5.My Parents Chose my Husband

       Debie Thomas, an Indian woman who lived in the United States for a most time of her life, tells her struggles of trying to find love in a culture where arranged marriage is the only option given. The author, tells her story of "love", she starts her story with some sarcasm, saying "Seventeen years later, I’m still married to him, still grieving, and still trying to figure out why I stay.". Thomas, uses sarcasm a lot throughout her article, maybe because she is still bitter that she could not pursue the love she wanted to. More sarcasm is used when she says "He was Prospective Groom No. 3, or 7, or maybe even 12 (...)", she plays around with the fact that she had so many prospective grooms she even lost track of how many. She also uses some parallelism when she says "He disliked my seriousness. I found him shallow. He craved adventure. I craved stability. He resented routine. I thrived on it. ", because she makes a parallel between what she felt about things, and how he responded to the same things.
    Thomas, I believe, did a great job getting her point across in this article. She stated both the good points of having an arranged marriage, and the bad points. She does all of this adding some humor to it, making the informal article extremely interesting. She leaves it up to the reader to make up their mind about the whole idea of not "falling in love" or even not "choosing to love" someone, but "loving" someone your parents chose. Her point got stated really well, because she showed both sides of the story.


http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/08/arranged_marriage_in_america_my_parents_moved_here_from_india_raised_me.html