Bekah Jane Pogue

Bekah Jane Pogue, the author of “Choosing Real: An Invitation to Celebrate When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned,” expresses her attempt to rediscover her faith in God, in a recent opinion piece for Fox News, “How the death of my earthly father helped me find my Heavenly Father.” Both in her book and recent piece she talks about her love for God and how she arrived at a steady pace in her life, as a person and as a woman. In Pogue’s recent piece, she discusses the topic of faith with her readers and how it shaped her to be the person that she is today. To begin, Pogue reflects on her childhood about faith and the kinds of people who had faith pouring through their pores like, “nice people who do nice things” and missionaries. Those were the
The phrases that she uses and the words that she decided to use was superb for this piece. Pogue makes her readers think on what her underlying message is and what she means to say. For example, “And this is where I’m choosing REAL,” the detonation for real is “existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious.” This may be the Dictionary.com defetntion but Pogue's readers could see the word real and think something different. Some of her readers could think that the “real” way of life is the belief in God or it's the correct way to live life, especially since she choose to put real in all caps and some of the readers may feel offended because an atheist could be reading her piece. While her other readers could see this sentence as powerful and uplifting. They see it as a woman who was has been lost for many years, seeking for one thing and now since she has it, she's overjoyed and she does not want to lose it. The all caps real, just represents the faith that she has. If Pogue would have put an all lowercase real then, there would not have been depth to the sentence. The sentence would have lost the heart that it is holding. The sentence would be like any other sentence. Also, the tone in her piece is tough and rugged in the beginning because she used words like, “mistook,” “desperately,” and “grief.” But towards the end it was more lighthearted, “love,” “genuine,” “celebrates,” and “trusts.” In the beginning the words were more harsh because that is the part of of Pogue's life where she did not have faith but as time was passing by the more warm her words were becoming. And at the end when she has the faith her whole mood has changed, it went from failure to