Miss America by Day Marilyn Van Derbur analysis

Similarly, the persona use counterpoints as a rhetorical concept with an aim of putting the text in its rhetorical context and stress how the feeling felt like. Thus, she used the concept to express how the night sexual harassment felt horrible even though she sugar-coated the act with smile during the day since she did not know what to do since the orchestrator was her maternal father. For example, it feels good/I hate the feeling has been used as an emotion sensory-dissonance to show the audience how much the feeling of pleasures during the abuse haunted the persona (Van Derbur, 2003). Therefore, the author used different literal concepts such as humor to stress her encounter and PSTD brought about by the inhuman behavior she was compelled to by her biological father despite fathers being known for parental care and protection.

Critique/evaluation Though in some instance the title may be misleading, what the book especially dwells in is in the subtitle: a guide for parenting…handbook for sexual abuse survivors…resource of professionals…love story. However, in the mornings she would completely dissociate with the occurrences of the night by pretending to have forgotten them, during the day she functioned well and had a good relationship with her dad. The irony is when she becomes the Miss America; it hence brings forth the paradigm of typical American womanhood. During the awarding ceremony, her father escorts her hence the name “the day child. ” Then as noted above the issue of pretentious moving on comes out. When she finally settles down in a marital relationship with a safe man, swiftly approaching his forties is when her defense mechanism starts crumbling; she battles with extreme body tightening and body pains.