During Pap’s drunken tirade, he utilizes multiple rhetorical strategies to appeal to his son and gain sympathy and support. He feels the “govment” is interfering too much in his life, and he is entitled to much more than he is given. Pap displays this through repetition and pathos. His audience and employment of pathos is centered towards Huck who is in the room observing his father’s rant.
In his rambling, Pap applies repetition to emphasize the significance of the government, and the control it has over him. Pap believes the government is “everywhere” and it is unjust in its practices. He complains, “Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment...” (34). By repeating the word “govment”, …show more content…
He is vocal with his passionate hatred for the government. Pap not only is confident that the laws are stacked against him, but that it favors the black man over him. His fervent attitude against a black man holding more education and credibility within the town over him has lead him to believe the government is making all the wrong decisions. As a white man, he despises the law siding with a black man. The majority of the South’s population held strong views like Pap, which lead to the civil war. The southerners were so adamant that what they believed was correct, that the government was wrong about slavery, that we had the most casualties within this war. This was a war that was not against another nation or country, it was fellow American brothers that were fighting against each other. The citizens at the time felt so strongly about their beliefs that they were willing to fight and kill their own over emancipation. Although the Union came victorious in revolutionizing America’s beliefs, but the struggle between equality, and superiority is still prevalent today. The country is in turmoil with this fight, we may not be south versus north but the population struggles in more ways today, it may not be gun fire at all times but, rather, hate speech and exclusion based on
In his rambling, Pap applies repetition to emphasize the significance of the government, and the control it has over him. Pap believes the government is “everywhere” and it is unjust in its practices. He complains, “Here’s a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment...” (34). By repeating the word “govment”, …show more content…
He is vocal with his passionate hatred for the government. Pap not only is confident that the laws are stacked against him, but that it favors the black man over him. His fervent attitude against a black man holding more education and credibility within the town over him has lead him to believe the government is making all the wrong decisions. As a white man, he despises the law siding with a black man. The majority of the South’s population held strong views like Pap, which lead to the civil war. The southerners were so adamant that what they believed was correct, that the government was wrong about slavery, that we had the most casualties within this war. This was a war that was not against another nation or country, it was fellow American brothers that were fighting against each other. The citizens at the time felt so strongly about their beliefs that they were willing to fight and kill their own over emancipation. Although the Union came victorious in revolutionizing America’s beliefs, but the struggle between equality, and superiority is still prevalent today. The country is in turmoil with this fight, we may not be south versus north but the population struggles in more ways today, it may not be gun fire at all times but, rather, hate speech and exclusion based on