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Rhetorical Analysis Of Anne Beatty

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Anne Beatty is a schoolteacher in South Central Los Angeles who has seen a lot in her career. Although she only tells of a few different experiences in her essay, she gives the general idea of what the school and area is life. Not only does she tell stories, but she does a lot of reflecting throughout the essay about what she experiences. The essay focuses on the intense violence in the area and how common deaths are in the area that they have a routine in place at her school. Beatty uses persuasion techniques in her essay to gain the reader’s attention, get them to agree with her position, and have them see the experiences through her eyes. Through her essay concerning the deaths in a South Central Los Angeles school, Anne Beatty utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade the …show more content…

This first-hand experience gives her high credibility for what she writes about the school, the area, and the kids. Through detailed descriptions of each of her experiences and her thought provoking reflections, Beatty shows that she is a believable author on this specific topic. This persuasion effect is ethos and she successfully makes the reader believe that she is a good source of information. Beatty uses the effect of pathos very effectively, in that her writing appeals emotionally to the reader. The reader empathizes not only with her, but with the kids that struggle in her school. The reader dislikes the dean that yells at the saddened DeAndre because Beatty portrays her as cruel and unsympathetic with the boy that just lost Maurice. In Beatty’s story of DeAndre, she makes the reader feel bad for the kid. It seems like nobody understands him and that he is alone in the situation. When Beatty confronts DeAndre and asks if he knew Maurice, DeAndre shakes his head yes, but when he goes to explain further, his voice breaks. This has an emotional appeal to the reader because we

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