Little Boy Pink.

I read the article, Little Boy Pink about a mother whos son has a bit of a feminine side. I believe that the strategy that affects how the essay communicates to its audience the most is her tone. It's difficult to get across explaining your son loves to dress up girly, but not make him sound gay, or make you sound disapproving, when you're not. Her tone isn't concerned and in wonderment about what to do with her son, it's more understanding and allowing in letting her son dress up and wear nail polish. Her tone helps set a mood for her audience, she allows the audience to laugh at what she's saying instead of making it awkward. Her tone definitely sets up, as tone normally does, the whole article. More so in this because she's getting her point across strongly, but not forcibly. It's very light and understanding. It makes it easy for the reader to understand as well instead of arguing her stance in allowing her son to wear pink.

I chose between diction and tone, because I felt it was her words that really helped express her view and her situation. It sounds obvious, but her words give a visual image of her son dressing up and prancing around, and her tone behind the words make it sound like she's on the sidelines approving of it, and obviously not being disapproving.

I can't think of any questions right now..