1. What Kelso is trying to do is compare/contrast the stereotype and the reality of being a ballerina. I believe that this strategy works very well in this setting.
2. Some of the remote causes in this story are: being told by the teachers not to eat, losing valuable opportunities in the future, and the normal peer pressure.
3. I believe the main issue about ballerinas in this story is the abusive and unhealthy treatment directed towards them. This is because I believe that the emotional/physical abuse caused by the treatment will have a very long lasting and very harsh effect on these young women, which could hurt them in the future.
4. Kelso uses: weight statistics, quotes from Balanchine, Baryshinikov, and dance critics, the four paradoxes, as well as statistics about osteoporosis.
5. I believe Kelso's purpose was to show the reader what really happens on the inside to ballerinas around the world. Because of Kelso's explanation, this writing coul
2. Some of the remote causes in this story are: being told by the teachers not to eat, losing valuable opportunities in the future, and the normal peer pressure.
3. I believe the main issue about ballerinas in this story is the abusive and unhealthy treatment directed towards them. This is because I believe that the emotional/physical abuse caused by the treatment will have a very long lasting and very harsh effect on these young women, which could hurt them in the future.
4. Kelso uses: weight statistics, quotes from Balanchine, Baryshinikov, and dance critics, the four paradoxes, as well as statistics about osteoporosis.
5. I believe Kelso's purpose was to show the reader what really happens on the inside to ballerinas around the world. Because of Kelso's explanation, this writing coul
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