Dog's Search For Meaning Analysis

How can emotions be seen through someone’s writings? Well this is called rhetoric, which means the art of persuasive writing, especially the use of figures of speech. So, in a story, one can easily break down the writer’s emotions using rhetoric. In this paper, I will break down the emotions of two authors’ papers and why they are writing these stories. The first paper “Success and Prosperity” is by Bouiyan Chen and the other, “Dog’s Search for Meaning,” is by Rachel Palmer. These stories are both sad, but one shows the emotion of anger heavily, and the other depicts the emotion of caring. In the short story, “Success and Prosperity,” we see characters that have deep emotional values. Chen shows us a Taiwanese farmers life through the eyes of his grandma. It uses two distinct characters: success and prosperity. …show more content…
Since she is going through a lot of struggles at this time, she shows a lot of anger towards her dog. This shows she is reaching people who have stressful lives. In the beginning of the story, we see her write about pulling herself out of bed and grabbing a walker, which is a meaning that she is constrained to only a few household activities. When someone reads this story, it brings anger to your emotions because of the sadness of her life. She shows her sadness when she writes about her looking at the list on the table saying groceries, vet, clean house, finish article, and exercise, yet she is constrained to only a few without hurting herself. When she wrote this, the reader can feel her anger and strong emotions because her dog is hyper and she continually repeats what her mom told her “you’ll get the dog that’s coming to you.” This is her way of regretting getting her dog. In this story, we see how her dog Sheldon represents anger and pain unlike the dogs in the first story, but yet they both represent a deeper meaning in a person’s