A Finding Acceptance in Macaroni and Cheese

Perhaps it is strange to immediately have more problems with the fact that the author of Finding Acceptance in Macaroni and Cheese only eats pasta and cheese than the message she is trying to get across. Her message, to accept others regardless of their differences and flaws, is touching, but her eating habits are unhealthy and drawing my attention away from the point of her essay. The issues of her diet, the lack of protein and fiber and anything that is not a starch or dairy product, are more distracting than enforcing her thesis. Surely, I find myself thinking, surely there is a better and healthier alternative to eating macaroni and cheese year in and year out. Experiment, I think urgently at the author, you need to eat something other than two food groups. My mind should be focused on her message, on the audience she is trying to reach, on the appeals she is making to the audience and the evidence she’s giving to prove her point that differences make a person and you have to learn to get over that to accept someone, but my mind is consumed with her self-proclaimed eating disorder. Sure, this problem may be a personal affliction that no other reader suffers from while reading this essay, but this problem leaves me feeling that her true point comes abruptly out of nowhere, that the introduction and backing are irrelevant to her claim. The idea of drawing parallels between her pickiness and her family’s intolerance is interesting and, if edited to better address her point, has the potential of leaving a much better and lasting impression on the audience. A lasting impression concerned with the right thing.