Rhetorical Devices In The Company Man By Ellen Goodman

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his bold novel, The Scarlet Letter tackles a variety of themes that include: sin, guilt, redemption, postfeminism, and organized religion's abuse of power. Hawthorne spoke in a somber and grim tone, designed to arouse a sense of suspense for his readers. The audience in which he was addressing would have been conservative Christians and women suffragettes, all of whom reflected the ideologies during this time period. By instilling clever diction, Hawthorne exposes hypocrisy in Puritanism and objects against the religion's superfluous punishments; which force individuals to endure unnecessary and extreme suffering.

The excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Building the House” serves as a way to describe what happens during the poetry writing process. Although Mary Oliver believes that writing poetry is hard work, she uses extended metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor .

In “The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman, throughout the passage Goodman illustrates her feelings of distaste and anger toward Phil, as he in her mind represents Corporate America: routine, indifferent, almost robotic. Goodman uses numerous rhetorical strategies to convey her attitude toward Phil, including tone, repetition, the use of statistics, sarcasm, anecdotes, differing syntax, and irony.

In the passage, The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart states, “Driving west from Fargo on I–94, the freeway that cuts through the state of North Dakota, you’ll encounter a road so lonely, treeless, and devoid of rises and curves in places that it will feel like one long-held pedal steel guitar note” (Marquart 1). Debra Marquart, along with several others, share a great passion for the Midwest. The Midwest is an area that is truly full of the unknown, as much of its qualities are not known to society. The Midwest can easily be viewed as bland and insipid, yet also overly structured and undisclosed. It can be exceptionally difficult for one to fully understand the Midwest due to its size and variation. Although, all in all, it most certainly can be described as an area, whose positives are not know by all. In Debra Marquart’s writing, The Horizontal World, she utilizes comical satires and evident allusion to characterize the land of the upper Midwest.

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.

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.

Jonathan Edwards is one of the leaders of the “Great Awakening.” Before reading the text, determine the historical context through online research. In one or two sentences, briefly define the historical context of Edward's’ speech. What does Edwards hope to accomplish with this sermon? Define his purpose.

Keith Grant-Davie's essay on rhetorical situations is an in depth explanation of rhetorical situations. A rhetorical situation is when a rhetorician or writer wants to change the way an audience see's or understands something by using discourse. Grant-Davie describes the four main parts of a rhetorical situation as being the rhetor, an audience, exigence, and constraints. The rhetor, is the speaker or producer that is trying to get an idea into the audiences head. The audience is anyone who is taking in the material that the rhetor is advertising. Exigence is the "problem" that the rhetor is addressing; the whole reason discourse was brought to light. Finally constraints are the boundaries the rhetor follows to butter up the audience. They

Ellen Goodman uses satire in The Company Man to inspect the lifestyle of a worker named Phil, “ a workaholic,” a “perfect type A” who, for most people, “worked himself to death.” Phil was busy, working “six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night.” Until one Saturday morning precisely at 3:00 a.m., Phil dies unexpectedly on his day off. Goodman displays that Phil was just a “ Company Man,” all he did was work hard, and get nothing. Showing bitter emotions towards Phil. Goodman uses repetition and very direct and organized language to create a report out of Phil’s life. Ellen Goodman feels that Phil is a victim of his own

In the excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Young Goodman Brown, he uses diction to create a negative tone. Hawthorne's words provide imagery that shows a mental breakdown in the main character's psych. The very descriptive adjectives and adverbs support the idea, and make the setting feel eerie and change the reader's mental image of Goodman Brown. Hawthorne makes the reader empathize with Goodman Brown, with changing the syntax to an almost racing, aggressive structure. When our character reaches the pulpit, Hawthorne's adjectives become less descriptive and dark. Changing the syntax to a more relaxed style and the mood of the story completely changes. The reader can feel Goodman Brown's relief and breath with him after he recovers

The saying “Guys will be guys” can be interpreted many different ways good and bad. In this article Barry explains both the good and bad habits that guys have vs the ones that men have. While “Guys vs. Men” by Dave Barry has strong use of pathos and logos overall it was not successful in convincing the audience to believe that there is a difference in Guys vs Men.

Golding was a pessimistic man but he was also a truthful man. He understood that man is inherently evil and wrote a book explaining his knowledge to the world. This was a bold move but he wrote the Lord of the Flies because he had a message that he needed to unveil. Why was this message so significant? He saw the brutality of WWII from the position of a British soldier in the Royal Navy. He saw people being slaughtered in front of him. The cruelties of war can only be described in a basic way through a children’s book because if he were to go into detail everyone would be throwing up their lattes and pink, sprinkled pop-tarts. However, his purpose was to write this novel and if he chose not to do it, there would have been one more reason for people to be naive in their beliefs of this world. Instead, he was a truthful man who was not afraid to divulge the necessary information to make people stop and think about their actions. Therefore, doesn’t it make sense that Golding would write a novel arguing his point of the inherent evil of man?

Seyler states that arguments happen everywhere and all the time. Seyler argued that arguments won’t lead to a person writing a novel. Seyler also noted that “communication skills are the single most important skill sought by employers”, meaning that when employers are looking for a new employee, they want them to have communication skills that will help a business thrive. Seyler also lets the reader know that by becoming a better writer, and then the reader develops into a far better reader. Seyler pointed out that “the more you write, the more you learn about who you are and what really matters to you”. Also, the more a writer writes their paper’s in confident the better they will be at writing better essays. Seyler also encourages the readers

Much like Jenny Craig, Company Man demonstrates the fear we have for anything but what we consider perfect and the risks we are willing to take to reach our goal of perfection. Company Man tells the story of a man married more to his job than to his family leaving his children without a father and his wife without a husband when he dies of a heart attack after overworking himself. The company man worked hard out of the fear that he would disappoint his family and appear inferior in the workplace resulting in his death.. If he had focused more on what his family wanted more than what he believed they needed, they would have missed him more upon his passing, but because he was never around and now will never be around again, the hole in the family photos

American journalist,orator, and commentator, Ellen Goodman in her essay, “ The company man” criticizes Phil, who is created to fit the typical hardworking and work oriented man in society. This essay was used to describe a man who worked himself to death. Goodman uses this essay to condemn how angered she is by first using an extended anecdote that shows the life of a man who puts work in front of his family, she then uses parallelism through sentence structure to draw attention to how irritated she is by it,and lastly repetition to emphasize how his work consumed his life which allows the reader to relate and show what has commonly been accepted in society. The author is very precise on the amount of information she allows the reader to