1. A Wagner Matinee Willa Cather Jennifer Thomas Karina Rios Andrew Ayala

2. Thesis or Claim Don’t give up your passion because once it’s gone you stop living. “ ‘Don’t love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh! Dear boy, pray that whatever you sacrifice be it is not that.’ ”

3. Tone or Attitude Depressed Seems to come to a sense of realization Sadness Loneliness

4. Purpose To let the public know that if you give up your passion and dreams that will keep you from living Without emotion and feeling you are but a mere corpse that can move

5. Audience and Occasion Anyone who has a life-long dream that they want to accomplish and then they allow situations or people to get in their way to stop them from accomplishing their goals Message was to anyone who was struggling through life (i.e. immigrants)

6. Evidence or Data The story was written at a time in the U.S when people were being judged for how they looked and where they came from. (more than just African Americans) It was also written by a woman who do did not have rights and were expected to rely on man to make them happy.

7. Appeals: logos, ethos, pathos pathos: appeals to the emotion by allowing the reader to understand why Aunt Georgiana feels the way that she does ethos: It is obvious that if the Aunt had not given up on her passion she would not be so "dead" and would have enjoyed her life

8. Assumptions or Warrents We can assume form the story that Willa Cather may have felt some of the same feelings that Aunt Georgiana may have been feeling in the story. Rather than being stuck between city and country she is stuck being between men and women. She wants to be given the respect women are not being given during this time.

9. Style diction: writes the story from the language used in 1940s description of every little detail to give reader an essence of what was truly occurring (i.e describes the letter sent by his uncle) writes the story about the boys aunt through his eyes, this helps the reader understand why the aunt acts the way she does and where she has come from

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