The American Dream Dead, Alive, or on Hold by Brandon King demonstrates exactly what not do in an article that's supposed to be fact based and based on if a dream is dead or still alive. In the article Brandon kings biggest argument is that the American Dream isn't dead, however that its metamorphosing into being about financial stability rather than being able to own everything one desires. The argument he delivers isn't successful in what he's trying to portray because he uses pathos, used to evoke emotion, and logos, used to persuade an audience.
Additionally two rhetorical device he uses is pathos which is used to manipulate his audience into believing what he says is correct based on their emotions, and logos to persuade based …show more content…
His first tactic is organization, which starts off by describing the state of the American Dream, where he goes on to say that Americans still believe the Dream is alive, but that there’s an economic inequality holding people back, fixing the economy, and in the last few paragraphs, he talks about people how the American Dream isn’t dead. By organizing these paragraphs in the way he does he is able to have people engaged and answers questions at the start rather than the end, such as what the American Dream is. He uses analogies by implementing more credible peoples quotes into his argument. An example of this is when he added Chapman’s quote “the Great Recession didn’t kill the American Dream. But the promise of a good life in exchange for hard, honest work has been bruised and frayed for millions of middle class Americans”(Chapman 210). This makes his argument sound more credible as an end result.Another example of this is when he brings in a quote from Reich “As long as income and wealth keep concentrating at the top, and the Great divide between Americas have-mores and have lesses continues to widen, the Great Recession won’t end, at least not in the real economy.” (Reich 2009) He is a credible person along due to the fact he is a law student at Indiana university who majored in political science. People knowing his credentials are more plausible to believe his statements because he is enlightened in the topic of politics, even if he doesn’t use statistics that often people are going to believe
Additionally two rhetorical device he uses is pathos which is used to manipulate his audience into believing what he says is correct based on their emotions, and logos to persuade based …show more content…
His first tactic is organization, which starts off by describing the state of the American Dream, where he goes on to say that Americans still believe the Dream is alive, but that there’s an economic inequality holding people back, fixing the economy, and in the last few paragraphs, he talks about people how the American Dream isn’t dead. By organizing these paragraphs in the way he does he is able to have people engaged and answers questions at the start rather than the end, such as what the American Dream is. He uses analogies by implementing more credible peoples quotes into his argument. An example of this is when he added Chapman’s quote “the Great Recession didn’t kill the American Dream. But the promise of a good life in exchange for hard, honest work has been bruised and frayed for millions of middle class Americans”(Chapman 210). This makes his argument sound more credible as an end result.Another example of this is when he brings in a quote from Reich “As long as income and wealth keep concentrating at the top, and the Great divide between Americas have-mores and have lesses continues to widen, the Great Recession won’t end, at least not in the real economy.” (Reich 2009) He is a credible person along due to the fact he is a law student at Indiana university who majored in political science. People knowing his credentials are more plausible to believe his statements because he is enlightened in the topic of politics, even if he doesn’t use statistics that often people are going to believe