Essays on Anna Quindlen

In the article “Driving to the Funeral,” author Anna Quindlen presents a powerful argument against under-age driving. In this article, Quindlen’s goal is to persuade her readers that we should increase the minimum driving age. It focuses on high school students who fail to graduate…

Anna Quindlen’s Write for Your Life begins with the movie ‘Freedom Writers’, in which teacher Erin Gruwell deals with the difficulties of teaching to a class of disconnected inner-city students by handing out “marbled composition books and the assignment to write their lives, ungraded, unjudged’….

We are living in a world where it is more important to own an iPhone 11, than to have a plate of food in our homes. Lars Eighner and Anna Quindlen have both written personal essays about consumerism and materialism. In Eigner’s personal essay “On…

In her vehement article, ‘The C Word in the Hallway”, Anna Quindlen addresses and exploits the issue of mental health in children and the ignorance that trails behind it. Quindlen utilizes pathos, ethos, and logos as well as multiple accounts of extended metaphors and repetition…

An analysis of the Quindlen’s article, “All My Babies are Gone” shows that monologue is the main literary device that she has used in the exposition of the article. Since this article describes Quindlen’s personal experiences in bringing up her three children, monologue as an…

Anna Quindlen’s “Driving to the Funeral” first appeared in the magazine Newsweek in 2007. In this essay Quindlen aims to convince her readers that we should lower the drinking age and raise the driving age. Depending on what state you live in the driving age…