Question 1: Scott Russell Sanders uses the appeal of logos throughout the passage, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, by appealing to logic, persuading the audience based on sense and reason. In this direct example from the text, “From the beginning, our heroes have been sailors, explorers, cowboys, prospectors, speculators, backwoods ramblers, rainbow-chasers, vagabonds of every stripe,” logos is introduced through excessive detail, giving more than plenty of examples in which we create our heroes to be free-spirits. This detail creates a sense of reason in which it’s logical to assume Americans like to move around based off the list of heroes presented. “In our national mythology, the worst fate is to be trapped on a farm, in
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In lines forty through forty-three Sanders asks “But who would pretend that a history of immigration has immunized the United States against bigotry? And even if, by uprooting ourselves, we shed our chauvinism, is that all we lose?” But he does not ask for a response, but only the further assert his claim that all the moving Americans do desensitize them from the land. Also, Sanders uses a lot of description within his writing to give support to his claim, for example “If we fish out a stream or wear out a field. or if the smoke a neighbor’s chimney begins to crowd the sky, why, off we go to a new stream, a fresh field, and clean sky.” where Sanders uses three different situations to thoroughly describe the same message. The use of description adds detail to what the author is trying to convey, description places emphasis on certain topics the author wants to focus on to support his claim. In Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, the theme is: living and settling in one place will connect one with the earth and all it’s creatures. Sanders uses this theme like a thesis throughout the passage, connecting staying in the same place with respect for the earth, and constant resettlement with abuse of the earth. Through rhetorical questions, description and theme, Sanders is able to convey his message to the audience with those rhetorical
In lines forty through forty-three Sanders asks “But who would pretend that a history of immigration has immunized the United States against bigotry? And even if, by uprooting ourselves, we shed our chauvinism, is that all we lose?” But he does not ask for a response, but only the further assert his claim that all the moving Americans do desensitize them from the land. Also, Sanders uses a lot of description within his writing to give support to his claim, for example “If we fish out a stream or wear out a field. or if the smoke a neighbor’s chimney begins to crowd the sky, why, off we go to a new stream, a fresh field, and clean sky.” where Sanders uses three different situations to thoroughly describe the same message. The use of description adds detail to what the author is trying to convey, description places emphasis on certain topics the author wants to focus on to support his claim. In Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, the theme is: living and settling in one place will connect one with the earth and all it’s creatures. Sanders uses this theme like a thesis throughout the passage, connecting staying in the same place with respect for the earth, and constant resettlement with abuse of the earth. Through rhetorical questions, description and theme, Sanders is able to convey his message to the audience with those rhetorical