Rhetorical Analysis: Comparing Humans To Lower Animals

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“This is a beautiful example of the reality that conscious, awake and aware humans have always been here.” (Gardner) Mark Twain has placed everything very straight forward and clear way about what humans do to other humans. I think the major idea in this piece was telling people how these so-called lower animals can leave together when they are totally different species, but humans being the same species can not leave together or to help each other out just for the sake of doing it. Mark Twain uses a lot of rhetorical situations to compare humans to lower animals. First Mark Twain uses the experiment of placing one anaconda, seven calves in cage and seeing what they do. The anaconda only crushed one of the for its needs and left the other

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