Rhetoric Techniques Used In The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeanette Walls in which she tells the story of her childhood and the way she became who she is. Her path to her balanced present was too difficult and full of hardships, yet she managed to become a successful and prosperous person whose life experience gives her a push to make her life happy. It stands to mention that the novel is full of symbols which contribute to reader's understanding of Jeanette's character and represent her most important traits and desires. Besides, all the symbols such as the fire, the Joshua tree, the geode and the glass castle are recurring and contribute to understanding the struggle of Jeanette's childhood, her ability to overcome it and build a successful life.

For example, in the Great Gatsby, George and Mrytle live in a place called the Valley of Ashes which symbolizes that their marriage is dead which allows Gatsby to try and steal Mrytle away from George. Another use of symbolism in The Great Gatsby is associating the color white with Daisy throughout the book to show that she is pure and perfect in the mind of Gatsby which is caused by his blindness to see that she has parasitic tendencies.. The Jelly-Bean uses symbolism in a similar way by making Nancy represent false happiness in Jim's heart which eventually lead to him being heartbroken because he was blinded by the idea of how perfect he thought she was similar to Gatsby. When the two females are symbolized it helps further the theme by creating the concept of that they aren't just characters in a story but also lessons to be learned and retained after the story is over. Overall the use of symbolism sets up the possibility for the reader to further understand a certain characters impact on another either emotionally or

Could the dysfunction of the Walls family have fostered the extraordinary resilience and strength of the three older siblings through a collaborative set of rites of passage? One could argue that the unusual and destructive behavior of the parents forced the children into a unique collection of rites of passage that resulted in surprisingly resilient and successful adults. In moving back to Welch, Virginia, the children lost what minimal sense of security they may have enjoyed while living in their grandmother’s home in Arizona. The culture and climate (both socially and environmentally) along with an increased awareness of their poverty resulted in a significant loss of identity. As they learned new social and survival skills in this

Jeannette Walls develops her characters in "The Glass Castle" through her use of figurative language. Living with her family and going through so much in her life, Jeannette grows and learns the value of family. Even so her family wasn’t the best in the world, she could never hate them but only grow to love them more. She knew that even though her family was one crazy family she learned the value of having a home or having food on the table. Always on the run with her family, either running from the FBI, Police, or land owners.

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible yo make a comparison about the problems in 1950’s. Arthur Miller i The Crucible, utilized rhetorical devices such as, allusion, symbolism, and dialogue, to portray his allegory of the Mccarthy “witch hunts” of the 1950’s.

In the Bad Kids, the filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are trying to relay the idea that many young adults who live in communities surrounded by poverty, are deemed as “Bad”, Fulton along with Pepe wanted to explain how most of these young adults want to free themselves of these circumstances, but restrictions of their past always find a way to hinder those actions as they try to graduate high school and make something of themselves. To develop this idea the filmmakers, draw the audience emotionally into private moments in the subjects’ lives using music, editing style, rhetorical techniques and camera placement. Utilizing music without lyrics allows the audience to develop a feeling toward the lives of each individual subject, without

In Edwidge Danticat’s story, “A Wall of Fire Rising,” we see how symbolism takes place all throughout the story. We begin to see symbolism at the beginning of the story when little Guy and Lili tell Guy about the character in the play little Guy is going to portray. When little Guy tells his father he's going to play the revolutionary Boukman, we see the reaction his father gives out. He keeps asking little Guy if he thinks he can memorize all the lines his character says in the play, almost like Guy is testing little Guy’s ability to play Boukman, but we see this go away when little Guy recites a part of his character. The symbol of the character of Boukman has big meaning to it because it’s his part in the play who says, “ At night I relive once more the last caresses from the hand

I have been your classmate for several months and believe that you are very intelligent man. That is why I am sure that you might have used the three aspects of rhetoric approaches because they are based on skills that we all have: logic, ethic, and feelings. By using credible sources and proper grammar, you are using ethos, without doubt. However, at some point, you must have used some personal experiences or logic, which appeals to logos. If you think that you also put some heart into it, trying to make readers understand the topic from their personal point of view, that should be considered as pathos because, you are appealing to their feelings, the way they see the topic.

German writer Gertrud von Le Fort once said, "Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world." The Glass Menagerie author, Tennessee Williams, does just that by using symbols to show the main themes in the play. Some of the main themes, represented by symbols, Williams uses are memories, living in the past, hope, feeling trapped, insecurity, and adventure and escape. Writers use symbols to help bring meaning and emotion to the story. Symbolism helps the play or story become more powerful and memorable to the viewer or reader.

Symbolism helps the author to show the reader the theme of a story by using objects of characters to show an in-depth idea the author has in a text. Symbols are a great way to show how characters feel in a story. In The Glass Menagerie, there are themes throughout the play, such as adventure, fragile, prison, youth, memory, and hope, Tennessee Williams, uses symbols like movies, glass unicorn, the tiny apartment, gentlemen callers, light, and husband in order to show these themes in the play.

The order the plot goes in is first exposition which gives all the characters, next is rising action which leads up to the problem, then climax which gives the problem, then falling action which is putting the problem back into place, finally there is resolution which solves everything. Exposition in this paragraph, the characters in the passage include William, Hester, and their two sons. William is the father and a hardworking man on the farm. Hester is the mother, she cleans the house and cares for her family. The two sons work on the farm with their father William.

Throughout life, people subconsciously unveil attributes about themselves by way of symbols. A symbol indicates a greater meaning than the literal implication and represents ideas, emotions, or states of mind of a person. Symbolism in the theatre can be accomplished through costumes, color, props, characters and movements. In Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, symbolism is uniquely used. The fire escape in the house and the glass menagerie are two vital figures in the play that reveal qualities about the characters and connect to the idea of escape.

The use of symbolism adds on to the imagery showing the meaning behind the images that can be pictured. All the symbolism has to do with the obstacles

Throughout my writing, my identity and my style of language changes based on the audience I’m targeting and the purpose of the assignment. This said, as a writer I determined who my target audience is for an specific work and then proceeded to build my argument. In addition, the purpose of the assignment greatly influences my style of language and my identity. In regards to my tone, I engage my audience in a way that will invite them to feel receptive to my message. Similarly, my voice projected an appropriate kind of authority and agency in respect to my audience. As a result, my identity as a writer would change in order to effectively communicate with different audiences, as seen in the character, Metamorph, on issue 3 of the textbook, Understanding Rhetoric 2nd Edition. Different identities were developed based on the purpose and the intended audience of various work. For example, Project 1 required a rhetorical analysis and synthesis of three sources. My audiences for Project 1 were the authors of the three sources analyzed.

In Creative Writing, the only rule (which really isn’t a rule, but a strong suggestion) about establishing a voice is that it appropriately serve the subject matter and audience for which it is being written.