The religious and spiritual activist Dorothy Day had a passion for writing. She combined these passions by founding the Catholic Worker, a mixture of journalistic reports, editorials, diaries, and meditations. Day’s “Memorial Day in Chicago” was a journalistic report that is meant to persuade readers to take a stand and advocate for peace. She places guilt on the audiences as she pleads everyone to become their own activist. She accomplishes these by first asking us questions, then placing our own judgments on other countries to our own, next she moves into establishing credibility on the topic, later she shows us where people fall to place the blame, and lastly she directs her writing to Christ. Day’s persuasive essay was an overall success for her audience, but looses her message towards the end. Day opens her essay with a brief synopsis of Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, the event where police fired into a
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She writes with an unhappy and shameful tone toward her audience. She brings the tone out with using phrases like “we are all guilty,” and “we have not inclined our hearts to him…work together for peace instead of war” (Day, 239). Her language is informal as she talks to the audience using pronouns like you and we. Day’s style of writing does not feel as motivational as it should be. Day’s main objective is to get people to advocate, but her writing makes them feel like they already failed. I embark to use Dorothy Day’s “Memorial Day in Chicago” as a model for my rhetoric’s of resistance, “Support Women: Support Life.” I admired her use of religion and with my moral topic felt I could emulate her piece into one of my own. I followed her essay using the same style of writing, but apply a different tone to create a more positive and motivational appeal. I set up my essay in the same manner with relatively the same size paragraphs and the placement of the thesis sentence is similar to
She writes with an unhappy and shameful tone toward her audience. She brings the tone out with using phrases like “we are all guilty,” and “we have not inclined our hearts to him…work together for peace instead of war” (Day, 239). Her language is informal as she talks to the audience using pronouns like you and we. Day’s style of writing does not feel as motivational as it should be. Day’s main objective is to get people to advocate, but her writing makes them feel like they already failed. I embark to use Dorothy Day’s “Memorial Day in Chicago” as a model for my rhetoric’s of resistance, “Support Women: Support Life.” I admired her use of religion and with my moral topic felt I could emulate her piece into one of my own. I followed her essay using the same style of writing, but apply a different tone to create a more positive and motivational appeal. I set up my essay in the same manner with relatively the same size paragraphs and the placement of the thesis sentence is similar to