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Daniel Kim English 101 Prof. Buscemi Essay #3 Rough Draft An essay is a creative written piece in which the author uses different styles such as diction, tone, pathos, ethos or logos to communicate a message to the reader using either a personal experience, filled with morals and parables, or a informative text filled with educational terms. Educational terms could mean the usage of complicated and elevated words or simply information you would get in schools. Some authors, such as Cynthia Ozick, claim that an essay has no educational, polemical, or socio-political use. Others, such as Kathleen Norris, contend that an essay is like story-telling, and that the writer attempts to breathe life into the words on a page. â€Å"Breathing†¦show more content†¦Not only Leach’s essay proves that an essay can be educational, but Michael Lewis’ essay â€Å"The Mansion† also proves that an essay can do the job. In the essay, Lewis talks about his personal experience where he goes from a middle class man living in Califor nia to a extreme wealthy man living in a mansion in New Orleans. He describes his experience of renting a mansion, and noticing the tendency of human beings to always want things that they don’t actually need. He describes a moment when he entered the master-bedroom and found a closet which was the size of the master bedroom they’d left behind in California, and inside this closet he found another secret door, which led him to another closet. Even though he had enough clothes, the extra empty room made him think that maybe, he needed more clothes. In this essay, Michael Lewis gives a moral and educational lesson to the reader. His message is that humans have unlimited wants and they own things that they don’t even need. 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