TOW #22 - Eat, Pray, Love

In the memoir Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Gilbert shares her story of how she turned her life around after she went through a very difficult divorce. She faced depression through a period of her life as she tried to pick life back up. This memoir is about Gilbert’s experiences in Italy, India and Indonesia where she was able to obtain good food, her spiritual side, and love. All three of these locations helps Gilbert rehabilitate her mind as she grows into a stronger person. Elizabeth Gilbert is and American author best known for this memoir, which has become a New York Times Best Seller. Elizabeth Gilbert wrote this memoir to share her story with the world about how she was able to learn how to live and enjoy her life after all of these positive experiences she had.

The rhetorical devices used in Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir are metaphors, and personification. She uses both of these rhetorical devices in order to enhance her memoir and make her audience feel they are able to connect with the memoir better. Both of these rhetorical devices are used throughout her memoir to help her successfully deliver her story she wants to tell to her audience. One metaphor she uses she compares emotions to a slave. She describes how one’s thoughts are deeply influenced by emotions. An example of personification used in Gilbert’s memoir is when she describes how much she loved the pizza she ate. She questions if the pizza might actually love her back. She uses this rhetorical device to effectively describe how she has become much happier than she was previously. She uses the pizza to describe that there is hope for her life to become better.

I believe that Elizabeth Gilbert proved her purpose because she successfully shares her experiences with the audience and proves how her life changed for the better. Gilbert has proved that with determination that if one wants to change their life around, they have the ability to do it.