Rhetorical Analysis Of Evan Osnos '

When you travel to another country you are usually subject to touring the foreign land from a particular point of view. The world is made up of a thousand voices all trying to melt together to find an accurate description of their respective homes and tourists’ getaways. While there are people who can argue with tourists back and forth about how their country is not what they think it is, you have people who go and travel to another country and write about the same place in another point of view. That’s what Evan Osnos, an American teacher who teaches in China did. He traveled with of group of Chinese tourists, after acclimating to the Chinese Culture, to Europe in order to try and form another view of a foreigners’ destination.
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His uses of playing off what we know and making it relatable to what he experienced help him explain the idea of multiple single stories in different points of view. I thought his argument was good but what really sold me was the shock that he used stereotypes that are forbidden to help us understand his point. All in all he used pathos logos and ethos all very well. Evan Osnos wrote a story about his travels to Europe with the Chinese tourists to experience it from a different view. He Flew from China all the way to Frankfurt, Germany where he met his group’s tour guide, Li Xingshun, who introduced Osnos to the rest of the group. He writes, “Li introduced me, the lone non-Chinese member of the group, and everyone offered a heavy welcome. Ten-year-old Liu Fiyen, who had a bowl cut and wore a black sweatshirt covered in white stars, smiled up at me and asked, ‘Do all foreigners have noses that big?’” (2). Here, Osnos is trying to show that this child and probably other Chinese people are also subject to single stories. Although at …show more content…
This challenges the opposite single story by opening our eyes to the fact we misjudged the Chinese tourism as a numerical driven idea when it’s really because they can afford it by going in numbers. The primarily pathos driven undertones in this quote are relatable to most people because we all know what it’s like to be judged from the outside and without any sort of knowledge as to why we are that way. It made me think back to why people thought I was just loud and obnoxious because I could when it was because I wasn’t allowed to show emotions at home. I feel that he searched for my heart strings and found where I was most sensitive and exploited it to be more effective in helping me trust him. He made me believe him though his play of emotions to establish his credibility or