Rhetorical Analysis Of Vegetarian By Laura Fraser

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The author of this passage is Laura Fraser, a "vegetarian" of 15 years. The occasion of her writing is to provide a satirical explanation for her decision to go vegetarian. The audience of this passage is the general public, any individual can read this because of its satirical spin on a plain topic. The purpose of her writing is to provide a comical piece against vegetarianism. The tone of her piece is shaped by the lighthearted humor that she uses to portray her argument against being a vegetarian. Fraser discusses health, animal rights, and the environment as reasons to be vegetarian, however, she later takes apart each argument in a way that is comical and pleasant for everyone, who isn’t a vegetarian, to enjoy.

Her first reason regarding why she became a vegetarian was health. She then rebuts her argument by stating, that to make up for the lack of meat, she ate cheese. Which in large amounts, is much more …show more content…

If she was not speaking from personal experience and was only speaking generally, then it would be more difficult for her to make this piece so satirical. Her personal experience helps make this such an entertaining piece. Also, this piece is based on her personal reasons for becoming a vegetarian, and also her loose interpretation of being a vegetarian. Not all vegetarians have the same reasoning behind their diet, so this only works with her personal experience.
Her tone in this essay was satirical. This made her argument more appealing to a wider audience due to the presence of comedy. She uses her humor to convey an important message to the reader.
In paragraph two the point that Fraser is trying to make is, she's very lenient in being a vegetarian. She calls herself a vegetarian, yet she ate fish, dairy and pancetta; which are all animal products. This shows that her reasoning behind being a vegetarian is very loosely interpreted due to her consumption of animal

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