In Chapter 1, the narrator questions how rhetoric could be an alternative in everyday life. Professor Wayne Booth once said, "The only real alternative to war is rhetoric". How could rhetoric be a solution to war, when the solution to war is usually compromise and negotiation? Without persuasion speech you couldn't achieve either of these. Other than writing rhetorically you have to think rhetorically, rhetorical thinking starts with being a good listener. The author states that best way to have a conversation is to listen carefully and consider where there perspective is coming from. Rhetorical thinking requires you to do some homework, to find out everything that is said about the topic, you need to analyze and synthesize information into
