Nicholas Kristof

To Continue, In the novel “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and the article “Can You Trust The News” by Lauren Tarshis, the authors use imagery that is similar to each other because in both imagery it is a situation that is unfair and incredibly negative. An example of this similarity in “Farewell to Manzanar” is “we woke early, shivering and coated with dust that had blown through the knotholes and through the slits around the doorway. During the night mama unpacked all the clothes and heaped them on the bed for warmth.” this imagery of the intense cold and dust covered children showed the tough and unfair living conditions. An example of this in the article is “Imagine someone made up a terrible lie about you: that you robbed a bank. Then imagine that this person wrote a whole

To explain imagery is a visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. An example of imagery is, “ the slide was smooth and slick and was painted a bright faded red.” This quote visually explains how the slide looks like. The use of this simile furthers the story because you can feel the story forming around you. To conclude, the use of imagery makes the story more clear for the reader to understand the

Logos is a literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence, or argument used to persuade or induce the readers. By utilizing logos, the essayist displays insights and facts to aid in the point being argued. Throughout the “Importance of Work”, Friedan practices this beneficial method of persuasion repeatedly. For instance, she states, “Psychiatrics have long used “occupational therapy” with patients in mental hospitals…” (5). Friedan used a meaningful idea of work by stating proven information that has transformed therapy. Additionally, Friedan states, “The very argument, by Riesman and others, that man no longer finds identity in the work defined as a paycheck job…” (4). This statement explains that work is not just a paycheck, work is who you are as a person and the drive an individual contains to do the job. The men during that time period proved this to be true by

In “Mericans” Sandra Cisneros uses imagery to develop the text’s theme. Imagery is when an author uses visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. In “Mericans” Sandra Cisneros uses imagery multiple times to describe and develop the scene around the narrator. The first example of imagery is “Some with fat rags tied around their legs and others with pillows, one to kneel on, and one to flop ahead”. Additionally imagery is used again, as it states, “After all that dust and dark, the light from the plaza makes me squinch my eyes like if I just came out of the movies.” The use of imagery creates an visualization of the area around the narrator and how she is reacting to that area.

This literary device is being used when he states, "I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a stoop... The stench of garbage is in the halls. The drunks... jobless... junkies are shadow figures of his everyday world". The use of imagery throughout his passage is to evoke emotions like empathy, from his audience. It allows his audience to be able to establish a connection with the images he portrays, and for the audience too also be able to understand how desperately social change is needed in the United States. Another example of imagery would be where he states," black people, brought to this land in slave ships and in chain, had drained the swamps, built the homes... to lift this nation from colonial obscurity to commanding influence...". He uses imagery to put the audience into the Black community's hoes, so that they are able to comprehend that the way Americans are treating them is not right and needs to be changed because they also made the nation great. He is further persuading his audience for social

Joey Franklin makes masterful use of rhetoric in his essay “Working at Wendy’s” to construct an entertaining and compelling argument in favor of recognizing that the workers of the service industry are more than just undistinguished drones, but rather complicated people, each with their own desires and stories. To this end, the author utilizes the effective rhetoric device of pathos, logos, and ethos. Franklin demonstrates an excellent use of imagery that serves as a conduit for empathy, which is vital for the use of pathos, the emotional appeal. In reference to logos, the appeal to logic, he paints the picture of a hard-working father that needs to provide for his family. This is a clear representation of common logic and ties into ethos, which is the rhetorical appeal to authority and ethics, in the sense that many people can relate to caring about and working to support family. For ethos, he establishes himself as your everyday working man — part of the working class. This shows that he’s clearly apt for speaking of the position he’s in, and allows the audience to relate to him through pathos.

