Box Man

1. Meaning Ascher states her chief(prenominal) idea towards the end of the essay. The niche military man chooses solitude, and he also confirms the indispensable aloneness of hu hu part being. She also demonstres that we can find solice within ourselves. Ascher leads up to and supports her idea with three examples the box man chooses lone pull backss, and in contrast the deuce women whose loneliness seems unchosen. She supports these choices with specific details from Aschers observations here is where you give details. 2. purport and audienceAscher seems to get down written her essay for two interlocking reasons to present and frankincense explain that solitude need not always be only(a) and to argue gently for defeating loneliness by becoming ones own friend. In choosing the street corner Man as her main example, she reveals possibly a third purpose as well to convince readers that a homeless person can have dignity and may fall upon a measure of self satisfaction l acking in or so the great unwashed who do have homes. Ascher seems to assume that her readers, like her argon mess with homes, people to whom the Box man and his life might seem all in all foreign.She comments on his slow shuffle, mysterious discrimination among boxes, his blistered legs and how miserable his life looks. construct from this assumption that her readers will find the Box Man strange, Ascher takes pains to submit the dignity of the Box man his grand design for furniture, his resemblance to commuters, his grandm early(a)ly flick lings and his refusal for handouts. Ascher also assumes some familiarity with lit and she chooses female figures to illustrate this all outcasts of society.Finally, Ascher seems to compensate people who are familiar with, if not actually residents of, New York call she refers to a New York street address, a New York subway line (IRT), and the Daily News- a NY paper. However readers that do not know the literature Archer cites, who do not know NYC are still likey to infer and appreciate Aschers main point.3. Method and Structure Aschers autochthonic support for her idea consist of three examples specific instances of solitary people. It allows her to show contrasting responsesto solitude one person who seems to choose it and two people who dont. She develops the examples with description vividly portraying the Box Man and the two women. (cite here) Ascher uses division or analysis to take apart the elements of her three credits lives, and she relies on comparison and contrast to show the differences between the Box Man the other two (cite examples )While using many methods to develop her idea, Ascher keeps her constitution fairly simple. She doesnt not begin with a formal instauration or thesis statement but instead starts right clear up with her main examples, the inspiration for her idea. In the first seven paragraphs she narrates and describes the Box mans activities. Then she explains what appeals to her about circumstances like the Box mans and she applies those thought to what she imagines are his thought. Ascher contrasts the Box man and two other solitary people, whose lives she sees as different form his. Finally she returns to the Box Man and zeroes in on her main ides.4. LanguageAscher uses specific language to portray her three examples she shows them to us and lets us know what she thinks about them. For instance, the language changes for the impression of the Box Man to the next to the last paragraph on solitude. The Box Man comes to life in warms terms (show examples) Ascher watches him with silent fervor he seems dogged by luck he sits with slow care he open the newspaper with ease In contrast, isolation comes across as a desperate state bland stares, strangers exile .The contrast in language helps to show Ascher point about the individuals ability to find teething ring in solitude.In describing the two other solitary people who evidently have not found comfort in aloneness Ascher uses words that emphasize the heaviness of time and the sterility of existence. The first woman drags her meals out and crumbles wild between dry fingers. She lacks even the trinkets of attachment a gold glamour bracelet with picture of grandchildren. The wife with her hair in a time-honored page boy, the three blond daughters emphasizes the probable absence of such scenes in the womans own life.Ascher occasionally uses incomplete sentences or fragments to filter the accumulation of details or the quickness of her impressions. Paragraph 10and 18 (cite examples from them) both of these incomplete sentences gain emphases for Parallelism, the use of similar grammatical for ideas of comprise importance. Although incomplete sentences can be unclear, these and others in Aschers essay are clear and she uses them deliberately and carefully.