Gemelie-Rose Domingo ENG 98.5502 Rhetorical Analysis Draft Outliers’ analysis Malcolm Gladwell illustrates different complex stories based upon an American misconception. Gladwell engages and persuades readers with research and real-life examples. The novel demonstrates the point for the impossibility of successful person to become an outlier by his or her own self. The author brings up uncontrollable factors, mentioning birth dates, ethnicity, culture, upbringing, and surroundings that all influence success.…
Empirical analysis of literature can be a strange denomination of fun while reading. Viewing literature for its structure and organization is the essence of what makes being a bookworm so powerful and worth the effort. The ability to surgically splice and dice novels into their core elements and placing them in an organized fashion so that they can be later compared and contrast to other similar list in an effort to claim the positive or negative notoriety of a piece of literature is hardly a ticket to the amusement park. However, despite the initial lack of positives when analyzing literature in such a way, the end result can be a satisfying nature of finding out a portion of a puzzle. This data can be collected under many titles: literary devices, media, diction, language, basically anything in the actual text is up for grabs.…
“It takes many good deed to build a respectable reputation, but only one bad deed to lose it”. Benjamin Franklin illuminates the idea of a good reputation as he emphasizes how fragile it can be, knowing that one’s reputation can be taken away from you just by committing one bad action. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor is a truthful, respectable, and a religious man who safeguards his reputation from being tarnished. He hold one secret within him which constantly haunts his every move. The adultery he committed with Abigail is a sin that leaves a weights on his back throughout the novel as it causes him to not forgive himself.…
Donald Murray meticulously developed and laid out ten writing habits he performs in order to hone in on his writing potential. After a self evaluation I came to the realization I possess similar to habits to those of Mr. Murray, but I also have my own. The habit of awareness and connecting seem to interconnect for me. The book How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster immediately came to mind. Foster discusses various interpretations of literature through quests, communion, themes, and of course symbols because “Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.”…
The Crucible Through out history, reputation is the key that leads to people’s success. People do not want their reputations get blackened; Therefore people sometimes to keep others’ secrets or to hurt some innocents to protect their own reputations. For example, in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, people blinded themselves in front of lies and injustice to protect their scarce reputations. This is best illustrated by John Proctor, judge Danforth, and Abigail William because they should sacrifice their own reputation to establish justice in salem.…
In 1847, Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre, which exemplifies how literature can convey a certain message and ignite a social reformation for women. Over 100 years later, Ralph Ellison published Invisible Man, which utilizes that same literary technique to help emphasize the societal pressures set upon blacks in American society in the 1930s and 1940s. Both literary works remain reputable novels currently as both follow a similar narrative and writing structure, utilize similar motifs, convey a certain theme, and exemplify the social unrest of the contemporary time period. Jane Eyre and Invisible Man are both “coming-of-age” novels that exemplify how adversity can lead one to search for and discover their individuality and personal identity.…
Reading opens doors to many possibilities. It allows the reader to piece together and gain understanding of their reality by applying it to thousands of years of vastly divergent topics. “ Learning to Read and Write,” by Frederick Douglass analyses how literature’s many branches of information are not always beneficial. It is not a surprise that reading provides knowledge, but it can also bring information the reader might find undesirable because it may potentially conflict with the his convictions. As a result , reading causes the reader to feel uncomfortable as he indulges in learning about polemically gruesome topics .…
America, the land known for its freedom and its classical novels. As years have come and gone, bestsellers and classics are being taken away from students in the school systems, the students have no say in the matter. Parents or the school board bring up the matter to the schools, then there are many meetings deciding whether the book should be banned or should stay. Challenging and banning books is a very popular matter now, with many eager to support, and some trying to get rid of the cause. Many parents and students question as to why books can be banned in the first place and what causes them to be taken out of so many schools.…
Stephen King writing about life through fiction King once answered, “When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'” (King). Stephen King is a known American author. King is one of America’s most intriguing authors and has written some of the most compelling novels in the 20th century.…
Agata Ilevic Dr. Elaine Cullen English C 1101 section 52 Rhetorical Analysis Rough draft Rhetorical Analysis From generation to generation technology is overtaking human qualities. New technology affects the way people approach revolutions these days. People instead of getting out on the streets and protest against unfairness in the world tweet the problem on social media. Author Malcolm Gladwell in one of his writings “ Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” effectively convinces his audience that new tools of social media are less effective than social activism in revolution through the use of historical examples supported by logical appeals.…
They say a rose by any other name is still a rose, but in 1692 Salem, people did not believe this at all. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters are ever concerned with how their reputations will be affected, more so than any other sense. Reverend Parris is concerned with how his reputation will suffer and if he will lose his job. John Proctor is concerned with his reputation and eventually dies for it.…
King might be best known for writing horror novels but On Writing is a real work of high art and transforms genre in the otherwise dreading and plethora style of writing books. Dr. Lawrence Nannery, a professor of philosophy at St. Francis College, defines high art as having a full understanding of the work “can enhance an understanding of other aspects of life as well” and “does not reveal everything it has in one exposure.” For example, in prose, writing genres work to normalize certain academic aspects and beliefs embodied within them. But these aspects are often portrayed so incorrectly that they either border on, or are completely submerged in ideology. However, King transforms this genre and doesn't reveal it so easily and freely, what he does is makes individuals understand concepts that are otherwise unattainable in an unpredictable and unorthodox manner.…
Time might not heal all wounds; but one’s careful actions might. Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, are two different pieces of writing, written centuries apart, yet have countless common themes. Both Hamlet and The Kite Runner display similarities such as, the main characters continuous lack of activity, the relationships between the father and son, and both main characters right their wrongs and take action.…
While at the trial, Scout states: “...it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.” (Chapter 19, pg 211) Is Mayella Ewell a character worthy of compassion? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the dubious character Mayella Ewell, left readers divided as to whether she was a character deserving of sympathy. Although she was despised by many due to her role in falsely accusing a black man of rape, her inconsiderate actions were justified, as they were performed based on fear.…
There are many articles and essays on Ralph Ellison 's novel Invisible Man about the narrator being invisible in society. But throughout the book it is seen that the reason he is invisible to society is because of society’s oppression of African Americans in the novel and in America. The relationship between the novel and in real life instances of oppression are tied together. With oppression there is the deal of false hope and the sense of keeping African Americans from achieving their goals. The white people in American society and even some black people being controlled by them white people are causing the main problem in Invisible Man.…