Wollstonecraft is writing this letter to persuade a man in power to give women rights, education and a higher standing in society than what was currently afforded to them. The issue she identifies is that women in society at that point are given little to no education, which in turn lowers their capacity to be able to think for themselves and disables them from being more patriotic. Wollstonecraft rightfully believed that an education and higher knowledge would raise women up in society, and argued that denying them that privilege was hindering the nation and was contradictory to the recipient’s beliefs. From this letter, I identify Wollstonecraft’s discourse community to be a women’s rights community, and the recipient is outside the group.

Young is writing this letter to inform able-bodied people that the idea of putting disabled people up on a pedestal instead of simply treating them like the normal human beings that they are is damaging and needs to be corrected. Young sees this is a problem because in her life and through her own life experiences, she knows firsthand that most people’s view of disabled people is that they are inspirational regardless of how simple the tasks that they are doing are. She finds this as an issue because it puts disabled people in a category that’s not “normal human that can do things” and in a sense it alienates disabled people. From the speech, I identify Young’s discourse community to be a community of disabled people, and that the recipients are abled people outside of this community.