A Celebrations of Tuna-excerpt from. Tuna: A Love Story Assignment.
This reading is a bit different because it’s a chapter from a larger work. But I’d like you to think about how this author crafts a narrative or an interesting story about a topic that might seem boring at first.
What techniques does the author use to incorporate evidence and information? How does he avoid just listing the evidence? What decisions do you think he made in regards to organizing his information? What techniques do you find here that you could use in your own writing.A Celebrations of Tuna-excerpt from. Tuna: A Love Story Assignment.
2 Question :
Save the Whales, Screw The Shrimp
This essay ends with a stream of conscious moment in which the author questions who you are (is she talking to the reader) and how environmental decline is a moral issue…and she ends the essay with a claim that someone should handle this issue but she needs to go. What do you think about this ending? What’s the purpose? How does it reflect the tone of the essay throughout? This essay is a part of a larger collection of essays by Joy Williams and she describes them as these essays as “rants and reflections.” Is this essay a rant? A reflection? Or is it some mixture of both? Why? Explain?A Celebrations of Tuna-excerpt from. Tuna: A Love Story Assignment.