Blog Post Three: Analytical Essays

In Judy Brady’s “I Want a Wife” Brady discusses what exactly it means to be a wife. She discusses every aspect of the life of a wife/mother. She does so by using repetition of the phrase “I want a wife…” and personifying herself as a spouse of the wife. I believe her intended audience is anyone who underestimates the demandingness of being a wife. Specifically, I believe the targeted audience would be spouses of a wife due to the tone and nature of the writing.

In Christina Sommers’ “Men—It’s in Their Nature” she talks about how males are different from females. It started off when her son went to camping in the Negev Desert. Some counselors had done an experiment with the campers where they all went off on their own and wrote about what they felt. Not to Sommers’s surprise, the boys did not comply with the counselors and instead decided that building a fire with the materials provided would be better. Sommers then provides information that more studies have shown that there is a biological difference in the way that men and women behave and perceive certain things. Lastly, she talks about how men are not recognized as crucial pieces in our society. Women are glamorized for their poetry that expresses their feelings and yet men are undermined in their abilities that accentuates their masculinity such as construction and civil service.

I will be choosing the second essay (Sommers) for my analytical essay. The reason being is I believe it will be better to write about because it has more all-around evidence as opposed to Brady’s essay that was mostly just emotion behind it.

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