The author takes a fact stating yet intrigued by Adam Rippon and Michael Boitano’s stories.The author is attached but it the same time distant as they remain objective in the presentation of the statements made by Rippon and Boitano and the facts of the women who dropped out of the Olympics due to their eating disorders. The author's tone is candid whilst clinical but incisive about the roots of their eating disorders and diets.The author implored rhetorical devices like ethos and pathos. Karen brought in pathos by using the emotional connection of when Boitano asks Rippon how he was doing and Rippon doesn't respond with how his jumps are going or other figure skating jargon but talks about his weight. It builds a connection with anyone who has struggled with body image and especially with those who have overcome or are recovering from eating disorders. Ethos is displayed through the quote “According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 20 million American women and 10 million men will at some point struggle with a clinically significant eating disorder.” adds credibility to the “quiet starvation” to the credibility that men aren’t as open to their struggles but they still do struggle to add to the significance of the title. The writing is supposed to impact the reader to those struggling it's like hey someone else whos big and famous went through this too. To anyone who has ever dealt with it small hand, it is a like me moment. The goal is to inform the reader that struggles happen to everyone here's an example nobody is perfect.The goal was of the article was to inform people that just because you don’t see it. Things still happen and people still struggle. The argument is solid as the author weaves the pieces of evidence about the diets of male figure skaters, the statistics from the national eating disorder association, and the personal stories from Adam Rippon, Kelly Rippon, Michael Boitano, and Johnny Weir.
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AuthorKennedy Fitch AP English and Language Composition Student. Archives
April 2018
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