Answer to Question #111383 in English for Felicia Ngubandze

Question

provide a critical evaluation of people who sell diet
products focusing on the adjectives used to describe thin and fat people. Furthermore,
comment on the tone and implied meaning of the words that the sellers use to convince
people to buy such products.

Answer 1

Dietary product sellers use various words to describe fat and thin people. The fat individuals are described as unattractive, lazy, slow, and piggy among many other words in an attempt to convince them to buy diet supplements aimed at reducing their weight and become pretty, healthy, lithe and desirable. Alternately, thin people are described as skinny in the bid to persuade them to purchase diet pills that would make them attain standard weigh and become energetic, powerful, and resourceful. In essence, they use a persuasive tone that utterly depicts and links overweight to bad attributes and thin to good and fair qualities.