Essay #3 Channel B by Megan Stielstra

Channel B is about a woman with a baby. The woman is able to go through channels of her baby's safety camera, and stumbles upon channel B with another baby. The woman becomes obsessed with watching channel B, comparing herself to the other mother. The author's credibility in this passage seems a bit hard to be convinced by. She has enough detail in her story to make it coherent and allows the reader to infer certain things (Mainly about the other mother) but we don't know for sure. I feel like the essay seems solid enough to where the authors message of : You are never alone, was portrayed but there is a single inkling of doubt based in the author's lack of established ethos. However, in terms of establishing a more sentimental feeling with the reader, Stielstra succeeds. By using her repetition and compare and contrast, she is able to express an idea many can relate to: The grass is greener on the other side. I feel like this essay has a very broad audience, as the advice one would gain from this essay in particular is vague enough to apply to many aspects of life, but specific enough where the message doesn't feel like some sort of cop-out answer to a "How you should live your life" exam. Overall, I would say the author did a fine job at getting her point across. Her writing was very clear and her message was straightforward. Perfect for such a huge audience.

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