Apology Not Accepted
Amy Schumer is a funny lady. She makes jokes about things that others are scared to make jokes about. She is unapologetic in everything she does. She lives her life to the fullest. She wants all of her fans and readers to do the same. She wants them to live their best, most unapologetic life. In her memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, she exemplifies this message through her humorous tone, her appeals to pathos, and her easy to read diction.
Humor is something that comes naturally to Amy Schumer. It’s no wonder that as a standup comedian, she would use humor in her memoir. But the way that she uses her, sometimes risky sense of humor, to show that in life one doesn't need to apologize for simply living the way
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they want is so empowering. She shows that through her life, she has used her humor to help her realize that no one should feel the need to apologize all the time when they are simply living their life. For instance, she says “He shot me a pained look, pulled his pants down, and peed shit out of his ass for about thirty seconds. Thirty seconds is an eternity, by the way, when you're watching your dad volcanically erupt from his behind. Think about it now. One Mississippi. That’s just one” (55). She takes this heart wrenching moment of watching your father’s body lose control of itself because of his disease, that most people would just want to cry about and turns it into something slightly funny that you can chuckle at. She uses her comedic abilities in her writing to help the reader come to conclusion that, they too, don’t need to stress about any little thing for this is their life and they have nothing to apologize for. Amy Schumer has faced many difficulties in her life.
In her memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, she discusses her lowest points with her readers so she can appeal to pathos and connect with them through getting them to understand how dark these moments truly were for her. One example of her appeal to pathos is when she discusses how her virginity was taken without her consent. She says “My fantasy of a beautiful intimate memorable moment between two people had been taken from me in a flash. He took it. I didn't know it then, but I know now that it toughened me up in an irreversible way.” (89). This passage shows a more vulnerable side to her and opens up a window into one of her darkest moments which elicits a sympathetic connection with her reader. This connection then allows for her to pass on her words of advice to readers because they can see themselves identifying with her and her heartbreak.
Throughout The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Schumer uses simple diction. She does this so she can keep her passages relatable and easy to read. She wanted to be able to reach a wide variety of people and using this simplified diction allowed her to do so. Her diction choice also allowed the reader to feel as if the whole memoir was more of a deep talk with Amy Schumer rather than reading about a famous person's life. This helped her, again, build that connection with her audience and get them to truly grasp and comprehend her message: you don’t have to apologize for living
your best life. Through her humorous tone, appeals to pathos, and relatable diction, Amy Schumer was able to make a connection with her audience which led her being able to portray to her audience that as long as they are living their best, happiest life then there is no need to apologize to anyone. Amy Schumer is a funny lady, but she is also so much more. She is lady who won’t take flack from anyone and always sticks up for herself. She is an empowering role model who just wants to ensure we all live our lives to the fullest.
Tattoo’s that are removable are not romantic, and it’s the wuss way to do it. I believe that the main idea of this article is how she got a tattoo that most people would regret because of how much she picked at it, but she didn’t regret it like most people would. In one of the paragraphs she says how even though her tattoo is blurry, scarred, and bad-looking, but she still has no regrets about it unlike 17% of the people in America who have tattoo’s.
Her essay is arranged in such a way that her audience can understand her life - the positives and the negatives. She allows her audience to see both sides of her life, both the harsh realities that she must suffer as well as her average day-to-day life. According to Nancy, multiple sclerosis “...has opened and enriched my life enormously. This sense that my fragility and need must be mirrored in others, that in search for and shaping a stable core in a life wrenched by change and loss, change and loss, I must recognize the same process, under individual conditions, in the lives around me. I do not deprecate such knowledge” (Mairs, 37). Mairs big claim is that she has accepted herself and her condition for what is it, yet she refuses to allow her condition to define her. Through her particular diction, tone, satire, and rhetorical elements, Mairs paints a picture of her life and shows how being a cripple has not prevent her from living her life. She is not embarrassed nor ashamed of what she is, and accepts her condition by making the most of it and wearing the title with
This thesis, in short, is her statement: “Despite looking decidedly ‘normal’, I am, in fact, a de facto member of the ‘other’” (9). She then spends the rest of the essay describing the many ways she is discriminated against. All of her evidence seems to support this thesis and her purpose of the essay. She speaks about social media and its influence in portraying disabled people, of the unemployment and victim rates in disabled women, and provides some examples of how many villains in day-to-day movies and shows are mostly disabled.
This backdrop may be used to represent various issues such as language, labels, and a reclaiming process that is undertaken by many people in the community who are oppressed. For example, the people who are disabled in the community are usually not different in any aspect that may be presented in the text. In the expression of the term cripple, the author finds it offensive and decides to use freak instead. Also, he explains why he does so by narrating a story to the people who are disabled to make them feel better. Hence, the use of the word freak by Clare does not imply a negative meaning. Instead. It reinforces the attitude the disabled people have towards themselves (Rosemarie
When informing the readers that her fans would often write not only about her work but also about “… [her] youthful indiscretions, the slings and arrows I suffered as a minority…” (Tan 1), this bothered Tan to an extent because she By educating herself she was able to form her own opinion and no longer be ignorant to the problem of how women are judge by their appearance in Western cultures. By posing the rhetorical question “what is more liberating” (Ridley 448), she is able to get her readers to see what she has discovered. Cisneros also learned that despite the fact that she did not take the path that her father desired, he was still proud of all of her accomplishments. After reading her work for the first time her father asked “where can I get more copies” (Cisneros 369), showing her that he wanted to show others and brag about his only daughters accomplishments.
