In both audio essays by Joshua Wheeler and Rachel Yoder in The Missouri Review, they stress key words in order to get their message across.  They also, use many other techniques like pausing, but the phrases that drew my attention the most were the words expressed that could not be ignored.  When Wheeler discusses his experience with his suicidal sister, he recalls how dark his sister’s eyes were from sobbing (6:23).  This short and simple sentence goes deep in expressing just how miserable his sister really was.  These were no crocodile tears, they were real, real signs of pain and grief. Initially, he does not tell us directly that she is killing herself but gives us several clues.   When he states, “Dad was carrying around the Vicodin bottle,” it becomes clear what his sister’s intention were (7:58).  In the beginning he makes several references to the church but he does not tell us the whole story until the end.  This kept my attention and made me want to know more.  Wheeler says phrases like, “Hot hands of sinners, sinners, sinners (2:16).  I am not sure if he is referring to suicide or to life in general, that can sometimes put people over the edge.   These are the bad things that happen to us, that some people can not recover from, and then decide to take the only way out they see as possible, suicide.  Yoder also throws out some shocking terms that make you want to listen. For example, when she talks about the kids in her school that had coon hunting permits,  this did not need to be repeated because of the shock value in her statement (5:30).  The thought of young kids running around with shotguns for the sole purpose of killing Black people was a shocker to say the least.  She also used little phrases like  ‘a two stop light town,’ that drew my attention, mostly because I’m from a two light town (1:20).  That fact that two towns could be so similar but be so much unlike each other, fascinated me.  My town was and still is opened minded when it comes to diversity.  The fact that Yoder rebels from the bigotry in her town is an inspiration.