Rhetorical Analysis Of The Devil In The White City By Erik Larson

He was finally free, no joy filled his heart but abandonment was drowning it. How dangerous is indifference to humankind as it pertains to suffering and the need for conscience understanding when people are faced with unjust behaviors? Elie Wiesel is an award winning author and novelist who has endured and survived hardships. One of the darkest times in history, a massacre of over six million Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler himself. After the Holocaust he went on and wrote the internationally acclaimed memoir “Night,” in which he spoke out against persecution and injustice across the world. In the compassionate yet pleading speech, ¨Perils of Indifference,¨ Elie Wiesel analyzes the injustices that himself and others endured during the twentieth century, as well as the hellish acts of the Holocaust through effective rhetorical choices.

How can two people be so different, yet so similar? The World’s Columbian Exposition was a major event in the 19th century. The fair was something that’s never been done before in history triumphing the famous Eiffel Tower. As spectacular as the fair was there were murders being committed without any signs of slowing down. The Devil in the White City tells a story between the architect Daniel Burnham and the infamous serial killer H.H. Holmes. Erik Larson uses imagery, diction, and comparisons to characterize and show how similar their traits and goals were during this time.

Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph, "The Terror" Notorious essayist and writer, Junot Diaz, in his essay, "The Terror", reflects on the fear a middle school beating implemented on him. Diaz's purpose is to express the life altering effect the power of fear can have on someone. The writes establishes an empathetic diction through the use of empathetic phrases such as, "white middle-class bigotry was cutting the heart out of me. "

Additionally, King builds his credibility with the utilization of ethos in his text in order to convince them of his argument. By appealing to the readers’ ethics, they can see how trustworthy King’s words are and then can let themselves be persuaded by his matter-of fact tone and professionalism in writing. King is a realist, which means that he almost always represents things as they really are, which profoundly helps establish his honest persona. Most of Stephen King’s writing represents more than one tenet, as his stories that he tells about his childhood and road to recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism can be seen as not only pathos, but and etho as well, as these stories help the readers to understand what kind of person he is, and how he accomplished all of his success despite a couple of major roadblocks. This is why it can be seen that King uses pathos most heavily in his writing, by telling vivid stories, etc. in order to touch upon human emotion towards human experiences/traits, while also creating a strong voice in his writing as well. The overlapping of these appeals help support the ethics and sensibility of King’s work. There are scores of times where it can be clearly identified where ethos have been used in his writing. For example, King says “I’m a slow reader, but i usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, mostly fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; i read because i like to read.- Similarly, I don't read to study the art of fiction, but simply because I like stories-Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (King, pg 145) This helps to support the idea that writing is learned through reading, and also is learned through the mistakes of other writers. There is no better way to learn than to look at a piece of writing that has some minor or even major flaws and to analyze the piece to see what the issue is, and learn from their mistake to better your own writing in the future. Another one of King’s main arguments is that no writer is perfect. There are always things that you can do to make your writing even better, no matter how small the adjustment may be. It’s a learning process

Nonfiction is easier to believe than fiction. It is likely that we find interest in what we read when the book is nonfiction rather than a fiction book. However, fiction helps you think more while processing the text you are trying to comprehend. Thoughts like, “what if this happened to me,” “How would I react,” tend to come up. I have learned more about East LA and how gang violence was, and is still a major issue. Literature influences change. If Luis didn’t encounter writing, or poetry he may still be involved in

Many people can confuse joy and pleasure because they are similar or the same thing but author Zadie Smith mentions the differences between joy and pleasure. She explains that sometimes joy can’t be pleasurable at all. She talks about joy as a different type of emotion.

A quality literary nonfiction book should have relevant anecdotes that allow the reader to connect with the experience stated. For example, an anecdote should have emotion tied into it that sets up the reader for the next idea, but if the anecdote is about one thing and nowhere in the book does the author go back to the anecdote, then it is irrelevant and becomes an obstacle for the mind and its understanding of the argument that has been discussed.

Tucker Max’s famous words state that “the devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.” H. H. Holmes, a main character in Erik Larson’s 2003 novel titled “The Devil in the White City,” exemplifies Max’s statement. This novel recreates the lives of Daniel Burnham, the architect of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and H. H. Holmes, the mastermind serial killer who takes advantage of the fair to find his victims. Larson demonstrates the contesting forces of good and evil within the World’s Fair among his use of figurative language, allusion, and imagery to emphasize that evil can lurk in the shadows as well as in plain sight.

In the CNN article titled Sacramento “Police Shot Man Holding Cellphone in his Grandmother's Yard”, the authors target was an audience from a broad spectrum of political ideologies to inform them about the current police shooting of Stephon Clark. The rhetoric pathos was effectively utilized with various media and even the title to evoke certain emotions from the readers. Logos along with ethos supported information and gave the article added credibility like body camera, audio, and direct quotes from the officers on scene. However, the authors’ view on the issue was not clearly stated rather highlights the different perspectives.

The purpose of glittering sword was to show a sharp type of pain hanging you from God's

The Message of the Memoir Night Eliezer Wiesel writes, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish Holocaust survivor, an author, and a human rights activist. At the onset of the Holocaust however, Eliezer Wiesel was a thirteen-year-old, small-town-boy of Sighet, Transylvania who by all accounts was “deeply observant” (Wiesel 3). The Holocaust was a dark time in Jewish history in which Anti- Semitics; mainly the German Nazis led by Hitler, tried to exterminate the Jews. As an author, Eliezer uses an array of rhetorical appeals. Rhetorical appeals consist of pathos, logos, and ethos.

"The Redeemed Captive" is about an English family man named John Williams. One night a racially mixed group of thieves breaks into his house. The Thieves killed two of his children then brought him and the rest of the family along. They found themselves on a very long march among their neighbors, being taken towards Canada. The captors who the English refer to as masters were brutal to them injuring and usually killing those who could no longer March. When they arrive at a French community the French treated the Europeans very kindly while treating the Natives poorly. Finally they reached canada where the mayor took them in and they were safe again. Stories often use rhetorical appeals to further capture the audience's emotions or persuade

Storytelling is something we all do naturally. It is an innate ability that has been practiced since the dawn of civilization. Stories can be told through literature, visuals, performances, or word of mouth. As time elapses, the way in which we tell stories involves. Although, the way in which we tell stories change, the essence of them remain by incorporating the basic elements of good storytelling.

In today’s society, artificial light is all over the place, wherever we go, there always is artificial light. Some people wish to see true darkness again, and one of those people is Paul Bogard. Paul bogard believes that natural darkness should be preserved and it is our job to make sure it is preserved. He builds a very persuasive essay using his memories and by asking many rhetorical questions to the reader. HE starts his essay of by remembering a time when he saw true darkness, untainted by artificial light. Then he uses facts to show how much the world has changed and how the next generation may never see true darkness. Than he comes back to his emotions and how he felt and that he thinks that we aren’t realizing the worth of true darkness, and if we don’t do something now,

In the article “Let There be Dark” by Paul Bogard, he is trying to convince and persuade people that natural darkness should be preserved. However, the ways in which he does that is the most interesting thing about this article, since he is very good at convincing people about his cause. Throughout “Let There be Dark,” Paul Bogard uses many techniques in order to persuade the readers that natural darker should be preserved, including stylistic devices, rhetoric devices and the modes of persuasion.