So far, her potential purpose could be to show everyone how you can move on from the negative events and obstacles in your life. After getting beaten consistently for years, getting taken from her mother, and almost dying, Judy Westwater was able to move onto her adulthood and write her book. She enabled herself to demonstrate how she moved on and can share her story with the world.
Westwater is able to achieve her purpose appealing to pathos. She uses phrases like "where I was eating ashes" and "I could have died" to make her audience feel desperately sympathetic towards the author and her situation (2, 29). Her hard hitting diction attacks your heart until tears swell in your eyes- her story is inspiring. She describes her childhood and how she never lived the "normal" life a child should live. She was beaten senselessly by her father’s girlfriend and almost died due to her unnecessary force and wounding whips. After the police did some investigating, she could leave but had to go to an orphanage where she was able to demonstrate how alienated she felt amongst other children. Westwater was scolded for not understanding how to eat properly and not wanting to play with the kids.
Judy Westwater proves she was able to develop independence and worry for herself. She shows us the power of looking after yourself when she describes how she never knew what it meant to play and she only knew how to sulk and hide. She had to worry for herself more than be a true kid and have fun.
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