Summary Of The Rhetorical Situation

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Analysing the Rhetorical situation

Purpose:

•To express how different the education system was back then. Not a lot of opportunities. Teachers did not motivate students and were not engaged with the class.

•This idea/concept is important because education is essential for progress and a better life.

•The audience should care because this is a theme that is toward teachers, students, etc. and form one or another way education is a basic thing everyone should have and this theme can make people change their mind in how to see the world.

•As a result of their audience reading the text, she wanted to motivates the readers since the majority of them are teacher, students. Moreover; people by reading can change and put more effort to
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•This cvey to the audience because it encourage people to follow want they want.

Context:

•The context can help people to understand the meaning of an specific object, people who use context can have a better comprehension about a reading. Particularly, in Bell Hooks's book the people that started to talk about the issues she was exposing in it were people related in the education field such as teacher, staffs, students, etc.

•When the author was writing the book, the English department at Oberlin College was going to make the decision if she was going to granted tenure or not.

• Probably, she decide to write this book because she wanted to show everyone how education has changed through the time.

•It is important to address this issue now because by making a comparison people can see all the opportunities education offer at this moment because many people worked hard to make this possible, and the reason is that some students do not see this and they do not take education seriously.

•Hook’s ethnicity and culture had a great influence in the written because without it she would not live all those experiences some goods and other bad ones,

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