After reading anonymous’s work I found that they were able to collectively use many different literary techniques to encapture the readers and help describe the situation at hand. For example, “That classical sculpture of the beautiful woman on the proverbial pedestal shattered into glimmering dust.” As we can see in this quote, the author not only personifies their work but they use metaphors to emphasize this view of beauty. There are countless times where this occurs in the story. The author is also describing her writing while she writes. There was a point in the story where she goes into great depth on how writing is hard work and requires time and effort to master. What’s hard for me to understand is how each paragraph relates to the other? While I was reading I found it sort of difficult to follow what the author was saying as they jumped around from topic to topic without any true transition. In the beginning of the story she was expressing the difficulties women have being a wife or mother, and how it affects their careers. But as we progress further, she expresses the dangers and violence you may face as a woman. As a strong close she raises the issues in the world nowadays and makes it known that everybody has a voice and change is coming, sooner rather than later. What I enjoyed about this writing is that Anonymous isn’t afraid to tell the world her story and let everyone know the world some people live in. Her courage and exceedingly capable writing is what makes her words so powerful.
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I agree with Ariel and how she wasn’t afraid to share her story with the world. It’s not easy to let others know, this is happening to me but her courage as Ariel mentioned made it easy for her to share it. Yeah, the story line was kinda confusing to me as well, like from the beginning I was kinda confused but towards the middle and the end I was able to understand what was going on.
I agree that her talking about her struggles added to her story in a positive way but I also believe that when the writer jumped around, although I know it was to add her story it only really confused me as the reader. But other then that flaw she does cover a topic that is very important in todays culture which i think is great
I agree with Ariel because I too found that last line where the author introduces that everyone has a voice. the author expressing her struggles and challenges is going to make less women afraid to tell their story. Her words are indeed very powerful.