Rhetorical Analysis of “Graduation” by Maya Angelou Graduation is an exceptionally huge move time in practically everybody's life. It is about continuing forward to something better and more vital and to use your understanding to fulfill life targets. This is the same exact thing that Maya Angelou believed, including the students that went to summer school with her. Given from Angelo’s perspective, the story Graduation has ethos for the reason that as an African American young lady, she had the same contemplations and emotions as everybody on the stage or in the auditorium when Mr. Edward Donleavy unreceptively degraded everything the students had worked so hard to attain. This story is told by a lady who had exceeded most of her difficulties in life in order to get up to the present time, and through her learned, and individual, figurative, and organized composed work, has had the ability to pass on both the wiped out conclusions and the warm feelings of that experience from Mr. Donleavy’s talk, to that of Henry Reed. In a …show more content…
Donleavy’s speech "The man’s dead words fell like bricks around the auditorium and too many settled in my belly." (24) In the way that everybody recently acknowledged that he was depreciating their accomplishments and their potential outcomes made her leave to it too. While reading this part it makes the reader feel sorry for her and unites them. She evokes emotion at another time when she is unfolding Henry Reed’s speech. "I had been listening and silently rebutting each sentence with my eyes closed…I looked up and saw Henry Reed, the conservative, the proper, the A student, turn his back to the audience and turn to us...and sing...the Negro national anthem." (26-27) Numerous readers are not African American and do not remember their national anthem, however, the way in which Angelou portrays this part is to a great degree of figurative. It is less difficult to visualize what is going