Rhetorical Analysis
Ruth Graham in the article, “Why Adopted Children Struggle Over Time,” explicates that adopted children are proven to have more difficulties compared to “normal” children regardless of when they were adopted. Graham supports her claims by giving factual evidence from recent scientific studies. The author’s purpose is to bring awareness to the effects of being adopted in order to clarify a common misconception that while in most cases the children are adopted into successful families, they still experience effects from adoption. The author writes in an educated tone to convey to her readers, the general public, that her claims are credible.
The author begins his article by describing the typical family that adopts a child. He describes them as a family with “extra love and resources to meet a child in desperate need of both.” Graham then uses statistics to prove the percentage of adopted children with disabilities is higher than the percentage of children
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First, she does this to continue to engage the readers. Asking a question renews the readers’ interest in the subject by making them think from a different perspective. In addition, she questions this situation in order to show a shift in her discussion and make it easy for the reader to follow. In the beginning, Graham is discussing evidence that strictly proves there is a higher percentage of kids with disabilities that are adopted then raised by biological parents. By asking this question, Graham makes it clear that she is shifting from this focus to the “why” or reason this occurs. By asking this question, it make it easier for the reader to understand because the question creates a clear, logical separation in the