A Rhetorical Analysis Of Sending Grandma To The Ovens By Colin Cohen

Writer, Colin Cohen, in his article, “Sending Grandma to the Ovens”, proposes a sarcastic idea to solve Problems regarding the elderly in modern America. Cohen’s purpose is to, in a way, call out those who cannot support the elderly as well as the elderly who cannot support themselves. He creates a very sarcastic tone in order to convey to the readers that his idea of killing the elderly will solve many of the issues surrounding them. Cohen’s use of sarcasm throughout his argument to solidify each solution while also using a form of informational process as a way to lay out the possibilities and structure of his proposal as a way to counter each negative outcome. With factual data and statistics his arguments are reinforced as Cohen points

He alludes to the idea that the cost of elderly is increasing rapidly by using sarcasm to point to the idea that America is greedy and not aware of the economic problems caused by the elderly and by doing so he proposes a way to solve these problems. Cohen includes “an early form of retirement: extermination” and the possibilities such as “unmatched economic prosperity”. He proposes an idea filled with sarcasm to pick on the U.S. for its way of solving large economic problems with useless solutions such as early retirement programs. (Colin 1) The sarcastic tone of Cohen to the audience is to evoke a form of change and encourage those to find a better way to deal with the elderly no longer as burdens while at the same time criticizing and past ideas that have becomes useless. Overall sarcasm as one of the many strategies Cohen uses to criticize the audience while providing reliable

(Colin 1) Cohen uses this process in a very formal way describing the outcomes of each step taken toward extermination such as describing how the main process will occur first “everyone 65 and older will report to their extermination centers, forcibly if necessary” and the rules of the income by giving the elderly the option to “leave the money to descendants or donate it to a chosen charity” both phrases describing not just the options the elderly have access to but the outcomes of the process. (Colin 1) He describes this process in such detail to increase strength for his argument to diminish any form of contradiction against his extermination plan as well as appealing the audience’s curiosity when it comes to the questions formed by the extermination proposal. With as information process strategy the room for curiosity is miniscule as the process is able to answer questions for the audience and justify every decision while also calling out America for their greed and no desire to