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The topic of the essay Buzzards by Lee Zacharias is a balance between information about vultures and a glimpse into the life of Zacharias's own father. Lee Zacharias has published numerous
books, essays and short stories. In her lifetime she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council ("Lee Zacharias"). Lee has also had a successful career as a photographer; she writes in the essay Buzzards her experience of taking pictures of vultures. The essay goes into detail about facts of vultures and how they act in the wild as well as perceived in various cultures. Lee writes about her silent father, an old-fashioned man, who never approved of Lee achieving her dreams of writing and photography. In the essay Zacharias writes her father's eventual suicide and her own insight to his tragic life and death. The two stories draw parallels between them that reveal the purpose to the essay. To persuade and inform the audience that in life being vocal about dreams is needed to avoid a lonely life and death is the purpose to this particular essay. Lee Zacharias directs Buzzards to people who are contemplating on whether to speak up and follow their dreams in life. Logos was used in the essay and was important in order to achieve the purpose. The Logic given in the essay main analysis found through the writing of the vultures. Lee writes about how in different cultures the vultures has been viewed in certain ways. In particular “Africans believe that vultures dream the location of their food...Why would we dream, if never to leave the domain of our waking world?” (Atwan 281). The reasoning included in the statement is to express the parallels between the two stories that dreams should be followed. In my opinion the author did accomplish her purpose in this essay. By the author writing about her own experiences with her father and the vultures it was easy to see what the Lee was trying to show in her writing. I personally saw that by speaking up about dreams my life could be lived to the fullest.
books, essays and short stories. In her lifetime she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council ("Lee Zacharias"). Lee has also had a successful career as a photographer; she writes in the essay Buzzards her experience of taking pictures of vultures. The essay goes into detail about facts of vultures and how they act in the wild as well as perceived in various cultures. Lee writes about her silent father, an old-fashioned man, who never approved of Lee achieving her dreams of writing and photography. In the essay Zacharias writes her father's eventual suicide and her own insight to his tragic life and death. The two stories draw parallels between them that reveal the purpose to the essay. To persuade and inform the audience that in life being vocal about dreams is needed to avoid a lonely life and death is the purpose to this particular essay. Lee Zacharias directs Buzzards to people who are contemplating on whether to speak up and follow their dreams in life. Logos was used in the essay and was important in order to achieve the purpose. The Logic given in the essay main analysis found through the writing of the vultures. Lee writes about how in different cultures the vultures has been viewed in certain ways. In particular “Africans believe that vultures dream the location of their food...Why would we dream, if never to leave the domain of our waking world?” (Atwan 281). The reasoning included in the statement is to express the parallels between the two stories that dreams should be followed. In my opinion the author did accomplish her purpose in this essay. By the author writing about her own experiences with her father and the vultures it was easy to see what the Lee was trying to show in her writing. I personally saw that by speaking up about dreams my life could be lived to the fullest.
Work Cited
Atwan, Robert, and Adam Gopnik. The Best American essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Print.
"Lee Zacharias - UNCG | Creative Writing." UNCG MFA Homepage - UNCG | Creative Writing. UNCG Creative Writing , n.d. Web. 12 Aug. 2013. <http://mfagreensboro.org/faculty/lee-zacharias/>.
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