Rhetoric In The Jungle

In “What is Rhetoric?” the author says, “ how one says something conveys meaning as much as what one says.” What is Rhetoric? Rhetoric is the art of how the speaker or writer reveal a message to their audience. Authors may use resources to support the intended outcome on the audience feeling on their opinion. It is very important to include rhetoric in your speaking or writing, because it enhances your topic and captures your intended audience interest. Basically authors use rhetoric for the persuasive use for the audience to examine his/her concern. Carrie Chapman Catt,”Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage,” “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, and “What is Rhetoric?” are examples of well used rhetoric to strengthen their claim and arrange …show more content…
In Catt’s, “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage” she essentially wants her audience to know that women deserve the right to vote. In doing so Catt used numerous rhetorical devices to support her claim, while “The Jungle” only uses a few. In “The Jungle” Sinclair discuss how this emigrant family worked under terrible conditions just because they needed to provide for their family. The tone of “The Jungle” was very sad and dismal. And the tone of Catt’s, “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage” mood was very informative and passionate. Sinclair and Catt instituted the accurate tone for their intended audience to support their …show more content…
But Sinclair mastered in setting the tone in her passage by using pathos. The text states “ They could not even cry out beneath it; but anguish would seize them, more dreadful than the agony of death. It was a thingy scarcely to be spoken- a thing never spoken by all the world, that will not know its own defeat.” Sinclair explains that their work environment and life environment was so horrific that they could not even cry, they were living zombies. Sinclair also did a superb in explaining the work environment. The text states, “There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about it. It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.” She also states, “He was working in the steaming pit of hell; day after day, week after week.” The imagery here is perfect it is just the certainty that the audience only feel one type of way after reading, “The Jungle.” The audience only felt condolence toward the family, that is why I conclude that Catt’s “Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage” was more effective because Sinclair only made me feel sad whereas Catt made me think, and feel