Does anyone you know have bowling buddies? Through Mack’s speech he wishes to persuade the college freshmen to want and enjoy reading Shakespeare. He claims this will help them later in life. Mack constitutes an effective argument that shows how Shakespeare is difficult to understand but worth the effort through his use of claims and his appeal to his audience. One device that Mack uses to advance his argument is his use of claims. In lines 3-5 Michael Mack uses a claim. He states this claim from the freshmen point of view. This shows he has an understanding of Shakespeare himself and how the people who read it think. In lines 65-66 he claims Shakespeare is like a lens to the real world. Through this claim he uses logic and compares