Analysis on "Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian" by Laura Fraser

Why I stopped being a Vegetarian

Soaps:

Speaker: an educated woman, who reflects on her previous decisions regarding being a vegetarian, she is educated and justifies her arguments.

Occasion: this discusses the author’s reasons for no longer being a vegetarian and how her original argument for being one was full of fallacies.

Audience: this is directed to an average American, particularly someone who is a vegetarian or considering becoming one.

Purpose: The purpose is to express the authors reasons for no longer being a vegetarian and her original intent, as well as her original reasons for being one.

Subject: this discusses why the author stopped being a vegetarian.

Tone: this has a sarcastic and personal tone, which shows the fallacies in her original reason for becoming a vegetarian.

Thesis:

In Laura Fraser’s passage, Why I stopped being a Vegetarian, she sarcastically asserts the multiple reasons for why she stopped being a vegetarian and why she started it in the first place. She does this by addressing her own fallacies in her original argument for why she was a vegetarian, this serves to support her claims for no longer being a vegetarian, providing personal examples, which further bolster her argument, and using sarcasm, which shows the idiocracy of originally attempting to be a vegetarian, thus providing more support for no longer being one.