"On the want of Money" (Analysis Essay)

      The moral of many stories is the inspiration that money can’t buy happiness and that people will live a happy life without money. In this passage the author states that he completely disagrees with his, money may not buy happiness, but without money misery is sure to follow a person. The idea of being without money is pure craziness according to the author; it is a life full of despair. With the use of syntax, and diction Hazlitt point his view that a person could not possibly be happy or have a good life without money.

     With the aid of diction the author makes reader feel the hardship of being poor, with his persistent, dreary, harsh diction. “Literally and truly, one cannot get on well in the world without money”, the author’s use of the worlds literally and truly were merely there to add emphasize to how the author takes a serious to express he is truly behind this statement of money. The author has a very complex diction that is really sharp; “it is not to have your opinion consulted or else rejected with contempt, to have your acquirements carped at and doubted”, here the author is obviously referring to money on how without it the person’s opinion is not accepted as if it was not important. With the use of words like “rejected”, or “carped”, the author gets the reader the feeling of worthlessness and sorrow as if it were they the miserable poor people. The author is very persistent through his essay as to keep putting the reader down with the use of constant details explaining how being without money is the worst thing that can happened to someone, “it is to be scrutinized by strangers, and neglected by friends”, here the author is explaining how a without money is hated by all not even friends are there to be at their aid. The reader gets the kind of depressed feeling from the author with his ruthless diction the reader gets the true point of the author being that being poor is so difficult and painful nobody would dare want to lose their money.

     Furthermore, the author does not only use diction to get his point across , but also with the help of syntax the author gets to create a piece of writing in which the reader gets to experience the live of a moneyless person with the constant put downs through their miserable lives. The whole essay is just a composition filled with three sentences, the purpose of this is to put a large amount of emphasizes on the main point that poor people have life filled with nothing but despair. The use of the polysyndeton in this essay is to added to get the feeling of hopelessness, of the idea that once poor there is nothing in life to look forward to there is so much to get sad about, and with the use of the conjunction” or “the author makes the list of reasons why being poor is horrible seem endless, by the second sentence being 40 lines long. The author’s use of parallel and balance structure clauses divided by a semicolon seem to be never ending one thing right after the other nonstop incidents that make the reader feel suffocated with all the things a poor person goes through in their lives, as if they were the ones going through all this. The use of the anaphora “it is” within the essay helps in being specific about the subject the author wants to focus on. The use of asyndeton is quite use for the same reason, to make the life of a poor person seem exhausting with the lack of conjunctions to aid in a pause the reader continues on reading without stop to see how there really is no stop of the pain and the horrible feeling of being alive at all times a poor person has. The author later continues with that even if a poor person has a job it is a bad one that they hate, and if they pursue their dreams they will most likely fail and still be unhappy.

     The life of a person without money is a gruesome one that even at death that person will not rest in peace; instead they will be laugh at still by the rich people around them. “The wiseacres will possibly, however crowd round your coffin, and raise a monument at a considerable expense…” , the life of a poor person ends with rich people, ironically, at their death bed finally admiring the dead person and expending  money on them, while alive that person was put down coastally. The reader by the end of the essay gets the feeling of being deprived of their joy and hope of being happy in this world without money, which is exactly what  the author’s purpose for writing this essay. 

 

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Moments of Being (Analysis Essay)

Memories are enjoyed by people on a daily basis. Remembering a memory is almost like reliving that moment once again. Woolf has very vivid memories of her youth and expresses how much they mean to her. With the use of diction, syntax, and figurative language Woolf is able to convey her idea that with memories people are able to make connections with others as well as learn from them and overcome adversity.

     From the start the reader is able to see Wolf’s use of syntax as she uses an appositive to be able to explain her memory more clearly, “better than these walks, a treat announced perhaps once a fortnight was an afternoon sailing”. The author puts extra information about her memory of that summer to show the reader how well she remembers all of this, also to create a better image so the reader could make a connection with the author experience to that of their own. The reader then learns about the character Thoby, the brother of the author, to whom their father shows great affection and pride in, “show them you can bring her in, by boy, father said, with his usual trust and pride in Thoby. The author with the use of diction shows how much Thoby is loved by his father he is also trusted so much that his father let him drive the boat at that moment, to show that he believes in him and knows he can do it. Later the author tells the experience of Thoby driving that boat for the first time and how much this impact her, “and Thoby took the fisherman’s place; and steered; flushed, and with his blue eyes very blue, and his mouth set, he sat there, bringing us round the point..”, this moment signifies in which Thoby was not a child anymore, but a young man who was growing up right in front of her eyes taking responsibly of an adult. The author use of such descriptive diction and simple repetition syntax to show how intense her memory is and how very well she can remember it to demonstrate how this memory is important.

     To continue the author not only remembers my brother, but also “pale” jellyfish that with the use of a smile she compares to lamps which continues to show how vibrant her memories and diction are. The author then proceeds with a jargon of a fisherman to demonstrate how much Woolf was into fishing that all these unfamiliar words were so simple for her, also this shows how much into the memory the author got, “sometimes lines would be handed us; baited by gobbets cut from fish; and the line thrilled in one’s fingers as the boat tossed and shot through the water…” . The author clearly was very excited catching this fish and creating a complex compound sentence aides in the process to get the reader excited as well and deep into the author’s essay. Woolf uses very dramatic active verbs to create the tone of excitement to make the reader almost be with her in that boat twisting and turning trying to catch that fish.

     Afterward, the author displays a shift in her tone from excitement to that of remorse to indicate that something important is going too happened. The author loses her enthusiasm for a comment made by her father “next time if you are going to fish I shan’t come; I don’t like to see fish caught but you can go if you like”. At that moment the author is not treated like a small child, but a growing young lady force to make a difficult decision which will impact her for the rest of her life. The author writes a simple sentence to show what she got out of that statement from her father, “it was a perfect lesson”, simple, short and to the point showing that she learn something important at that moment. The author previously said how much she enjoyed fishing, but she was the one that made the decision to stop on account of what she really value was time with her father.

    Not only did the author stated of the difficult decision she had to make, but also that how she does not regret it or dislikes her father for giving her that responsibility, as a matter of fact she relives this memory to bring good memories to learn from in the present. The author writes that her memory allows her to relives that moment to feel that passion once more and continue to grow in her present life and be a better person. The author wants the reader to make a connection with her memories into their own life and try to make connections with other people, and learn from them as well.

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