Nora Ephron

was set free through it. Even though he was in a tough financial situation, he had it better than others. “The Six Stages of E-Mail” Nora Ephron gave the reader insight on her experience using email. At first, Ephron was exhilarated to use the new, “revolutionary” form of communication and ignore having direct contact with others. Ephron was also thrilled to discover that email could be used as a mask; the sender never has to reveal his or her true feelings. However, things soon took a turn for the worse. As Ephron became obsessed with email and felt obligated to respond to every one, she began to experience health issues and was flooded with spam. At the end of the essay, she simply put the words “Call Me,” symbolizing that she had given up email altogether. Overall, the primary purpose of this essay was to spread awareness that email can be both a blessing and a curse. Ephron achieved this by visualizing her experience using six stages: Infatuation, Clarification, Confusion, Disenchantment, Accommodation, and Death. I particularly want to analyze the last stage, “Death,” in more detail. At first, I thought this was a sign that the author had perhaps committed suicide upon being overwhelmed by email. However, I soon realized that this was not to be taken literally, and symbolized the death of her love for this new form of communication. Ephron is trying to indicate that in today’s modern world, technology is tearing us apart from each other. Although text, email, and…

Adverse truths are often difficult to accept. Humans’ inquisitive minds are always striving to uncover truth. However, people have the tendency to believe only the positive truths. Truth is no longer universally accepted because people are extremely selective with the information they deem to be true. The unaccepting attitudes towards negative truths can be observed in “The Boston Photographs” by Nora Ephron and “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato. Truths which bear negative news are often…

The Reaper in Development When Reading the Boston Photographs by Nora Ephron it cause many to question the theories of right versus wrong on what the media should and should not do when it reports what it considers to be news worthy. Should a picture in the act of death with the shadow of The Reaper clearly stained into the films emotion be shown to the masses or should the privacy of the human mind and dis-involved ignorance of humanity take hold over what is acceptable when viewing the…

the Publication of a Picture Pictures cannot be reenacted; therefore, this is why photographs are cherished. This statement rings valid, and many people, including Nora Ephron, can agree with it. Moreover, Ephron wrote a final essay called “The Boston Photographs”, and she mentions an occurrence where a woman was killed and the photographs of her falling were published in news articles. People believe that these pictures were private. However, Ephron believes that obscenities should not be…

of the photograph in itself, or to show the devastating disasters of life? Nora Ephron, in her essay, “The Boston Photograph,” is able to distinguish between the two. She believes photos should disturb the reader, causing evocative thoughts. What other purpose do photographs have? Yes, photographs can be exquisite reminiscences of the past, but photographs also can serve the purpose of conveying greater meanings. Her main views on the purpose of photographs are they should never sugarcoat the…

Nora Ephron, former reporter for the New York Post and columnist and senior editor for the Esquire, thinks it would be a good thing if more photographs of death and dying were published by newspapers (176) and gives many reasons why but I’m going to have to disagree with her. The Boston Photographs was an article that talks about images of a woman who died in a tragic accident in 1975. What really sparked up the conversation was that her dead body was published in the article in the Boston…

Nora Ephron’s novel, “Heartburn” is a memoir like story about one woman’s’ experience in processing lost love, life, and food. Nora uses flashbacks throughout her novel to describe her lost loves and to give understanding of her feelings of and experience with betrayal due to her husband Mark’s affair, Charlie, her ex-husband’s affair with her best friend and her good friend Arthur Seigal’s affairs. She says often that she wants her readers to understand her relationships and perspectives, why…

“A Few Words About Breasts” by Nora Ephron The essay that was my personal favourite was “A Few Words About Breasts” which was published in the magazine Esquire by Nora Ephron in 1975. This essay was about an androgynous woman named Nora who writes a series of anecdotes about her struggles of being flat chested throughout her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. During her childhood and adolescence, women with bigger busts, and more “girly” qualities were considered to be “real women”.…

The Beauty of a Photo In Nora Ephron’s “The Boston Photographs” story and Geoff Dyer’s “The Mystery at the Heart of Great Photographs” article, both make multiple claims about photography and how pictures need to be exposed. Seeing photography in the way it was captured from the photography’s eyes is important and shouldn’t be censored. Overall, through both Nora Ephron’s story and Geoff Dyer’s article, the ultimate claim they’re overarching throughout is, whether the photo taken is staged…

I've only seen a few of Nora Ephron's films although I will admit that I'm a fan of her writing more than I am of her movies. However as a person who loves rom coms, I can definitely appreciate what she has done for the romantic comedy genre. Thus I was why was looking forward to picking up Erin Carlson's I'll Have What She's Having: Nora Ephron and the Three Movies that Changed Romantic Comedy. Written from a omniscient yet also objective and observer like perspective, I'll Have What She's…