http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/girl-forced-adoptive-mother-impregnate-donor-sperm-article-1.1330492
In this article Tracy Miller writes about an adoptive mother to forced her daughter to impregnate herself via donor sperm purchased online. Throughout the whole article, Miller describes what the mother has done and what are her consequences. Her adoptive daughter identified only as "A", has miscarried babies at 14, and delivered a child at 16, after various attempts. The reason why the mother did this to her adoptive daughter is because she was unabled to have a child due to her health conditions and she could not adopt more children.According to "A", she was very shocked when her mother requested her to do this, and she said that it was very humiliating, degrading, and painful. She was also prohibited to eat or drink anything with vinegar, lemon, and lime juices, because her mother believed that this would result in a female baby. Even though "A" did not want to, she obeyed her mother and inseminated herself alone in her bedroom, because she was "not brave enough" and because "she loved her mother". Because of this, the adoptive mother is serving in prison for 5 years.
The purpose of this article is to describe the crime that an adoptive mother has committed against her daughter. In order to write an effective descriptive essay, Miller uses quotes directly from the adoptive daughter. Besides that, to explain that it was an extremely wicked crime, she appeals to authority, the judge, who expresses that he could not believe how a parent could act in such wicked and selfish manner towards her daughter. Besides that Miller uses numerous rhetorical devices, and one of them is metaphor. In the beginning, in order to exaggerate the case (hyporbole?), she states that the girl underwent a living hell. Besides that, the writer uses continous parallel syntax in order to create a serious tone and create a "pause" between each syntax.
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