Marcia Aldrich wrote a well arranged essay called The Art of Being Born. This essay takes place in Seattle during the brisk spring of 2013. This essay is about the befuddled child that was herself, surrounding the matter of her birth. She writes this now in the effort to not only tell the birth story but make it clear that she knows the story. It will not be something that the child will have to wonder about years later, in the ways that young Aldrich had to. So she argues the fact that it is important that every child should know their birth story. Aldrich does this very well, through the usage of different rhetorical strategy's, such as imagery, similes, and allusions. She also uses her tone to get her point across to the audience.
"I was born on February 26 in a dead winter. No baby pictures were taken. No baby book, where the important milestones are recorded, exists. I was installed in a wood-paneled room down a long corridor at the back of the house". This example of imagery displays a well painted picture of her argument. The audience can acknowledge the fact that it is very detailed but indirectly you can read that there is minimal information within that quote. In other words the author feels deprived of her story and wishes she could be more vivid with the audience but can't because she doesn't know her own birth story. .
Aldrich is a very imaginative author as you can infer from her essay. She consistently mentions the fact that she has made up her own birth stories. So it was no surprise to me when she states, in a usage of simile, that "Mothers know the story and tell it like a favorite fairy tale to the child", because she grew up on fairy tales. Her childhood was a fairy tale. This quote in particular is very crucial, because it presents the reasons behind the argument. For instance, living in a fairy tale may sound like every kids dream but you constantly live in a state of confusion of who you are, and rather than make up fairy tales of her daughter's birth story, she wanted to make the daughter's birth story a fairytale within itself.
