The Sunflower Rhetorical Analysis

What makes a person to become a leader or a follower? Alejandro Ines, a college student at Porterville College, writes about how anybody could be a leader and a follower, in his essay, called “Follower or Leader?” Ines introduced a book we read in class, called, “The Sunflower,” by Simon Wiesenthal, an author and a Jew who survived the Holocaust. Ines thesis was, “The life of the typical leaders and followers is composed of many intellectuals, such as mentoring, motivation, and obedience.” Ines’s stances were powerful that they are all reasonable, as well as debatable. However, Ines’s body paragraphs are not as strong as they should be.
As what I mentioned, his reasons are strong, though, he can still improve his body paragraphs by pulling quotes from different articles, books, and films, we covered in class. For instance, on his first reason about, “mentoring,” he should have added the TED talk about Sammy Rangel, on how Sammy was tortured by his mother, and his relative. Sammy’s actions when he ran away, was influenced by his childhood, where his own mother disowned and treated him badly. On his second paragraph, about …show more content…
Ines started his counter argument with, “Many people in the United States tend to believe people are both leaders and followers, but there are a few people that may argue that people are born leaders and followers.” This sentence could have been more better. His words are repetitive and sometimes does not make sense. Was he talking about whether a person is nurtured to become a follower or a leader? Most readers, will fail to guess on what Ines is trying to explain. He also talked about monarchy which was a good topic to provide. However, monarch is still happening until today, though, he mentioned that it happened “back then.” Also, he added and repeated his three reasoning on his counter argument, whereas it is not necessary to have his claims in this