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Essay On Rhetorical Triangle

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Throughout my educational career, I was taught to be critical, but not analytical to a great extend. In high school, I was never taught to think about why an author writes the way he or she intended. Rather, I was only to focus on the analysis of the novel, itself. However, this course has extended my knowledge in that it allows me to think how and why a novel is written the way it is. I also learned that every author has their own ways of communicating to the intended audience. They do so by manipulating pathos, ethos, and logos, which is the Rhetorical Triangle. In all honesty, the controversial topic of slavery does not really interest me. The reason being that in an English class during high school, I spend most of my time reading literatures based on slavery. I thought this course was going to be similar the English class I took in the past. However, I was completely wrong about my immature intuition. To break it down, I had trouble writing Rhetorical Analysis in the beginning because I did not have any experience with connecting literature to a big idea that the author wants readers to understand. In high school, I was only taught to analyze the works of literature without connecting to the real …show more content…

According to peer editing, I was completely ignored logos and ethos. I failed to see the bigger picture of what Whitehead is actually pointing out with the protagonist. In essence, it took me a long time to realize the author wants the modern Americans to see how slaves are treated in the past using historical truth. He uses Cora to connect the relevance of an obstacle that Harriet Jacobs experienced. Jacobs was an actual slave who went into hiding, just like Cora in the novel, in order to obtain freedom. In actuality, freedom only exists as an ideology because the limitation of true freedom was due to racial application of an

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