Michael Carter AP English 3 In Cold Blood Rhetorical Analysis Essay Truman Capote, in the novel, In Cold Blood, asserts that Perry’s hallucinations are a coping mechanism for himself. Capote supports his assertions by exposing the meaning behind Perry’s yellow bird, using imagery when Perry finally understands he is going to die by capital punishment, and illuminating Perry’s attitude after he reads the letter from his father. The author’s purpose is to point out Perry’s sanity behind his psychotic episodes in order to explain the inner-workings of the mind of the killer. The author writes in an ambiguous tone for the educated readers so that is keeps the readers in suspense even though they know the outcome. Perry thru out the novel had this recurring dream about a yellow bird.
In this selection from the autobiography of Malcolm X titled “My First Conk”, readers will find out about Malcolm X's first real step towards what he calls “self-degradation”. Although there is no exact thesis stated in the excerpt there are still clear points stated throughout the reading. When Malcolm X wrote this piece the idea was to show the reader how society can make one feel like they must change to be considered better than who and what an individual really is. It is also expressed that one's individuality can be taken away and the negative outcomes one can struggle with after that change. It is described that society can be a truly horrifying thing and the ways men and women try to fit in can be both shameful in the long
Wright demonstrated the use of this method at the end of his/her letter, as a way to conclude the argument. The choice given to the reader is, “…either we demand the death penalty for convicted murderers or we’ll never feel safe in our homes and on our streets. No one wants to live in fear, so it’s obvious that we need to bring back the death penalty!” By just presenting these two conclusions to the reader, it only allows them to imagine the two extreme possibilities. It is clear that there are more possibilities regarding the situation that the author is presenting – for example, criminals are kept in prison to allow people to feel safe in their homes, the death penalty is not the only option –; however, by him/her only pointing out those two outcomes it makes the reader more alarmed and willing to side with the authors
James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, the authors of “After the Fact - The Art of Historical Detection, Volume 1 Sixth Edition” used “The Strange Death of Silas Deane” as the prologue to their book. Through this reading the authors demonstrate how the everyday view of history as “history is what happened in the past” can be profoundly misleading by going into a detailed examination of an event that “happened in the past” – the death of Silas Deane. The authors feel that the story of Silas Deane’s death is an excellent example to illustrate the difference between “what happened in the past” and what history really is since the event cannot be fully understood by merely transporting facts from the past, courier-like (without distorting or forcing new perspectives on them), to the present. In the first section of the story- An Untimely Death, the authors describe Silas Deane’s background and key events throughout his life at seem relevant to his death. Deane was born in Groton, Connecticut.
Feed, a dystopian novel written by M.T. Anderson is based on information technology and data mining in a failing futuristic society. The novel describes Titus and his friends living their lives by suggestions, such as advertisements, from the feed, as well as the knowledge that the feed not only provides them with information instantly, but manipulates their decision making. The dialogue in this novel is distinguished because Anderson has the ability to draw in readers with quick dialogue, unique slang, curse words and grammatically incorrect language. However, this reflects the way the feed has degraded the vocabulary and intelligence of those who have it.
Journal 03: America Tony Hoagland’s poem “America” uses specific nouns and metaphors to tell readers that America is too obsessed with material objects and self-satisfaction. Hoagland uses these nouns and metaphors to hide truth from the naked eye, specific diction is also used in combination with these metaphors to expose corruption in American society. In the opening lines, Hoagland writes, “Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud / Says that America is for him a maximum-security prison / Whose walls are made of Radio Shacks, Burger Kings, and MTV episodes.” Hoagland almost lists the details of American trends by mentioning hair color and piercings, and by describing businesses like Radio Shack which sell 70-inch flat screen televisions, which are completely unnecessary, and fast food restaurants like McDonald’s that give super-sized food portions. These allow readers to immediately see the ridiculous
Controller Mustapha Mond subscribes to the view that families cause “madness and suicide” (52) which was introduced by the Ford. “Our Ford – our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters – Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life.” (52) Classical conditioning still exists to this day, as you can see with the examples I have used in the previous paragraphs. It does not have to be technical; it is something that is naturally fitted in our daily lives. Some people, though, do take advantage of it: like the Director, and Mustapha Mond. They use it to basically mind control these “infants” into believing ridiculous things.
In the paper Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era, the author Richard Restak describes the potential health hazards that developing technology and the advancement of modernity in our society today has on human brains. Restak focuses only on the negative aspects of new technology and he even touches upon some of his own negative experiences. He discusses crawlers that were originally created as an early storm warning system that showed up on the top of television screens, which have now developed into something, “ubiquitous, forcing an ongoing split in our attention and a constant state of distraction” (Restak 411). While watching an interview with the First Lady Restak found himself focusing more on the crawlers that were discussing
Analysis of “Bring Back Flogging” by Jeff Jacoby In his article, "Bring Back Flogging," columnist Jeff Jacoby tries to tell us about the deficiency of today's criminal justice system and to persuade us to bring back flogging as a punishment for certain crimes. His title clearly and directly states his thesis. Techniques such as evidence and assumptions are used in this essay to persuade readers. However it cannot persuade me to support his proposition. "Bring Back Flogging" was published on February 20, in 1997 in the Boston Globe.
The Stranger: Tone In Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger, various rhetorical strategies are employed to more effectively enhance the novel. The main attitude the novel emits, the tone, dictates the way the piece is perceived by readers. The apathetic attitude radiating from the protagonist of the novel, Meursault, derives from the existentialist philosophy. This philosophy heavily focuses on indifference, detachment, and the irrationality of the universe. A sense of detachment is detected immediately at the start of the novel, when Meursault first hears word of his mother’s death.