The Orchid Thief Rhetorical Analysis

Every individual wishes to get what they want. Most people are willing to achieve their goals with tradition ways. Meanwhile, some people choose to approach their obsessions by different method. There are always some conflicts between pursuing personal desires and choosing to conform. When an individual choose to follow his desire and ambition by breaking the conformity, even after getting what he wants, individual can be not as happy as one expected, because the pressure from the conformity and distractions from surrounding already alters a person’s original happiness on the way of achieving goal.
When people refuse to act as conforms and pursuing their desire, they might give up in the way of achieving goals or end with displeased issue. In the excerpt of The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, John Laroche wants to chase his …show more content…
Turtles, Ice Age fossils, old mirrors and orchids are his collections. Those are not normal collections for a young boy; therefore he is described as a “weird little kid” in his childhood. This indicates that people are receiving pressures and bad rumours during the way to their desire. However, when Laroche thinks about how he enjoys his collecting, he is pursuing his personal desire. Also, his ambition is getting stronger and stronger. For example, when he is obsessed in turtles, he is trying to collect one of every single turtle species if possible. He is even thinking about his life is not worthy if he cannot achieve his goal, which is impossible in common sense. At last, he falls out of love turtles, because his passion and interest loses in his unachievable dream. In his description, there is not much conflict in his mind because his ambition makes him to only