John Trimble Oddly Normal

John Schwartz’s book, “Oddly Normal” illustrates how his third child showed signs that he was gay at a very young age. The content of the book that made it readable was not because his son was gay or the criticism that him and his wife received as parents, but the style and tactic that he wrote with made it readable for us. In Schwartz’s book, he uses many of the characteristics that John Trimble the author of the “Writing with Style” shows that are what makes a book readable. John Schwartz utilizes word pictures, honest, personal experience, communicating, and verbs throughout his book which made it readable.

John Schwartz uses honesty and trust in pages 9-11 of his book, which made it readable for us. He states, “Pleading for light-up shoes with pink accents and rhinestone. We hesitate; would people give us trouble about putting our toddler in pink light-up shoes?” (Schwartz, 9). In this passage, he is honest because he cares about what people will say and think of him as a parent who lets his male child dress up in a feminine way. This tactic that Schwartz used made it readable for us the audience because it shows that he has emotions like everybody else, which according to John Trimble illustrates that …show more content…
When a writer does not quote but paraphrase, words tangle with each other; it gives it a different meaning of what it supposed to portray. Also, the quotations are seen as a dialogue between two parties in order to understand or support the argument being presented. Schwartz quoted, “If more parents would buy boys pink shoes when they asked for them. The world would be a better place.” (Schwartz, 9). Schwartz quotes the retailer who was selling them the shoe for their son, and he quotes the man which made the sentence