Libraries In Zadie Smith's The North West London Blues

Reading is important to advancing someone’s education. Libraries are one place where people can go to do this without having to buy the books. In the article, “The North West London Blues”, the author argues the importance of libraries. Zadie Smith uses many writing elements to get her points across and strengthen her argument. The use of imagery is important in the author’s argument. One example of imagery is, “I struggle to find a seat in the packed university library…” The readers can imagine her sitting in the library. This helps connect the readers to the author because she does the same as many reading the article. The writer strengthens her argument by pulling the readers in with her experience and knowledge of libraries. In addition, there is imagery when she says, “...a hierarchy of needs…” Readers can picture the level of needs of people and how it affects their lives. She argues that libraries are significant even though many do not …show more content…
Choice of words can be powerful and persuasive. For example, “...Only a kind of obsolescence.” This word choice is an attention grabber because many people don’t know what obsolescence means. Zadie Smith uses this word to describe how many people think about libraries. She begins with this in the beginning of her paper, but then goes on to explain why they are not old-fashioned. In addition, another example is, “...a system of values beyond the fiscal.” The author is talking about values more than just government values which are not being thought about before libraries are closing. All the officials are thinking about money. The author becomes more persuasive by using higher level words to catch the audience’s attention. The argument becomes more persuasive due to the use of these words; these phrases are full of powerful emotions. People are drawn in by the emotion they hold which persuades them to pick a side of the argument being