Commonalities of Wrestling and Soap Operas - Essay Example

1. I particularly like his hyphenated adjectives which show his enthusiasm such as “Mr. McMahon is one of those all-bad, all-the-time characters.”
2. The whole point of the essay was adequately illustrated through the specific names and stories of personalities such as Hulk Hogan (WWE), Rose Marler (Guiding Light), and Hornswoggle (WWE).
3. At least from a holistic point of view, Wrestling and Soap Operas seem to have commonalities in mediums of plot development and overall themes, but I doubt their specifics converge.
4. For example, the experience of having your first kiss and riding a plane. You’re not sure of what you’re feeling at first but you want to do it over and over again after. There are no specific instructions on how to do it and lastly, it gives you a natural high.

Discussion 2

            The thesis of the essay is implicitly expressed by stating the question, why are Americans so easily lured to shop in malls in the first place? From this statement alone, we can surmise that the topic of the essay is to state the differences between malls and downtown districts which lead to Americans patronizing malls more than downtown businesses.

            The main thing that holds the paragraph together is already stated by the title- Shopping in America, and it has already been assumed that American shoppers only have two means of shopping in the U.S., that is, going to the mall or downtown. Focusing on these two, the essay was developed in a block format, meaning it developed one subject before it went to another. In my opinion, I would’ve preferred an essay that was developed point by point so that one could really exemplify why malls are more frequently visited by Americans.

            Alas, I don’t think the conclusion was grown out of the topic that well because the truth that “American malls grow because someone with enormously deep pockets decides to plunk it down where there used to be woods or a golf course” seems to be assumed and no premonition that the conclusion was going to be this was given by the essay.

            Now that I think about it, the essay’s development was also not very fair in the first place because while malls were exemplified and backed by fairly logical reasons why one would prefer shopping there, downtown centers were exemplified with a sense of rhetoric and ‘ad miseries cordial or an appeal to the reader’s emotions. His contrasts are overdone to exemplify the faults of downtown and because of this, his preference for malls seems to be implied throughout the whole essay.