The writer of the text has a clear and very strong impression of seafood and the rest of the text are his justifications, reactions, opinions and feelings towards all things related to seafood. The writer uses many language features to better explain his hate including setting an atmosphere of disgust, first person experiences, some degree of a parody to relate his hate and something like a volta at the end to demonstrate his understanding of his unpopular opinion.
The first few words we hear from Alan Perrott is “I can’t stomach seafood.” We are not even five words in and we already have his views on seafood. He also uses strong language here when saying “…can’t…”, he doesn’t say “I try to avoid seafood.” or “I dislike seafood” its that he cannot eat it. This already gives us an atmosphere of hate. Alan goes on; “The tentacles, the whatever the hell that muck is that comes out of shells…” More strong language and emotions and we have barely finished the first sentence. This man desperately needs you to understand his opinion and disgust towards seafood.
The first person is you, experiences that you have experienced, feelings you have felt and opinions that you have formed. Alan goes deep into his traveling around town and smelling the disgusting smell; “There’s a fish market in New Market and I don’t even like driving past it unless the vents are off and the windows up.” This is about his experiences in his car and his opinion on the disgusting smell. The reader would never have been able to experience that simple thing in such a way. It adds a more personal feeling to the text.
At the end of the text there s something resembling a volta. Not in a way where he admits his love for seafood but where he admits how difficult he is making life for himself. He puts it plainly as; “But the thing is that I really wished I liked it, loved it even, because it would be so much easier…” He spends the previous 24 lines explaining his virtually allergic reaction to seafood and how disgusting it is yet he understands that it is all around him and that he expresses an uncommon and disliked opinion towards seafood. This makes you understand him a little more as a person then that mad person that he describes throughout the text.
After Alans rant / deeply personal text about his hate for seafood and his elevating language features.