Analysis Of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

The author used different elements of ethos, logos, pathos, and kairos to effectively communicate with the reader. Eve Tushnet the author of this essay does not have a whole lot of ethos. Eve is lacking credibility and character because she is not an established author. Eve is not a credible author because she is a freelance writer. Eve does not have good credibility because she blogs and contributes to an opinion magazine and website.

Another example of ethos is when she says, “a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce”(229). Including this statement makes the reader believe that she knows how a man thinks and this is important since in most of the essay she is writing from a man’s

The Essay “Good Arguments Against Evolution” is an argumentative essay that argues against evolution and for the existence of God, the essay is by a website www.creationtips.com a Christian site. The site is all about creationism(Support for the argument of a God), and the essay is aimed at atheists and agnostics. The Author of the essay at times effectively used rhetoric to fairly get across their view, but their over reliance on ethos and pathos overall negatively affected the essay stripping the argument they were presenting of depth. At times throughout the essay the author from the website uses rhetoric to convincingly get across he

Ethos is “the character and credibility of the writer in the eyes of the reader.” An example of this is, “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions..”. The author shows their credibility by stating they are representatives of the United States of America. The authors also portrayed this by, “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms.”

Another scene where the power relation between silence (inferiority) and voice (superiority) is involved can be found in the final chapter of The Woman Warrior. When Kingston finds her schoolmate’s sister who hardly talks standing alone in front of the school, she lures the silent girl to the lavatory and tortures her until she would break the silence. Kingston told her: “You’re going to talk, […] I am going to make you talk, you sissy-girl [emphasis added]” (Kingston 175). Here, Kingston chooses the role as the person in power, whereas her schoolmate is chosen to be the weaker one. It is important to note that Kingston becomes the one who makes choices for her and the girl in terms of power relations, while the other girl is being chosen to

The Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, explores Kingston’s identify formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. Kingston uses the first person to narrate five distinct short stories. Each of them contains a central female character. The unique feature of this book is the rearrangement of the traditional Chinese myths, legend of Fa Mu Lan and Ts’ai Yen. The combination of fantasy and reality is closely intertwined in the stories.

The woman warrior was an interesting novel of memoirs that gave her audience a new perspective on feminine values, and while there might have been various themes throughout this book, the main focus revolved around Kingston's femininity and struggles of finding one's own, personal voice. Throughout its five chapters there are numerous references to her everyday emotional and physical struggles of growing up as a chinese woman. Kingston's implementation of literary devices, such characterization, metaphors, and symbolism are used in order to brilliantly set the theme in The Woman Warrior. At the beginning of this novel, Kingston’s first chapter “No Name Woman”the entire family is silenced with secrecy, because of an aunt who had not only disgraced her family, but the entire village, when she became pregnant by someone other than her husband, who has been absent in her life for years.

There are many writers that affect our emotions or that make us think that his or her statements are reasonable, whether they are authors of books, or script writers for a movie or a play. In Morgan Spurlock’s film, Supersize Me, he uses three common rhetorical strategies: ethos, pathos, and logos. He uses all three effectively, however pathos has the greatest effect out of all three rhetorical strategies. Spurlock uses ethos, or ethical appeal, in his film.

Since the rise of the heinous concoction that is the smartphone camera and social media, pretty much every encounter a celebrity has with a fan is recorded and posted somewhere on the world wide web. While it has stripped even more privacy away from their already extremely public private lives, the constant presence of fan-wielded cameras has worked out quite well for some celebrities. Guys like Tom Hanks and Bill Murray have undoubtedly benefited from having their good guy antics caught on video and posted to Facebook and Twitter. On the other hand, more than a few famous faces have been portrayed rather unflatteringly in fan made films. While you generally shouldn’t judge somebody based on 30 seconds of footage, it’s pretty difficult to view somebody like Justin Bieber in a positive light

Although the ripple will disappear but at least it once has existed. The death is silent resistance to the hierarchy. Additionally, this is an ingenious use the death of her aunt to show Kingston’s and her aunt’s resistance. If Kingston stop at she “who killed herself,” many readers will think that her aunt kill herself because of abashment which can push her aunt in an adverse circumstance. Kingston need to use the miserable scene to evoke her author to deeply consider of equality.

The Heian period was denoted as the era of the aristocrats in Japan’s timeline. During this period, women created some of the greatest writing throughout Japan’s history, the most sophisticated and highly desired one being poetry. These poems allowed for an outsider to get an insight of Japan’s society and culture at the time. One of the celebrated author’s of this time was Sei Shōnagon, her most famous work being The Pillow Book. Although her work has been consecutively ridiculed as a poor depiction of the Heian court life, it has also been thought of as comical.

She uses ethos here because the speech is from a graduation and she’s an expert in graduating because she experienced it herself and she has an excellent life now. “Now all I have to do is take deep breaths, squint at the red banners and convince myself that I am at the world’s largest Gryffindor reunion” (Page 1, column 1, line 10-13) This is an allusion because it’s a reference to her well-known Harry Potter book series. This reference is very good, because many people know of her work and therefore they will relate to the content. “I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure.

Journal entries and stories of comfort women also reveal the contradictions in an attempt to include colonial women in the nation. In a journal entry by Kim Pongsuk, she claimed that “the Japanese told us that we would serve the Emperor and the great cause of the Japanese empire by becoming nurses and taking care of the Imperial Japanese soldiers.” Many narratives of colonial peoples give off the impression of an evil Japanese empire coercing colonial subjects into “serving the Emperor,” as if denoting the fact that the Emperor, in turn, was working for their interests. When these narratives are presented along post-war history and the Japanese state refusing to apologize for manipulating Korean women as comfort women, then there is often emphasis on vilifying the Japanese empire. In other words, the common narrative has been that colonial women were “included” through manipulation, yet “excluded” simply because the burden was put onto the “others,” as Japanese women did not have the same expectations.

The use of the word “Aunt” suggests that Jennifer is quite old and near the age of death. The phrase ‘fingers fluttering’ is an example of alliteration in the poem. It suggests that Aunt Jennifer is in fear or uncertain of something. The phrase ‘massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’ suggests that Aunt Jennifer thinks that her wedding was a mistake and that her husband is burden that has been placed upon her. The phrase ‘terrified hands’ suggests that her creation has the ability to do harm toward others.

Adeline Yen Mah grew up in a wealthy family in the 1950’s. She lived in a family where she was neglected by her sisters, brothers and parents. In this autobiographical text, Yen Mah expresses the negative tension between her father and her. In this essay, I will be discussing how Yen Mah insinuates through the use of language about her relationship with her father. “During the short drive home, my heart was full of dread