Speaker: • It is clear that Emerson is telling the story because he is talking in first person and giving the reader life advice.
• A male Ralph Waldo Emerson writes about how he is ashamed of his society and how easily people surrender to people of the higher class or power.
• One can assume the speaker’s point of view is that everyone should follow his or her own instincts and not conform to society because he states, “I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency” (Emerson 5).
Occasion: • Emerson wrote Self-Reliance because he wanted people to cherish his or her worth and ideas instead of conforming to how others think.
• Self-Reliance is part of a series of essays from 1841. The rhetorical occasion of this text is that being someone who you are not is not the way to live. **
• The larger occasion Emerson is trying to push upon the reader is to trust yourself and to live the way you want to live.
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• Looking at the date the speaker was born and when this piece was published, the reader can infer that the speaker is a 37-year-old male that is speaking out against the government that is in charge of too much, in his opinion.
• Thoreau thinks that, “That government is best which governs least” (Thoreau 1). He does not approve in how the government runs and how it does not truly help its people.
Occasion: • The author was prompted to write this as a “response to his arrest and incarceration for not paying a poll tax” (Thoreau, 1).
• This text is a critique and response to the government. *** The rhetorical occasion of this text is to expose the government and how poorly it actually works.
• *** The reason Thoreau writes this text because of his arrest, which he thought should not have happened.*
• A male Ralph Waldo Emerson writes about how he is ashamed of his society and how easily people surrender to people of the higher class or power.
• One can assume the speaker’s point of view is that everyone should follow his or her own instincts and not conform to society because he states, “I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency” (Emerson 5).
Occasion: • Emerson wrote Self-Reliance because he wanted people to cherish his or her worth and ideas instead of conforming to how others think.
• Self-Reliance is part of a series of essays from 1841. The rhetorical occasion of this text is that being someone who you are not is not the way to live. **
• The larger occasion Emerson is trying to push upon the reader is to trust yourself and to live the way you want to live.
• Reading verses written by a painter that were not original triggered …show more content…
• Looking at the date the speaker was born and when this piece was published, the reader can infer that the speaker is a 37-year-old male that is speaking out against the government that is in charge of too much, in his opinion.
• Thoreau thinks that, “That government is best which governs least” (Thoreau 1). He does not approve in how the government runs and how it does not truly help its people.
Occasion: • The author was prompted to write this as a “response to his arrest and incarceration for not paying a poll tax” (Thoreau, 1).
• This text is a critique and response to the government. *** The rhetorical occasion of this text is to expose the government and how poorly it actually works.
• *** The reason Thoreau writes this text because of his arrest, which he thought should not have happened.*