It's Time To Say Goodbye To Books Analysis

In the article “It’s Time To Say Goodbye to Books,” by Tony Gates, the author persuades the audience how books printed on paper are no longer socially responsible. To develop his argument, the author uses a delayed thesis and literary allusion. He includes these rhetorical devices in order to show the audience how books are not as socially responsible as it was in the past. Throughout the entire article, the author explains how the argument about books is not always better than electronic books. He stretches his examples and thoughts until the seventh paragraph, where Gates finally presents his thesis to the audience. In the seventh paragraph, after talking about how books and e-books are different in many ways, the author states, “printed books are increasingly irresponsible in a time when we need to be better environmental stewards.” The use of a delayed thesis in the article is to get the audience’s attention. The audience would not really know what Gates is talking about until he states his thesis to them. In the beginning …show more content…
To explain to the audience how important books is to read, the author quotes a sentence from the book The Great Gatsby, which the book states “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Gates includes the quote from Gatsby to give the audience an example of what a book gives to the author. It does not give out the scent of paper, but it gives the memories of different scenes that happened inside the book. The use of the literary allusion is to give the audience a clue to what Gates wants to talk about in the article. With the quote from a book, it strengthens Gate’s logos because it gives the audience some clue that Gates does not fully agree that books should be cherished. In Gates’ opinion, a book is suppose to give the readers memories of the scenes and not the smell of the paper or the