The theme of isolation is utilized in writing to shape the principal characters and provide a particular vision on some crucial aspects of their identities. Authors such as Nancy Mairs in, “On Being a Cripple” Zora Neale Hurston in, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” and Sherman Alexie in, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, offer us characterization to set the theme of isolation in their writing. In “On Being a Cripple” Mairs examines the public’s view of the disabled, as well as the views they have of themselves, and compare them to her own. In “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” Hurston discusses how she embraces being a girl of color in a world where people can be very discriminating. In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Sherman talks about how reading and writing helped shape his life in a positive way. Every author has their own unique way to express isolation in their writing such as personal experience which provides creditability to the writing and further engages the reader.
“Those Jarreds...if we start having reporters all over the lawn again...” (4). While the obvious play of ethics is stated I began to think about it. What stood out to me was the detachment people, medical professionals in particular, can hold towards their patients because of human curiosity. Medical professionals occasionally need to detach that the patient is a person with a life to logically deal with their case. In doing this, human curiosity becomes a primal factor of how they respond to their patients. Patients may start to believe people view them as something to wonder at, or broken because of the physical treatment they received, and some people will. In “Mirror Image” the media becomes transfixed on the girl who has a new body. The medical procedure Alice went through will start becoming affiliated to her name. While the brain transplant will for sure affect her identity, it's also a possibility she will enable it to consume and define who she is. These perceptions I had from “Mirror Image” caused me to create my drawing to illustrate how people can have prejudice to others because of their medical
The college had a group called My Mother’s Fleabag, they put on performances of improvisational comedy, according to Ciovacco (20). They made jokes, everyone was included, and ideas came up on the spot. Amy loved watching My Mother’s Fleabag and talked to one of the members. Kara McNamara motivated Amy to audition for the group (Ciovacco 20). Amy got into the group and performed with them. The group was always rehearsing and acting out sketches. McNamara and Amy became really good friends and they decided to move off campus into a house together. In 1993 Amy graduated college, and she moved to Chicago to start on her improv skills. Ciovacco claims Chicago is a major training ground for comedians (27). Amy started improv classes, where she would act out scenes, and study the forms of improv with songs, games, etc. According to Ciovacco, She still wanted to be on stage more than anything. Amy joined a group called ImprovOlympics (25). The group put on thirty-minute shows and it was usually at midnight. Amy said she learned a lot about herself when performing because she was put on the spot in front of an audience. Ciovacco mentions Amy found herself being sexual, and physical. She even turned into a desperate person wanting to make a joke at times, and even turning into a shy person
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has two main storylines and one “other”, arguably just as important story though; the first story is the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, and second the murder of multiple women by a serial killer, the lesser storyline has to do with the character Wennestrom.
In the novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, one of the protagonists, Mikael Blomkvist, who is a reporter for the newspaper firm Millennium, is guilty of libel against a well-known business man named Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. Blomkvist is committed to clearing his name from this alleged misconduct because he is not actually guilty. Meanwhile, Henrik Vanger, a prominent 82-year old industrialist, who owns most of Hedeby Island in Sweden, hires Blomkvist to solve the presumed murder of his beloved niece, Harriet Vanger. He offers Blomkvist more than double his salary at Millenium and evidence of Wennerstrom’s crookedness to clear his name from the libel.
“Where ever I go, the Cultural Revolution followed me,” Said a reminiscing, Chinese woman as she summarized her troublesome past in only one sentence. That woman was Ji-Li Jiang, author of children’s books such as The Magical Monkey King and Lotus and Feather. But one auto-biography has touched the hearts of many with its inspiring, melodramatic memoirs of a girl’s life during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Scarf Girl tells the story of Jiang as a twelve-year old girl in 1960s China through a central theme of having courage, even in the darkest times.
One night Georgiana overhears a dream he has in which he tries to remove her birthmark but ends up having to cut out her heart. Upset, she confronts him, and he admits to the dream, informing her in more depth about his abhorrence of the blemish on her cheek. By this point, Georgiana’s self-esteem is practically nonexistent and she has grown tired of her husband’s constant repulsed looks. Indeed, she now refers to the birthmark as “terrible” and tries to hide it from her husband’s view when he looks at her. In light of his dream, she tells him “Danger is nothing to me; for life, while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust—life is a burden which I will fling down with joy” (Hawthorne 140). Aylmer’s relentless preoccupation with her birthmark has affected her so deeply that she would rather die than be on the receiving end of his revulsion any
A controversial topic today is whether or not body piercings and tattoos should be accepted by professionals working in health care. Currently, tattoos and piercings are allowed in health care as long as they are not visible. According to one of the studies, “Body piercing is defined as a piercing of the body anywhere other than the earlobes” (Westerfield). Therefore, the only visible piercings allowed are small studs in the lobes of the ears for females. The reason body piercings and tattoos are not suggested in health care is that they keep someone from looking professional as well as making them look intimidating. Not everyone sees them that way. The opposing side is that they do not affect
In my opinion, her jokes were just more relatable to my generation's idea of comedy. Her joke about Birkenstocks being something she used to wear and Urban Outfitters selling these shoes makes it prevalent and sneers at hipsters and hippies. Then at the end she sings the National Anthem in a vivacious and incoherent manner that ridicules Beyoncé lip-syncing the National Anthem at the 2013 inauguration. Just knowing the little ideas behind her humor allows me to relate to her jokes and makes it more
Tattoos have emerged to be a popular art, and are something that is admired by many. A perfect tattoo can act as a medium of expression and thus is often connected with the emotions of the person who carries it. In fact, today they have evolved to be a form of trend, where each and every enthusiast loves to get an interesting design, pattern or style from an expert tattoo artist.