Jackie Robinson Biography Analysis

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Sheldon Johnson Mrs. Linc English B7 20 January 2012 Baseball, the popular and highly acclaimed American game, is one of the many sports that currently fosters the advancement and development of various ethic cultures within its gameplay; generally, common team rosters feature African-American, Japanese, Caucasian, and Hispanic players. Although, date back to the post-World War II era and one may observe that such diversity was hardly permitted, with the game spotlighting the Caucasian players. With racial barrier for sports, and life in general, stronger than ever, primarily for those of African-American descent, it would take an individual who was talented on and off the field of play to break through and surpass this racial obstacle. Jackie Robinson: Baseball Great, authored by Nathan Huggins, features this gifted individual known as Jack (“Jackie”) Roosevelt Robinson. Throughout the biography, Huggins uses a variety a rhetorical terms to depict the lifestyle and numerous hardships Robinson faced throughout his life trek of becoming the first African-American player in a predominantly all-white league. Examples of the various terms Huggins used consist of: logical appeal or logos, pacing, and diction. It is through the use of terms such as these that Huggins effectively conveys the life story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson to the audience. Logos or logical appeal is the “process of reasoning” in which the authors attempt to persuade the audience based on statistics, facts, and reasons. In Jackie Robinson: Baseball Great, Huggins consistently focuses on the logical appeal of the biography filling the reader with factual details and actualities, ignoring his own ethical appeal, thus giving the biography an unbiased point-of-view. Rather than stating that Robinson was an adept athlete and leaving the terms at that, Huggins insures this statement by labeling the

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