Rhetorical Analysis Of The Baby In The Well By David Foster Wallace

Having your audience understand the purpose of a reading is determined by the author’s choice of words and valid information to support the purpose, but none of those would make sense without an explanation for that detail. David Foster Wallace, the commencement speaker of the speech “This is Water” and Paul Bloom author of the online magazine article “The Baby in the Well” are two good examples of writing that is able understand the purpose’s of each written piece . Wallace’s purpose is that it is graduates’ responsibility to create their own future and but be able to think in an unselfish matter. Bloom’s purpose is that his audience needs to be critical of empathy because sometimes empathy is not n’t automatically the best response. Wallace

His letter in return thanked her for her letter and at the end of his letter he wrote, “If you don’t already know what it means, I want you to look up the word ‘empathy’ in the dictionary. I believe we don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Telling this event was useless because it doesn’t support nor clearly state his purpose. By not clearly establishing the purpose made it difficult as the reader in identifying what the purpose

Bloom lacks in using pathos when he to provide the evidence in describing the book on bullying “‘Sticks and Stones’ (Random House), Emily Bazelon wrote, The scariest aspect of bullying is the utter lack of empathy’—a diagnosis that she applies not only to the bullies but also to those who do nothing to help the victims.” He did not explain nor use powerful, meaningful words to explain and express his reaction to the subject. Knowing your audience and word choice used towards your audience made Wallace the more effective