Rhetorical response for Home Girl

Texas monthly’s interview of Erykah Badu was a very well written and interesting essay that kept me involved and eager to read more. Prior to reading this I had no idea who Miss Badu was, reading this article was very different from most in that it did not focus on her credentials, but rather focused her as a person. It put very little mention into her 4 Grammy awards, or really any of her fame at all. The mood and feeling that is set by the author is a very good example of how to change the setting with your writing. When she was at home with her children, I got a totally different feel than when she was out and about with the interviewer. At home it showed her soft and sensitive side as a mother, along with her spiritual side. But when she goes into the real world and cruises around her “old hood “you feel a more worldly sense to her. Despite myself not really caring for her music genre as a whole, I really respect her seemingly genuine respect for the music world. Another thing that was well done in this essay was the smoothness and transitions into each paragraph. One reason for this is because the author of the article obviously did not include every last detail about the day he spent with Erykah. This is something I jotted down in my notes for things to do in Essay #3. I like that Miss Buda seems to have stayed true to her roots as a Texan. Not your typical Texan, but none the less the Dallas music scene is glad to have her aboard with her many contributions to the industry. The Author seemed to go from a very distant perspective, to a very close perspective very effectively. I can’t decide if in my essay I will keep it 3rd, 1st , or both perspectives. But reading essays like this give me the ideas and ground work to do either one. Descriptions of the surroundings in this essay come effortlessly and are not forced on the reader at all. I hope to capture the person the same way shown in this article. Its always very easy to write about some ones credentials and accomplishments, but it will be difficult to replicate the sense of personality and environment shown in this article