'Rhetorical Analysis Of Great God' By Elizabeth Weil

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The general argument made by Elizabeth Weil in her work “The Woman who walked 10,000 miles” is that Sarah Marquis a 42 years old women, exposed herself to a hazardous trip to discover whether she could survive by herself in nature. More Specifically, Weil argues that Sarah Marquis abandoned the commodities and pleasures of her house to go after an unknown answer. Weil writes “Along the way, like Scott, she has frozen, she has (wo)man-hauled. She has pushed herself at great physical cost places she wanted to love but ended up feeling, as Scott wrote of the South Pole in his journal: “Great God! This is an awful place” In this passage Weil compared Sarah Marquis with Robert Scott, mentioned in the introduction of the article, in order to establish
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