Analysis

Here, we present you the main topics we focus on in our analysis of “Stability in Motion” by Marina Keegan.

The sender of the essay is Marina Keegan. As a sender, she presents credibility and interest through her popularity and dramatic end. The intended receivers of her essay are all English-speaking readers that purchase her book.

We also address aspects related to argumentation, rhetorical devices, and forms of appeal. For example, the author uses hidden argumentation to convey her views and arguments. She does not state directly that her essay is about how people may choose to express their personality. Instead, she presents a personal story about her relationship with her first car.

Marina Keegan’s style of writing is accessible, playful, personal, and reveals a changing tone. From content to sad, from funny to nostalgic, the writer’s shifting tone manages to hold readers’ attention and to engage them with the topic of the essay.

In the essay, the use of personal experiences gives Marina Keegan credibility and authority, helps build a connection with the audience through empathy and pathos, and makes the argumentation more accessible and relatable. Readers are more likely to accept arguments that are not fixed and rigid, that only present one of many perspectives on a topic (in this case, on identity and teenage life).

You can find the whole analysis of the essay in the following pages.