Adam Davis Community Service Analysis

The text that is being used in this essay uses a narrative text type which is his personal experience. The purpose of narrative text is to entertain, to gain and hold the reader's interest. Adam Davis is the editor with Elizabeth lynn, of the Civically Engaged Reader. This essay is for the students, adults, and anyone who serves or has been served in community service, and for people who are religious that go help people It is also intended to inform people who don’t volunteer what others go through. It is intended to them because this article is mainly about why people serve, and why service is good. Have ever spared some time for someone less fortunate than you? Or have you help someone just so you can feel good well In what we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about service a essay by Adam davis directs justice talking. The main point the author wanted wanted convey to the audience that service is always good or bad depending on your reasoning and motives behind it. This explains how doing service is always a good thing depending on …show more content…
In pg(149) the author said, “ The devout might say that we serve because we love god.” This shows one of the reasons why people serve and that is because they are religious, so they do service so they feel like god loves them more in his eyes. Another quote on pg(151) the author also said, “Service, to repeat, might be good for the server, good for the served, good for all of us, good for god, or objectively good.” This is saying that service is good for everyone and why people keep doing it because it makes them feel good. This is part of the toulminian model because he is still using facts, and for this example he uses religion to show why people do service. Also because it goes well with the main idea because it explained why people do service and in this example the people do service because in the eyes of god it is a good