What Is The Purpose Of This Rhetorical Question?

[TheSnakeman]

Can anyone help me analyse this rhetorical question:

'Their sleek bodies, their breasts and legs—all flawless. The things they did to him, and the things they made him do. Blud. Mete. You are the meat of our spirit, Erik. Feed us. They’d consumed him, hadn’t they? With their kisses and their sex?'

Also have I analyzed this passage correctly? Also how can I do it better?

'The graffiti on the toilet wall took diverse turns. “Do the Thorazine shuffle,” someone had written. “God stole my brain but He can have it,” and, “ECT, what a rush!” (this shows the horrors of the asylum such as the mental anguish of the patients)

[TheSnakeman]

Bump

[fiction-factory]

I think it shows more a sense of (black) humour?

[fiction-factory]

I'm assuming the toilet wall were in an asylum. If they were in some public toilets then I am not sure why you have mentioned asylums at all.

[Old_Geezer]

I think you should have just entered the thread title and left the rest blank.

As for analyzing passages, sorry, I don't know how to ?

[TheSnakeman]

have you tried annotating/analyzing the first quote? That was the one with the rhetorical question; the second quote with the graffiti was just a bonus one.

[TheSnakeman]

Can someone please tell me what you think the rhetoric question suggests?, it is the first quoted paragraph not the one about the graffiti.

[TheSnakeman]

???

[jno]

the second one may show the horrors but it also shows the dark humour, as OG suggests; maybe it also shows their spirits can't be crushed, but you'd have to know the whole work before you could say if that's true.