Analysis

Other Literary Analysis


 * 1) **Subject:** The subject of the text is the growing number of people with no homes, the homeless.
 * 2) **Occasion:** The occasion could be at any time, but was in the Port Authority Bus Terminal when the speaker approaches a homeless women for some questions.
 * 3) **Audience:** The audience of this text is the public, or anyone who feels as if they should know more about the homeless.
 * 4) **Purpose:** The purpose is to disprove what most people may think about the homeless and to show that rather than being "the homeless," they are also people; but people with no homes.
 * 5) **Speaker:** The speaker is the author, Anna Quindlen. Often throughout the text she states her own opinion about the subject.
 * 6) **Tone:** The author's tone is very serious, yet tranquil. It is serious because the subject is also very serious, but tranquil because she knows that there is a solution for each of these individuals. Quindlen uses this tone to get through to the reader in order to convey the purpose.
 * 7) **Symbolism:** The author uses symbols like the photo of the house to show that this homeless woman once had a home, and once was much more than she is now, even though she is still the same person deep down, just much less materialistic.

