The two texts compared are “The Suit and The Photograph” by John Berger and “The Men We Carry in our Minds” by Scott Sanders. Both texts cover privilege and power in society. The ways Berger shows the purpose strongly is by the way he talks about the different classes and their position in the hierarchy and he uses the adoption of the suit by working class. He uses pictures, direct language, factual information and also interpretation. The way Sanders shows argumentative features is using personal experiences, assumptions, and questions. He shows this by talking about gender privileges and makes assumptions about who has what power. However Berger has a stronger case than Sanders and this is shown by the superior features used to form the argument such as audience, structure, strategy
…show more content…
An important factor of an argument is an audience. This is important to draw a certain type of reader in to read the text. Berger and Sanders have written differently but they have both drawn in good audiences for how they had written the text. The ways Berger has got the reader’s attention is by talking about the history of the suit and what it was like in the 20th Century and how people mixed up people from peasants to overall power and what each suit represents and where they stand in the class Hegemony. An example of this is that he describes the characteristics of a peasant as “if they are not suffering from malnutrition, they tend to be physically strong and well developed” (37). He states this sort of thing to engage the audience to make comparisons from the text to the picture. Berger has written a more factual text and that it has drawn in students or people who
An important factor of an argument is an audience. This is important to draw a certain type of reader in to read the text. Berger and Sanders have written differently but they have both drawn in good audiences for how they had written the text. The ways Berger has got the reader’s attention is by talking about the history of the suit and what it was like in the 20th Century and how people mixed up people from peasants to overall power and what each suit represents and where they stand in the class Hegemony. An example of this is that he describes the characteristics of a peasant as “if they are not suffering from malnutrition, they tend to be physically strong and well developed” (37). He states this sort of thing to engage the audience to make comparisons from the text to the picture. Berger has written a more factual text and that it has drawn in students or people who