Tuesday, October 12, 2010

How to Get Over the Guy You Can't Get Over - Analysis

Voice: helpful, supportive, sympathetic

  • The author of this article, Erin Zammett Ruddy, uses a helpful, supportive, sympathetic voice. This is shown clear through sentences such as "Either way, you deserve to move on- and yes, it is possible."Another example is "You will survive. Read... and stop weeping." She uses long then short sentences, pushing her point. She also uses quotes to make herself more creditable. For example, she uses a 29-year old women Kathleen who says "My friends helped me see that I fall for men I could never have a future with. They live across the country or they work 24/7 or they're way too young". When I compared the voice in this article to the one in "Editor's Note" is very similar. Cindi Leive, the cute, short, bubbly, editor-in-chief of Glamour writes all about her journey to help fight the BP oil spill in the gulf. She writes in a caring, sympathetic voice saying "Choosing this year's cause was, alas, an easy one; as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became the worst such disaster in United States history." She also emphasizes on how bad this incident was using words such as disaster, ravaged, and underprivileged. 
  • The author speaks to the writer rather casually as if she was talking to a friend. She uses sentences such as "You will survive." and "You can gloat later about how your floating-above-it-all attitude drove him crazy". Ruddy repeats a lot of words such as you, tempting, breakup, positive, and suffering. She probably does that to push the message that yes break-ups are hard but you need to stay positive and move on. Based on reading this article I can tell that the main audience for this magazine are older women who are established in life and are looking for more mature relationships. This article relates to the target audience by giving the women advice on how to move on from a bad break-up and how to eventually have a healthy relationship. The purpose of this article is basically a six-step plan on how to get the one guy under your skin out for good. Ruddy wants the readers to get over the guy they left behind and move on and be happy. 
  • Reading this article it shows me that the aspirations of Glamour readers are to be established in a great, healthy relationship and not be stuck weeping over their past love. Through the writing style it also shows that Glamour is all about giving advice and helping their readers in problems they may face. 

1 comment:

  1. Some strong examples here, Taylor. Good luck in the drafting of your essay.

    --NH

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