Susan Cain's Quiet Rhetorical Analysis

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Silent Domination
Society is one of the most disastrous things man has ever created. It is as if its people were divided into four nations in an Avatar-esque fashion: fire, air, earth, and water. However, these elements correspond to what is the “north and south of temperament” or generally, the extrovert-introvert spectrum. Like the fire nation plans to take over the world in Aang’s epic journey, the “widely accepted”, emphasis on the quotation marks, Extrovert ideal also continues to increase its magnitude of importance. So, this makes the others to either hide from the clutches of a judgmental world, or force themselves to be the people they are not.
In Susan Cain’s Quiet, she explored that there are other sublevels of the introvert-extrovert
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I then shook his hand, thanking him of being able give me time to know more about him. We then parted ways, wherein after a few moments after Kyle left, I had some internal reflection, thinking about what had transpired in the interview. Hmmm. Maybe the school atmosphere isn’t so bad, even for introverts as brilliant and at the same time as not-so-outgoing as Kyle Dulay. Maybe, we are already in the point where the four nations are at the verge of being at peace. And maybe a little bit of tweaking, to mirror this community that values all kinds of personality, is what is necessary as we continue to remove that disaster-labelled society into something even better. We can be experiencing another breakthrough, by the likes of those other brilliant introverts Albert Einstein and Dr. Seuss, from Kyle Dulay: a silent but definitely one of the most intellectually gifted person I know at his age. With his exponential improvement in the field of mathematics, I’m calling it: either Dulay’s theorem would be a thing in twenty years, or he would be the one proving the twin prime conjecture for a million dollars. Talk about silent

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