Firstly, Ray Bradbury uses imagery to reveal how people may change because of the new technological advances in society all around them. Bradbury also explains how imagery is

Joey Franklin makes masterful use of rhetoric in his essay “Working at Wendy’s” to construct an entertaining and compelling argument in favor of recognizing that the workers of the service industry are not just undistinguished drones, but rather complicated people, each with their own desires and stories. To this end, the author utilizes the effective rhetorical device of pathos, logos, and ethos. Franklin demonstrates an excellent use of imagery that serves as a conduit for empathy, which is vital for the use of pathos, the emotional appeal. In reference to logos, the appeal to logic, he paints the picture of a hard-working father that needs to provide for his family. This is a clear representation of common logic and ties into ethos, which is the rhetorical appeal to authority and ethics, in the sense that many people can relate to caring about and working to support family. For ethos, he establishes himself as your everyday working man — part of the working class. This shows that he’s clearly apt for speaking of the position he’s in, and allows the audience to relate to him through pathos.

Go West, Young People! And East! By: Nicholas Kristof inspired students to learn a second or third language. He makes the argument that all young people need to learn a second or third language, the language Kristof mentions is spanish. “All young americans should learn spanish” (P3). His stand for this is most retiring elderly people are going to move to these other countries like Mexico, Costa Rica, and Peru. His argument also is that learning a second language is good for the brain. Kristof mentioned in (P3) that it doesn’t make sense to take a spanish speaking class on campus but to rather move to said country and fall in love with one of the locals and experience learning that second or third language that way. The author also mentions in (P1) that “more than 130 different languages are spoken daily in commerce in

"Outside the house, a shadow moved, an autumn wind rose up and faded away. But there was something else in the silence that he heard. It was like a breath exhaled upon the window..." (48) Imagery is very important to authors and especially Ray Bradbury in in his novel, Fahrenheit 451. Ray uses imagery in the story to have us interpret and work for information. Through imagery not only does the reader enjoy the story, they now feel a part of the story to solve the puzzles the author left behind.

Damon Knight’s “The Country of the Kind” follows a narrator who the audience at first knows little about, who lives in a society that is different from the norm, but is also initially left ambiguous. This sense of the unknown exists up until the narrator stumbles upon a pamphlet which opens up new viewpoints to the reader. The pamphlet serves to create three new perspectives in particular, all of which significantly shift the reader’s understanding of the story. First, it gives the reader a chance to understand the narrator and sympathize with him. Second, it offers a new perspective on society and their overall conception of what defines a utopia. The third and final perspective is that of the people who live within this society, and their interactions with the main characters. These three new perspectives prove to be formative in understanding the main character, his interactions with other characters in the story, and the role of society.

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

In the essay “Endless Summer” by Rick Bragg, imagery is one the rhetorical devices used in order to describe how much fun summertime was when he was a small boy and what this generation of children are missing out on. The writer starts by describing what the mud hole in Calhoun County, Alabama was like, he explains that “It was hip deep on a small boy” and “40 feet long”. He went on describing the fun things that he did at the mud hole, he “waded in it, threw rocks at it, caught snakes in it” and he had also “built a great vessel and sailed across it” although it was just a piece of plywood. The writer then declares in detail the activities that most children aren't allowed to experience back when he was a child, things like “to stomp in

In conclusion, David Zinczenko’s use of rhetorical appeals such as personal experiences, reliable sources, and creative scenarios has strengthened the author’s

A great example of imagery is in the line, “brake rods, exhausts, piled like snakes” (63). This quote is depicting what one can find in used car lots that were full of not only car parts, but snake-like salesmen as well. The scorching heat of the sun is mentioned again when Steinbeck explains that “the sun whipped the earth”, and this is also an example of personification (163). Moreover, by explaining in great detail most actions and conversations the Joads had throughout their travels, Steinbeck makes the reader feels as though they are a part of the family. Private enterprise is criticized as a man tells the Joad men, “... “ever’thing in California is owned... An’ them people that owns it is gonna hang on to it if they got to kill ever’body in the worl’ to do it” (206). This conversation had served to raise awareness of how the large farming companies were taking advantage of people by running small farmers out of business, paying low wages because men would work just to feed their starving children, and keeping the poor poor. Steinbeck was advocating for change with his writing. Another attack had been on the government in this quote, “Sheriff gets seventy-five cents a day for each prisoner, an’ he feeds ‘em for a quarter” (271). By including this, the novel is demonstrating how its take on the corruption of the government and its law enforcers - that this practice of paying to put struggling people in jail