Magic For Beginners Rhetorical Analysis

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Three Threads and a Thesis Worksheet Magic for Beginners: The Faery Handbag 1. The title itself, The Faery Handbag, introduces the reader to the magical world of fairies. Handbags, as well as hats, are the tools usually used by the illusionists who access through them into a hidden world--no by chance the collection is titled "magic for Beginners." At the beginning of the story seems a fairy tale for children, but after a few lines, one realizes that the story touches sensitive topics such as nostalgia for lost and lost innocence, death, and life beyond life. 2. The author transforms a secondhand clothes shop in a place that transcends the reality. "The Garment District is where they go when they die. You can tell that they’re dead, because of the way that they smell. When you buy them, and wash them, and start wearing them again, and they start to smell like you, that’s when they reincarnate.” …show more content…

The reference to the dead clothes that reincarnate when they begin to have your smell suggests that those who die live within us somehow become part of us and vice versa. “But the point is, if you’re looking for a particular thing, you just have to keep looking for it. You have to look hard." I believe that this passage is crucial to understand the long-life journey to search for the meaning of life and death that the author explores masterfully using the fictional style. Also, there is a clear allusion to the fact that research requires a keen eye and

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