Rhetorical Analysis On Fast Food

Generative Writing

After came to the United States alone, foods became the most important and common thing here that connect me with my home. I am so glad that I came to a school that has the number one dining in the whole country, which more importantly, the school supplies Chinese style foods. In my passage, I want to convey the idea that how Chinese style food important to me, because when I eat them, I feel like home. The idea was inspired by a chef lady in Franklin Dining Common, who was speaking Chinese to me when I ordering some Chinese style fried rice one day. She was asking whether I want more spicy sauce, and then ask me is the amount of rice enough, and in the last she wish me to have a great meal, in a mother-like tone. I was suddenly moved by that, and not only because of …show more content…
In his passage, he uses rhetoric to convey how food related to one’s personality, which he uses a quote from Michael Gillette that states food are “means of self-definition". He also wrote her mother’s story with food, which mentioned from a recipe to her mother’s whole life. We can clearly find his attachment to his mother on the foods. However, after illustrating how foods(cooking foods) changed her mother’s life, he begins to write how food(cooking, eating and being a food critic) changed his life. Also he write a lot about his ideas on foods, the changes of how people define foods, and other concepts of foods in modern society in the passage, he finally comes back to family, back to the very first of the passage- foods and his mother, in the e last paragraph: “cooking is will remind me of my mother, it always does.” All in all, Lanchester writes a lot about food, uses lots of rhetorical examples, the overall idea he is trying to presents his attachment of his mother on foods. In this way, I can use it as a perfect example for my story, to spread out the contexts and than narrow it