Dissoi Logoi contains opposing arguments that can be argued either way. Its relevance to Rhetoric is that it allows us as readers to see that no argument can be made both bad and good, just and unjust, seemly and shameless. In our own minds we know right versus wrong, but not everyone has the same vision of what is right and what is wrong. What is wrong to one can be right to another and vice versa which appeals to the logos aspect of rhetoric. These notion of contradiction within this writing are rhetoric.
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
By how the story was interpreted, it is clear how the authors came to their respective conclusions. Julius Lester has never read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This is important because he makes arguments with direct quotes taken from the book. While his underlying motivation is a just one, his arguments are ill informed, and his article reflects his little
Similarly, information that is heard repeatedly is sometimes believed to be truth. Knowledge gained by tenacity is things that people consider to be the truth regardless of compelling evidence to the contrary (Jackson, 2009). Rational knowledge is gained when people use logical reasoning to arrive at truth (Jackson, 2009). Logically sound ideas are applied in a precise manner, but ideas that are logically sound are not necessarily accurate. Rational knowledge is often derived from syllogisms.
To begin with; this chapter is a complete contrast compared to all of the other chapters, simply because the narrator who is telling the story has completely changed, without notice but you can almost definitely see the change. Hosseini tells the story in such a way is that we see the past in his speech. We can see first-hand how Rahim Khan found the events but also we learn more about Hassan and his family. Hosseini writes like this because he gives another narrative point of view for the reader to hear from. In this chapter we can gather that Rahim is a wise, old fashioned man; which greatly contrasts almost all of Amir’s previous chapters.
All of these phrases illustrate Nick being unsure, which makes him a non omniscient narrator. Nick knows nothing more than we do in this novel, if not less. We cannot take what Nick says to be literal due to his indecrepancies as a narrator. He is not credible and since there are moments in the novel where Nick cannot be seen as credible, it makes the whole novel questionable because if he lies and alters his perception at certain moment, what’s to say he’s not that way all along. Nick sees Gatsby as a wonderful man who can do no wrong in his eyes.
Though Capote’s method of data gathering is questionable at best (authorial assertion comprises the sole proof of Capote’s fantastic memory that captures everything in an interview without a tape recorder), and the fact that a lot of his research was passed from witnesses to Harper Lee to the her notes and finally to Capote and his interpretation of these notes, it would still be inappropriate and unfounded to label his book a pure fiction; instead, we should modify his statement to say that everything in the book is factual to him. If anyone else had written the book, even using the same research and evidence that Capote used, the novel would read quite differently; the book as Perry’s personal memoir would also change it drastically; a first-person account of the effects of the murder on Holcomb by a member of the community would also have a different message. Yet all of these books, if executed properly, would be truthful: they all would just contain different truths, or different interpretations of the truth. Whether or not In Cold Blood is as factual as it contends to be, then, is an issue muddled by varying definitions of truth. The problem lies in a definition of
Write about the ways the story is told in Chapter 5. Chapter 5 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ creates a contrasting tone to what has previously occurred in the novel. Fitzgerald generally creates a surreal atmosphere in order to control the manner in which many readers approach the events within the novel. Fitzgerald’s use of first person narrative enforces a judgemental perspective upon the reader, although Nick Carraway appears to set aside all opinions and therefore simply overlook the action-taking place. This is structurally emphasized by the layout of the novel on the page.
He uses numerous words to express ideas and emotions instead of quickly being straight forward and conclusive. He uses diction in almost every sentence to boost our intellect; make it seem more real. In the passage Hawthorne writes “Although she hid the secret from herself, and grew pale whenever it struggled out of her heart, like a serpent from its hole,” instead of simply writing a conclusive passage such as “She hid the secret from her mind and grew sick to herself whenever she thought of her committed sin.” Hawthorne also uses devices such as syntax in his writing of The Scarlet Letter; his sentence structure is often very weighty. Hawthorne’s paragraph includes one-two drawn out sentences. With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester.
The United States and the U.N. tried their best in the Korean War but it still ended in a stalemate (History Learning Site 1). The U.S. did not get the chance to redeem them for a long time either due to a drawn out tie in America’s next war. This next war was mainly split up into three parts. The first part was the pre-war. This first part of the Vietnam War lasted from about 1954 all the way until all the way until the early 1960’s which is when the full all out war decides to happen.