Rhetorical Analysis Of Hope For Animals And Their World By Jane Goodall

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In the essay “Hope for Animals and Their World,” Jane Goodall attempts to persuade us about the importance of insects being part of the ecosystem. This essay proves the fact that insects and nature benefit us in several ways, such as helping crops grow, limiting the population of other bugs, and much more. However, we hardly return anything that benefits the ecosystem but instead, harms it. Goodall is capable of portraying this message through her ardent tone, as she is passionate towards insects and nature overall. Her use of diction, more specifically her formal writing, allows her to sound more professional and believable to her audience.

Goodall utilizes several examples of the way humans harm and affect nature, such as overreacting when

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