Box Man

1. Meaning Ascher states her main idea towards the overthrow of the essay. The quoin Man chooses solitude, and he also confirms the essential aloneness of human being. She also demonstres that we can go up solice within ourselves. Ascher leads up to and supports her idea with three examples the box man chooses solitude, and in contrast the cardinal women whose loneliness seems unchosen. She supports these choices with specific details from Aschers observations here is where you give details. 2. Purpose and audienceAscher seems to have written her essay for ii interlocking reasons to show and thus explain that solitude need not always be nonsocial and to argue gently for defeating loneliness by becoming ones own friend. In choosing the loge Man as her main example, she reveals perhaps a third purpose as well to commute readers that a homeless person can have dignity and may achieve a pulse of self satisfaction lacking in some people who do have homes. Ascher seems to ass ume that her readers, wish well her are people with homes, people to whom the Box man and his life might seem completely foreign.She comments on his slow shuffle, mysterious discrimination among boxes, his blistered legs and how miserable his life looks. Building from this assumption that her readers will find the Box Man strange, Ascher takes pains to show the dignity of the Box man his grand design for furniture, his resemblance to commuters, his grandmotherly leaf lings and his refusal for handouts. Ascher also assumes some well-known(prenominal)ity with literature and she chooses female figures to illustrate this all outcasts of society.Finally, Ascher seems to address people who are familiar with, if not actually residents of, New York cite she refers to a New York street address, a New York vacuum tube 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 resemblingy to understand and app reciate Aschers main point.3. Method and structure Aschers primary support for her idea consist of three examples specific instances of cave dweller people. It allows her to show incompatible responsesto solitude one person who seems to choose it and two people who dont. She develops the examples with description vividly depicting the Box Man and the two women. (cite here) Ascher uses division or analysis to take apart the elements of her three sources 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 organization fairly simple. She doesnt not begin with a courtly introduction or thesis statement but instead starts right off with her main examples, the inhalant for her idea. In the set-back seven paragraphs she narrates and describes the Box mans activities. Then she explains what appeals to her about circumstances like the Box mans and s he 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. manner of speakingAscher 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 motion picture 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 headache 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 emphasize Ascher point about the individuals tycoon to find comfort in solitude.In describing the two other solitary people who evidently have not found comfort in aloneness Ascher uses wor ds that emphasize the heaviness of time and the sterility of existence. The first woman drags her meals out and crumbles crackers between dry fingers. She lacks even the trinkets of attachment a gold regulate bracelet with picture of grandchildren. The wife with her hair in a gray page boy, the three fairish daughters emphasizes the probable absence of such scenes in the womans own life.Ascher occasionally uses half(prenominal) sentences or fragments to stress 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 equal importance. Although incomplete sentences can be unclear, these and others in Aschers essay are clear and she uses them deliberately and carefully.