The Grapes Of Wrath Rhetorical Analysis

Morals have long been considered to be the basis and reasoning behind all actions and decisions people make every day. Whether it is simply to decide what to eat for lunch, or where to go next in life, all of these decisions are based on well-defined morals. But in many cases, the morals of others inadvertently ignore those that are wronged and forgotten. Rather than being able to control their own lives, these victims are unwantedly forced into bad situations. In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family loses everything they have during the Dust Bowl and is forced to move west in an attempt to find a better life. Though Steinbeck puts the Joads into perspective as good people, the people in control make their lives miserable and almost impossible to cross the country to freedom to reach even the slightest prosperity. In the …show more content…
Foer establishes ethos for his readers as he describes, in ugly detail, how many of the animals are treated and killed in order to go from cage to plate. He describes a video taken of workers in one factory farm, and such a story makes the reader wonder why these animals are treated so poorly. “…videotape taken by undercover investigators showed some workers administering daily beatings, bludgeoning pregnant sows with a wrench, and ramming an iron pole a foot deep into mother pigs’ rectums and vaginas. These things… are merely perversion”(181-182). Foer describes how pigs are treated as well as how animals around the country such as cows, turkeys, chickens, and other animals are all treated horribly to emphasize that although he is just telling a story, in reality these injustices are repeatedly occurring. Such anecdotes as this are able to give the reader insight into the true situation that these victims are