Rhetorical Analysis Of The Company Man

To begin with, ethos is apparent in the excerpt “The Most Dangerous Job” by Eric Schlosser through his stories about workers and their families’ struggles. In the excerpt “The Most Dangerous Job,” Eric Schlosser states, “Each of their stories was different, yet somehow familiar, linked by common elements-the same struggle to receive proper medical care, the same fear of speaking out, the same underlying corporate indifference” (Schlosser 186). Schlosser shows the audience that he is a credible source through the stories of workers families. The families’ hardships showcase the corruption inside of

The young sisters, who know little about their father’s suffering, make fun of the hole without knowing the consequence of their action. The father is unable to intervene on his daughters’ behalf, as he sits there “face paled.” (40), till the mother orders the children to keep quiet. Apparently, his role in the family structure prevents him from expressing his emotion directly to his children. Nevertheless, after a visit to the doctor, it turns out that the father’s internal organs are intact despite their state of severe deformation, which shows the father’s incredible determination to remain functional in his family role after his tragic loss. Ironically, the doctors “pronounced him in great health” (41), which implies that apparent defects in mental health could be suppressed by the father’s unwillingness to challenge his image as a man, thus they are not easily detectable. The father’s behavioral patterns after his father’s death are in accordance to many stereotypical views of men.

The relationship between the two fathers and the two sons is a very important theme in this book. Because of their different backgrounds, Reb Saunders and David Malters approached raising a child from two totally different perspectives.

Because the father was so involved with himself, he did not make the time or put the effort to develop a proper relationship with his son.

What it did mention though – his “survivors” – served to arouse pity and mourning for his death. However, their statements only ironically reinforce Phil’s meaningless. His “ ‘dearly beloved’ eldest of the ‘dearly beloved’ ” child researched about his father the day before the funeral in a frantic and futile attempt to get to know him. Phil’s youngest child, his favorite, once said that “my father and I only board here,” distancing Phil away from him. Nobody, not even his children, cares about Phil, even on his deathbed. The final nail in the coffin is when his wife fails to “look [the company’s president] into the eye” and honors her husband’s death. Instead, she values preserving her relationship with the company president who will “straighten out the finances – the stock options and all that.” Phil leaves behind no legacy. His life, full of numbers, devoid of meaning, is just like every “company man” - and just like every “company man,” he will be

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

The next couple of lines portray the idea that it is only through the mother that the father and son are united. In life, her presence and assurances that they are alike linked them, and once she is gone, there is little to bring them together except their shared grief, which as they are so emotionally divided they find impossible to communicate.

The characters in this story are all within the same family. The narrator’s mother died, at an earlier time, due to eating poisonous fish. He had a brother, sister, and father who play major roles in the family dynamic. The narrator and sister are both young and not traditional in a way their father is. For example, “'You were swayed by certain -influences. Like so many others.” (____) The father is expressing his distaste for the way the sons generation acts; however, their father, being older, is a very traditional person compared to the children. The narrator feels uncomfortable around his father due to how uptight he is; furthermore, the narrator does not know how to hold a meaningful conversation with his father due to negative childhood memories as well as the failure of his business. The failure lead to the Watanabe family’s death, his business partner committed a murder-suicide. These differences create

The last line in the poem “and since they were not the ones dead, turned to their own affairs” lacks the emotions the reader would expect a person to feel after a death of a close family member. But instead, it carries a neutral tone which implies that death doesn’t even matter anymore because it happened too often that the value of life became really low, these people are too poor so in order to survive, they must move on so that their lives can continue. A horrible sensory image was presented in the poem when the “saw leaped out at the boy’s hand” and is continued throughout the poem when “the boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh…the hand was gone already…and that ended it”, this shows emphasis to the numbness the child felt. The poem continues with the same cold tone without any expression of emotion or feelings included except for pain, which emphasizes the lack of sympathy given. Not only did the death of this child placed no effect on anyone in the society but he was also immediately forgotten as he has left nothing special enough behind for people to remember him, so “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”. This proves that life still carries on the same way whether he is present or not, as he is insignificant and that his death

The father’s way of dealing with his inner issues is reflected by the way he distracts himself with hobbies of the women he loves. This illustrates how a sudden tragedy can influence someone’s lifestyle. In fact, before his first wife passed away he showed a lot of interest in art and when she died he was lost and devastated ,” (…) after mom died, my sister and I used to worry about his living alone. And he was lonely.We knew that after putting in his usual twelve-hours workday, he would return to the empty house (...) then read medical journals until it was time to go to sleep.”(16). This implies that

Corporation life consists of putting work and your career in front of everything else, and author Ellen Goodman uses her writing to warn others of its downsides. In the passage “The Company Man”, Goodman uses many rhetorical devices to illustrate her displeasure and irritation towards Phil. Goodman incorporates a unique style of diction, repetition, and anecdotes in her writing to achieve her emphasis on Phil’s lifestyle and to caution the reader about prioritizing work over personal health and family. In the brilliantly written piece of satire, "The Company Man", Ellen Goodman discreetly attacks the atypical hard-working middle class men in the 1980's society, who tend to be blinded by the illusion of wealth and prosperity and forget what is truly important – their own families and their own values. It seems that almost everyday on the news there is a new death mentioned of someone taken far too soon. There are always different stories behind them

Michael Gerard Bauer’s moving novel The Running Man is set in Ashgrove, Brisbane during the early 2000’s and tells the story of the unlikely friendship that is established between Tom Leyton, an enigmatic recluse, and his young neighbour Joseph Davidson. Several characters in the story exemplify that our initial perception of someone and what we see and hear about them is in no way an accurate reflection of who they truly are and all there is to see and know about them. As a child, Joseph saw Simon Jamieson as the mysterious ‘Running Man’ despite not being aware of the tragic past that caused him to be this way. Likewise, Mrs Mossop is perceived by the Davidsons to be somewhat of sticky-beak until she reveals the reason for her excessive caution.

I worked myself to death, finally and precisely, at 10:00 p.m. Sunday night. Although fabricated, seeing as I did not actually die, my exaggeration still conveys my stressful endeavor in preparing for finals. Unfortunately, Phil, also known as “The Company Man,” actually did “work himself to death,” at least according to Ellen Goodman. Goodman uses many rhetorical techniques, specifically diction, syntax, and satire, to convey her dismay at Phil’s laborious lifestyle.

Build a career for yourself that you do not need a vacation from but always keep the separation of work and life. In Ellen Goodman’s piece “The Company Man”, Goodman describes the habits of a workaholic named Phil who worked himself to death. The author criticizes Phil for neglecting his family and expresses her feelings through rhetorical strategies. Ellen Goodman is bitter and disapproving about the way Phil lived his life because of how many hours he spent at work, how little his family knew about him, and how easily he was replaced.

Given the task of conceptualizing a man who truly changed the realm of technology as we know it today, my mind secludes one person. That person is Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, now known simply as Apple. For this rhetorical analysis, I will be using three biographies/profiles about Jobs including “The Real Genius of Steve Jobs” by Malcolm Gladwell with The New Yorker (June 19, 2017), “Jobs’ Biography; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Apple” from NPR (October 25, 2011), and “Steve Jobs” from Biography.com (April 28, 2017). Precise attention to the audience, purpose, and tone, allows all three of these profiles to vividly explain and represent Jobs as the truly exceptionally minded man that he was.