Sender and receiver

The essay “Stability in Motion” was published in 2014, in a posthumous collection of essays by the author, Marina Keegan. The fact that the essay is included in a book published after the author’s death suggests that the text is one of her representative works.

Sender

As a sender, Marina Keegan presents credibility and interest through her popularity and dramatic end. Before she died in a car crash, young Marina Keegan already gained fame through her essay “The Opposite of Loneliness”, which went viral on the Internet.

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Receiver

Because the essay focuses on teenage Keegan’s relationship with her car, some target receivers are teenagers and their parents: “I acquired the old Camry through an awkward transaction. Ten days before my sixteenth birthday, my grandfather died.” (ll. 32-34)

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