Thursday, October 15, 2009

Skinny Jeans, Akward Title

My Skinny Jeans is an essay with an awkward title yet it is good examples for the saying “do not judge a book by its cover.” If examined closely, it is a very effective and unique title. In My Skinny Jeans there are no references to jeans until the concluding paragraph which causes the title to seem ineffective and throw some readers off. In that paragraph though the sentence "I may always have a pair of skinny jeans in the back of my closet, but I knew someday I would slide them on with ease, every zipper zipped and every button buttoned" appears. One could replace “a pair of skinny jeans” with the experience that girl encounters in the essay and replace “closet” with “mind” so it reads "I may always have “that experience” in the back of my “mind”...” This in turn causes the second clause to be interpreted as someday she will be able to reach her goal and that she will eventually be a great dancer. Just as anyone can button or zip their jeans with ease, she will know how to dance by heart.

No comments:

Post a Comment