Rhetorical Precis Of 1984 By Malcolm Gladwell

You can feel the adrenaline thrusting through your veins as if a goliath was hammering your heart. The blood flowing to your brain causes you to have a crippling headache, the doors open to the lone darkness. The bright lights cause your sight to derail into an epileptic sprawl, the next time you open your eyes the man below is bleeding to death, gasping for any air or hope that might be left. He’s lost half his limbs and most of his blood, his bloody hand on your sleeve loses its strained grip and you seem him lose all faith in his soul. This man died in an accident caused from him not stopping for an incoming train, believing he could beat it. He had tunnel vision in thinking he was fast enough, and tunnel vision is very dangerous; if wielded

Since it's his one-sided argument book, he can choose the data the reader reads and then understands. An example he uses in his book is where he writes about how dyslexia is actually an advantage, ¨Dyslexia -- in the best cases -- forces you to develop skills that might otherwise have lain dormant¨ This is just an absolute laughing stock. Gladwell tries to persuade the reader by pointing out a couple of examples, and by these means, all of the sudden a disability, that causes only 67% of sufferers to graduate with a regular diploma, is one of the greatest natural born ways to mentally strengthen a human body. Even by using his best quote from the entire chapter, still, it falls to scrutiny. Just because a couple of cases of dyslexia are pointed out, means nothing to the literal tens of millions diagnosed every year that end up being exactly how people would expect someone like that to end up. By comparing the top 1% percent of performers with dyslexia to the top 1% of performers without dyslexia, we are able to truly see the stupidity of such a claim. Dyslexia impedes a human’s ability to operate, and just because this might make them more resilient they are still impaired with this disability. When making a statement using an example, the example has to be the rule, not the

According to Dictionary.com, a rhetorical question is, “a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply.” If someone is making an assertion then they are stating something that should be assumed. So in a rhetorical question, Gladwell is making an assertion through a question. Gladwell uses several of these, “You wouldn’t wish dyslexia on your child, would you?” and, “Can a class be too small, the same way a parent can make too much money?” or the classic, “Or can you?” These are all rhetorical questions found in Gladwell’s book, which is fine, to an extent. The point of a rhetorical question is to make the reader think about what the right answer is if it’s not already given to the reader in the question, but what happens when someone abuses that power? By using a rhetorical question, Gladwell makes the reader think that his presented answer is astoundingly obvious. Gladwell uses the rhetorical question often to make the reader believe that he is