The Giver There Rhetorical Analysis

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English Some people may have their own cultures to follow, but someday they will have an interaction with another culture to have a different experience. But as a human being we do not adapt directly with a new experience so those people that are interacting with a different culture may have problem. Those people may experience awkwardness or misunderstanding because it’s a new experience for them, they used to with their own culture so when they interact with different culture they could do something wrong without knowing it. Because of this, some people has prepared a way on how to deal with this problem and sometime their solution is asking their friends for guidance or they may find some tips or solution in the internet. But what if their interaction is sudden, of course they couldn’t prepare before the interaction, so their solution is keep quiet or just go with it or just stay polite waiting for an instruction from someone. But with this those people may learn something new, they learn a different culture having knowledge about those cultures and having new experiences. …show more content…
We see that they all suffer, the mothers and their children has a similar desperation in their lives. Some of the woman didn’t have their exact hope and dream just like Ying – Ying who murdered her own child and she was still haunted by it but she is happy that she manages to give her hope to her new daughter to giving her happiness, the same goes to An – Mei where her mother sacrifice herself to give hope to An – Mei but she also happy because she fixed her daughter marriage by giving her

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