Eats Shoots and Leaves

by Lynne Truss
The speaker and author of Eats Shoots and Leaves is Lynne Truss. The audience that she reaches
out to is any human being, whether they are an author, writer, or editor or not, that fails to use
punctuation correctly. The message that the Lynne Truss portrays is that punctuation is
extremely important. People of all ages and professions make basic punctuation mistakes very
often.
Lynne Truss writes this book in an informal and conversational form. Generally an easy tone
appeals to the audience by making the topic and message approachable. Her arguments include
facts and humor which develops credibility between her and the audience. The authors goal is to
connect and correspond to those who cannot write anything with correct punctuation, or may be
having trouble with punctuation, to call upon the inspired audience she would have to create an
opening for trust, to make her thesis and her message believable.
There are various logical points that are made here. The author seizes facts and examples to
disclose that there is raw evidence of actual mistakes. Some of the most professional writers,
authors, and editors make punctuation errors.
The author's statement "punctuation could lead to anger", makes her audience and the reader
think to agree. There will normally be a frustration in writing if one genuinely does not know
how to punctuate. Another argument that Truss makes is that it is impolite to tell someone that
they are wrong. This sparks an emotional response from the audience because no one wants to be
wrong and on the other hand people do not want to offend others. The attention of the audience
is captured when Lynne Truss speaks about how native English speakers do not make the effort
to buy books about grammar and punctuation. The audience may feel like she is right. They
probably feel like they do not need to, but they do. Perhaps native speakers would feel ashamed
of getting a book about the grammar of their own language. The relatable points made make the
audience think about their place in the world of know how to punctuate. Using pathos and
knowing how to receive an emotional response from the audience strengths the writers argument.
Society is forgetting the importance of punctuation. As a rule editing or rereading should always
be done before displaying or sending any text. Repeating a simple mistake can imply that one
does not know the right way. Advertising, signs, and letters obtain grammatical and punctuation
error way too often, in the United Kingdom and in the United States. As Lynne Truss says, errors
in advertising makes the company of corporation look bad.
People, mostly adults, need to learn how to punctuate so that everyone could be on the same
level of writing with precision.
The evidence used to support the message of this book primarily include personal experience,
facts, and humor. Lynne Truss makes the presumption that British people do not know how to
punctuate, just by being on the streets in front of signs and billboards. On a different occasion
she encountered a fan that admitted to forgetting how to punctuate. The author, again, uses
humor to support her message. Giving the apostrophe human like qualities, shows the reader how
important it is. She gives it feelings and tells us that she hope we feel sorry for the apostrophe
because of the careless abuse. In addition to her humorous explanation, Truss compares the
period to a male. Males relatively have one job. The apostrophe is compared to a female because
of the multi-purposes that they both have. Even though the author takes her opinion to her
argument, she still makes a logical point. Another comparison that she makes is between the
people who catch punctuation mistakes and the boy from The Sixth Sense, that could see dead
people. This interesting comparison makes it possible to relate to what she believes. The facts
stress how important punctuation is not just to the author, but to anyone. Lynne Truss shares the
fact that commas could change the entire meaning of a sentence. Misleading the audience will
cause a confusion. The readers are introduced to real stories and situations where punctuation has
deceived writers. Queen Bess started Apostroher Royal after discovering an error in a decree.
National Unions, corporations, companies, and passport advertisements all have incorrect
punctuation and grammar. Author, Peter Carey, won the Booker Prize in 2001 for a book with no
commas. The importance of the message is noticed through these facts. Queen Bess, Peter Carey
and other well known scholars like writer, James Thurber see the importance of punctuation.
That is why they all make an effort to use it correctly. Lynne Truss draws the readers in by
supporting her point of view with facts, gaining credibility, and having experts testimony.