Abusive College Rhetorical Analysis

Today 's college tuition seems expensive when compared to yesterday’s which is scary for young adults to pursue their college dreams in coming future. The video, “Expensive college” filmed by Khada Dulal evokes a brief story on how low fund is affecting many students from going to colleges. The author begins his personal story with the excitement for high school graduation, but later his excitement turns to be emotional in the middle of the video because of the high tuition rates for college that he couldn’t afford and at the same time his responsibilities increases to support for his family because of his parents’ sickness. He ends the video by choosing the different career path that helped him to pursue his college dreams after listening to veteran officer’s advice of joining the military. Throughout the video his use of rhetorical devices such as pathos to support his family and funding for his college, and his use of ethos as his parents and veteran officers to convey his argument on difficulties he faced going to the university and supporting his family. …show more content…
He expresses the feelings of his mother to show how she felt devastated to hear that the author was leaving home to go to the Army training to support the family and his education. As it was very difficult for author’s mother to hear the news of his departure towards the training, it was equally difficult for the author himself, “This moment to tell her that I was leaving home to go to the training was very tough for me and indeed the tears in her eyes revealed how she felt upon hearing about the decision I made...heading towards different career path because of the financial situation that occurred at home”. The decision that the author made to join the military was to support his own parents, however his mother was shocked to hear that because she had never expected from author to go to the army