Rhetorical response for Home Girl

There was many things that I liked about this essay. I didnt think it was going to be a very good story at first but after getting into it and after reading it I found it to be pretty interesting. One thing that I liked about Erykah. She is famous for singing, yet she wanted to be a normal person living a normal life. I found this kind of odd at first because usually people want to be famous so they can get all the attention and glory from fan and people. But, in this case Erykah Badu just was famous because she did what she loved to do. In the story it mentions that music is not even the most important thing in her life. She says that yes, it does make money but she actually loves to do things like raise her kids. I think that alot of famous might be able to relate to what she says. It seems like for the most part, after becoming famous, famous people just want to be normal and have regular lives. Well that is exactly what this home-town Dallas girl is doing. She get to do what everyone dreams of. Making a lot of money and being famous yet she wants to just have a normal life. The narrator did a good job on this story. For example the story is about Erykah Badu. It is not about the things she has accomplished or the songs or albums she sings. It is about her life and what she likes to do and how she acts at home. Another example of how the narrator also did this when he was talking about the grammy's that Erykah had won. It had not even mentioned the grammys but for only a brief moment. Although it was such a big accomplishment in her life in the story it had only said very little about it. The author also did a good job in other areas of the story. He didnt spend too much time on details that were not nessasary. We had talked about this in class today. It was one of the things that we looked for and talked about in the story along with how the author stayed more focused on her rather than the things she has done witch was also talked about in class. Back to having good detail, we talked about not putting useless and unmeaningful things into the story. Everything should relate back to the main purpose. Another thing that we talked about in class is having info that you can tell that there was an interview or resource other than observation. In the story it talked about how she dressed at home and what she was doing in particular cases in her house and so on. Well, this gives good descrition to the reader in many ways. The reader can tell that the narrator has talked to Eyrkah in an interview of some way or another. As talked about in class, that is also an important thing to do. In conslusion, I thought this was a good reading and that the narrator did a real good job on organizing the information and staying on point and overall writing a good story. I really enjoyed it.