“Under the Influence” Rhetorical Analysis In “Under the Influence”‚ Scott Russell Sanders recreates his memories and feelings of loss‚ anger‚ and fear from his childhood inflicted by his alcoholic father. Sanders shares that growing up with a drunken parent can have a serious long-term effect on a child. He educes awareness and empathy for others by using similes‚ imaginary‚ and allusions to recreate battles against his father. Sanders writes to support other victims and to let them know they
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from the constant hassle of society. These people wish to roam incognito without having to be responsible for anyone but themselves. This divorce from human relationship can become dangerous for the person as well as the surrounding people. Scott Russell Sanders makes a good point that‚ “...if we make a career of being unaccountable‚ we have lost something essential to our humanity‚ and we may well become a burden or threat to those around us.” The nicest thing about getting away from it all is
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ESSAY #1: UNDER THE INFLUENCE DROWNING IN ALCOHOL DROWNING IN ALCOHOL Throughout the decades‚ alcoholism has become a common issue that has become the cause of the deterioration of many relationships. In Scott Russell Sanders essay‚ “Under the Influence”‚ it is demonstrated how his relationship with his father continuously weakens due to the effects of alcohol. In order to create a deeper understanding of the impacts that alcohol consumption has on families‚ Sanders
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“Under the Influence” “Under the Influence” this essay written by Scott Russell Sanders is written about his father and his father’s struggle with alcoholism. This essay shows how alcoholism affects Scott Sanders‚ his brothers‚ his sister‚ his mother and even his own children. It is a detailed explanation on the effects of alcohol on his father and how you can literally see how each beer‚ wine glass‚ shot‚ or swig can transforms him. In this writing Scott Sanders uses many sources to explain
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Analysis of “Under the Influence” by Scott Russell Sanders Scott Russell Sanders’ narrative essay “Under the Influence” is a piece about his experiences with his alcoholic father. To describe these experiences‚ Sanders uses animalistic diction‚ asyndeton‚ and explains how his father’s disease creates insecurities in himself. Sanders’ purpose is to describe life with an alcoholic in order to demonstrate the effects and devastation in correlation with the “disease”. Using negative connotation
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800 Under the Influence Scott Russell Sanders’s "Under the Influence" is about a son’s perspective of growing up with a father‚ who was controlled by alcohol. Sanders was only around the age of ten when his father changed into a drunk. Now‚ his son is around that age‚ so he wrote this story sparing the heartache and feeling responsible for other’s actions. Being a drunk has many effects on the people around you‚ and Sanders does a respectable job painting an image of those effects. Sanders starts
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Workaholics and alcoholics have few differences‚ but are similar in many ways. In Scott Russell Sander ’s essay‚ "Under the Influence"‚ he shows how children of alcoholic parents suffer from self-blame and how such blame can affect them for the rest of their life. Sanders illustrates the troubles he experienced as a young boy due to his fathers drinking problem. Scott blamed himself for his father ’s addiction to alcohol. Whenever Scott became older‚ he then dealt with an addiction to work‚ as his father had
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A feminist is a theory of the political‚ economic‚ and social equality of the sexes. Russell Scott Sanders‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds‚” discusses his personal observation of the conflict of gender equality that grew in his mind after seeing the harsh lives of his surrounding class of people. It deals with the problems that exist between sex and social class issues. He reveals that the men in this class had no choice over their own destiny in life. Their only ways of making money to barely survive
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Scott Russell Sanders in his essay "looking at Women" has his views shaped by the people he is surrounded by. This trend is apparent even in his early child hood. He continues this trend thru early adulthood. Well into adult hood this trend show it self through his actions‚ and through the quotes that he chooses. Sanders forms his opinions from the opinions of others in this essay‚ and demonstrates thoroughly. Two people‚ the first of which is a friend‚ affect Sanders first realization of sexuality
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In the autobiography "Under the Influence" in an Anthology of Norton Reader by Melissa A. Goldthwaite‚ the author Scott Russell Sanders tells his story about growing up with an alcoholic father. Sanders family go through many obstacles because of their father. His fathers drinking problems made Sanders shame and guilt because the main character felt like it was his fault that his father was drinking and wanted to save his father from his drinking habits. Sanders uses imagery and diction to tell the
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