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Rhetorical Devices In Flavio's Home

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Poverty is a transmittable disease; it begins with parents and spreads to children and the people around them. It could obliterate a flawless society and affect everyone and everything around it. It is akin to a genetic code that is pre-written and out of human control. Everywhere people look, children can be seen with bones protruding out of their flesh, yet these children are the most hard-working beings alive. Poverty is a global issue that every member of humanity has dealt with at some point in time, and it is more likely that someone will help another in need after being helped themselves. “Flavio’s Home,” is intended for the general public and primarily fixates on a poverty-stricken family who resides on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This piece is from Voices in Mirror, an autobiography written in 1990 by an African American photographer working for Life magazine named Gordon Parks. It provides insight into a world filled with underprivileged individuals and families who welcome the idea of death, but not the lack of security …show more content…

He adequately clarifies the message behind poverty by prosperously using pathos. The techniques that he uses to describe Flavio allows the readers to radiate sympathy and compassion, as well as his profound use of imagery which compels the reader to indulge and sink into their creative and imaginative side. For instance, as Parks and his team enter Flavio’s home, a shack with a rusted tin roof, the only furniture spotted was “a sagging bed and a broken baby’s crib” (Parks 2). By incorporating imagery, Parks draws a painting of Flavio’s home in the reader’s mind, allowing the readers to appreciate the small things in life. Moreover, due to the fact that Parks was once living in poverty, he is able to convince the readers, by using ethos, that poverty is a very complex

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