"Skeletons in the Closet", by Clara Spotted Elk, is an essay that is effective due to its usage of fantastic word choice. The aggressive tone and emotionally packed language help convey Elk's message as well as convince her audience with regards to her thesis. In using this language, Elk helps the readers in perceiving Elk's personal thoughts and experiences on the topic. Readers feel a sense of psychological connection with the problem the author is going through. Her use of parallelism with other racial minorities and how their rights are also taken away in this regard also helps readers interpret the situation at hand. However, I would argue that equating both African Americans and Native Americans in this situation is a form of ineffectiveness in Elk's essay, since these two situations might not be equal. Without an explanation, she simply states that African American skeletons are also taken by the Smithsonian, but readers are left confused by how both situations are related. When it comes to blacks, there might be a variety of different and unique reasons for the preservation of these skeletons as opposed to the situation of…show more content… Her evidences ranged from personal narrative, data, percentages, and an analysis of disabled people in social media. The use of all these varous types of evidences, rather than just one or two create a well-rounded essay. However, some of Peterson's evidence is slightly slanted and biased due to the experiences that she went through. Her view on social media's outlook on disability seems to be shaped as a result of her experiences; another disabled person might see the same movie and not think about it in the same way as she did. Your point is also very vital-- taking evidences from another point of view would have opened both Peterson's and the audience's minds to what others might think, as opposed to only seeing one side of the
