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Analysis Of The Book ' Jobs ' Up His Life '

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Apple’s former CEO, Steve Jobs, in his speech, narrates his personal experience about success and failure. His purpose is to tell the new generation to do what they truly want to do. The audience of his speech is the students of Stanford University. Here, he adopts a sincere and sentimental tone in order to convince the new generation of the importance of doing what they want to do. This speech, which is entitled “Jobs summed up his life”, focuses on encouraging new generation to do what their want to do. The first story is about connecting the dots. The second story is about love and loss. The last one is about death. Jobs uses three stories to describe his study experience,dropping from his school, joining Apple company and being fired from Apple and creating Pixar. In the end, he is successful and he knows that important things are family and failure. At the first, jobs find that it is important thing is to learn what you like, whatever it is noting use today. As Jobs says,“I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?” Job’s employs the questions to catch people’s attention and arose their curiosity. Besides, after six months, I couldn 't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out, here, jobs gives details of why he dropped out of school,

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