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Something Instead Of Nothing Rhetorical Analysis

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In “Something Instead of Nothing”, Klosterman quests what motivations make people to talk, specifically in a formal interview setting. Some parts of the book write about the famous interviewers to gather their thoughts on the art of the interview. Errol Morris says, “I don’t think we have any idea who we are. I think we’re engaged in a constant battle to figure out who we are.”(Klosterman) From her answer, I think is about determining ourselves. But it’s also about representing the desired image. As Klosterman writes, “If you make a mistake while being interviewed — if you admit something you’d prefer to keep secret, or if you flippantly answer a legitimately serious question, or if you thoughtlessly disparage a peer you barely know, or if …show more content…

But why do we talk? First, I think we talked because we need to explain, we need to answer, and we need to let people know what we think about. When we make mistakes and we did not explain to people, then people will think about you in their ways. If we did not talk and say it loud to let people know, no one will know what you think about, how much sorry you want to say, and also how much grievance you have. Therefore people will misunderstand each other. At the end, people will think everyone is a bad person, also lead to this world become very darkness and evil. Second, I think we talk not only to get to know each other, also have a chance to know ourselves. While we talking to other people, we can know the person from their words because people always add their own thoughts in their conversation unconsciously. Sometimes we are not what we think we are. So we can know what they think about us from their conversation. We can keep our advantage and get rid of our disadvantage to become the perfect person. Third, I think we talk because to communicate. Communicating is very important in our life. It means that people can express their own needs and concerns. We also can learn from the lessons we have learned and be a more effective communicator right out of the gate. If happen anything, people know how to calm down and communicate to each other. At that point this world will be more peace, everyone can be

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