Rhetorical Analysis Of Looking For Alaska

In this sentence from John Green’s Looking for Alaska, the speaker's attitude toward the party is best described as indifferent. The speaker’s tone and diction implies that he lacks interest or concern in the unsuccessful party that was thrown for him. He mentions how “he could feel their pity”, but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This shows how although his parents pitied him for not having friends, he did not pity himself, but instead felt bad for his hopeful parents. The way the speaker describes his friends as “Imaginary” displays that he is an introvert who does not have any friends, and that the people his parents were expecting to show did not actually exist. His parents had high hopes and expectations