Fitting in is not the easiest thing to do. I went to a predominantly African American middle school in a predominantly African American community. I assumed all schools curriculum were the same but I was wrong. My mom moved us to a community across town that had more Caucasians than African Americans and I had to then transfer schools. At my former school I was a top notch student academically and was sure to carry that reputation with me. That was not the case. I struggled in the new classes because what was being taught was somewhat foreign to my previous knowledge. My grades showed this and my teacher got concerned. She felt I was lacking the knowledge of most children my age but in fact I was just taught different things in different ways.
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Afather confronts his son’s teacher about labeling his son a ‘slow learner” without understanding his son’s previous way of life. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos, pathos, ethos, rhetorical tropes, and schemes to argue that his son is not a slow leaner but a culturally different child. The audience addressed by the Indian father is specifically one person, the teacher. This can be seen due to the start of the essay with “Dear teacher,” which tells the reader it is a letter written to and for the teacher of his son. In Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” the father also talks about incorporating his son’s heritage into the curriculum which might interest a secondary audience, the board of the education system. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos: inductive reasoning, to compare his son’s education thus far to that of other children in western society. The Indian father tells the teacher of his son’s experiences leading up to the age of five; this gives the reader logic behind why the father feels his son is not a “slow learner.” The father divulges to the teacher his son’s first introduction into the world in a traditional native childbirth ceremony. “At his first introduction into this world, he was bonded to his mother and to the Mother Earth in a traditional native childbirth ceremony.” This example supports the argument because it backs up the claim of …show more content…
“He is not culturally “disadvantage,” but is culturally “different.” This antithesis strongly supports the Indian father’s claim that his son is not a “slow learner” by breaking down the fact that his son is merely culturally different. The anaphora that supports this claim is “He is not fluent yet because he is only 5 years old and required by law to attend your educational system, learn your language, your values, your ways of thinking, and your , methods of teaching and learning.” This explains how his son is being brought into a new way of life and therefore should not be so quickly labeled a “slow leaner.”
Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” uses logos, pathos, ethos, rhetorical tropes and schemes to successfully support his argument of the difficulty of being culturally different and not disadvantage. His usage of literary tools persuades readers that his son is in fact a culturally different child that needs time to cope with a dramatic change in lifestyle. By my personal experience of having a dramatic lifestyle change when I moved to a new community I agree with the argument. I was only culturally different and not
Afather confronts his son’s teacher about labeling his son a ‘slow learner” without understanding his son’s previous way of life. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos, pathos, ethos, rhetorical tropes, and schemes to argue that his son is not a slow leaner but a culturally different child. The audience addressed by the Indian father is specifically one person, the teacher. This can be seen due to the start of the essay with “Dear teacher,” which tells the reader it is a letter written to and for the teacher of his son. In Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” the father also talks about incorporating his son’s heritage into the curriculum which might interest a secondary audience, the board of the education system. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos: inductive reasoning, to compare his son’s education thus far to that of other children in western society. The Indian father tells the teacher of his son’s experiences leading up to the age of five; this gives the reader logic behind why the father feels his son is not a “slow learner.” The father divulges to the teacher his son’s first introduction into the world in a traditional native childbirth ceremony. “At his first introduction into this world, he was bonded to his mother and to the Mother Earth in a traditional native childbirth ceremony.” This example supports the argument because it backs up the claim of …show more content…
“He is not culturally “disadvantage,” but is culturally “different.” This antithesis strongly supports the Indian father’s claim that his son is not a “slow learner” by breaking down the fact that his son is merely culturally different. The anaphora that supports this claim is “He is not fluent yet because he is only 5 years old and required by law to attend your educational system, learn your language, your values, your ways of thinking, and your , methods of teaching and learning.” This explains how his son is being brought into a new way of life and therefore should not be so quickly labeled a “slow leaner.”
Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” uses logos, pathos, ethos, rhetorical tropes and schemes to successfully support his argument of the difficulty of being culturally different and not disadvantage. His usage of literary tools persuades readers that his son is in fact a culturally different child that needs time to cope with a dramatic change in lifestyle. By my personal experience of having a dramatic lifestyle change when I moved to a new community I agree with the argument. I was only culturally different and not