A Rhetorical Analysis Of Stripped For Parts By Jennifer Kahn

Jennifer Kahn beautifully tells her personal experience story “Stripped for Parts” about organ transplants and the emotions that are tied to transplants. This story will have the reader on the edge of their seat and vividly seeing the surgery in front of them. It shows that one organ lives a long life and then some when its original owner has passed on. What was the purpose of her writing this essay, what made it process writing, and is her essay multimodal? The purpose of this essay is to show the readers of how organ transplants and all the impacts it all has on life. When she begins her essay she tells of how she is curious about the dead man’s health. What she is telling us is that the man, although brain dead, can still breathe, …show more content…
They use Pathos in paragraph eleven when Ms. Kahn explains how she wants to comfort the seemingly calm man and has no way to. Logic is the rhetoric form in which the author reaches the audience’s attention by using logic. This form is used in paragraph eight when the author uses Neil Theise for a logical response for the situation. Process writing is either a set of directions for how to do something or the description of how some things happen or is done. This essay is a form of process writing because it explains the process of an organ transplant. She begins her process about transplants in the very beginning of her story when she is explaining of the man’s appearance and health status. How they have to keep the body alive and healthy until the surgery that must be done within twenty-four hours since the patient went brain dead. Then the surgeons will begin to prepare for the surgery that will help to save another life while the author sits idly by. During the operation Jennifer Kahn is a bystander in the room awaiting the organs to be handed over. She will then take the heart away to a person in need. This paper may be a process writing, but it also may include description plus cause and effect. Description essays are describing …show more content…
This essay includes description an abundance of times throughout the whole paper. Overall she wonderfully described the transplant process in its entirety wonderfully. Whether it be her describing the man himself in his conditions at the very beginning over her document to her describing what she was doing with the organs. She in detail recorded the surgery and showed description through the whole experience. Cause and Effect essays are ones that are pretty self-explanatory, meaning they show effect from a certain cause. Although this form of writing isn’t used as much as description it is still placed in the paper. The author, Jennifer Kahn, uses cause and effect in her document to show that when the man went brain dead they decided to use his organs for another purpose. Therefore this paper does use both definition and cause and effect throughout it. Overall the author wrote this essay purposefully to show how a transplant process works. Jennifer Kahn efficiently used the rhetoric forms Ethos, Pathos, and Logos throughout her paper. During her paper she used the form of process writing and continually showed examples of it. Her paper also included definition and cause