Little Girls In Pretty Boxes And The Scarlet Letter Analysis

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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes and The Scarlet Letter. Both authors persuade the reader to feel pain of the stories subject. In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes the author used pathos and interviewing to share the stories of these overly dedicated youth. Joan Ryan wrote to show how these young, talented, sophisticated women can hide the harsh reality of the sport. In her biography she listed the physical problems that these young girls go through. They have eating disorders, stunted growth, weakened bones, depression, low self esteem, debilitating and fatal injuries, and many sacrifice dropping out of school. Whereas the Scarlet Letter is a fictional drama that uses persuasion and storytelling to involve the reader. Nathaniel Hawthorne discusses …show more content…

In the Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne talks about the rose bush by the entrance to the prison throughout the novel. The rose bush was used to symbolize hope for the prisoners. There is inherent good in all people regardless of their circumstances Joan Ryan used personal experiences and interviews to highlight the hope for change the girls’ desired in Little Girls in Little Pretty Boxes. By Joan Ryan writing this book it caused changes in the sport of gymnastics. For example, USA gymnastics made a handbook for parents telling them about the danger of gymnastics at the elite level, such as eating disorders, serious injuries, and abusive …show more content…

In the Scarlet Letter Chillingworth mentally abuses Dimmesdale tormenting him with comments designed to trigger fear and agony. This ultimately leads to the death of Dimmesdale. In Little Girls in Pretty Boxes the athletes are being mentally abused by their parents and coaches.
“Their job is not to turn out happy, well-adjusted young women; if they prod an injured girl to forget her pain, if they push her to drop out of school, they are only doing what the parents have paid them to do” (11). In the fictional story the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of a woman tormented by the townspeople for committing adultery. With fiction the author can paint a story in any way to deliver the right emotion to the audience. However, nonfiction must stay to the actual facts of the story. Typically, nonfiction stories contain eye-opening details that wouldn’t be believable if written as fiction. For example, the story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were 2 olympic ice skating athletes trying to win gold. Tonya Harding had someone try to break Nancy Kerrigan’s legs so that she couldn’t compete. It is unbelievable as nonfiction, but as fiction it would seem too far out there to

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