfully conveyed to the audience that she does not like thin
people because of their characteristics and sees it as unfavorable The author showed strong
emotions towards the subject.