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Three Cups Of Tea Rhetorical Analysis

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Tyler Broome

12/3/2016

AP Language and Composition

Crutcher

“Three Cups of Deceit”

Character determines incident. Incident illustrates character. This statement, though simple, can be applied to almost anything in society. In this case, with Jon Krakauer and the way he deals with the discovery and presentation of fictive information written in Greg Mortenson’s novel “Three Cups of Tea.” In “Three Cups of Deceit” the author, Jon Krakauer, is writing to uncover falsified information written in “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson.

In the work “Three Cups of Deceit” by Jon Krakauer the author is writing to expose the lies and mismanagement of Greg Mortenson’s charity the Central Asia Institute (CAI), in response to the novel Mortenson wrote permeated with lies and false heartwarming stories of what he had done to help education in some parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. One of the many lies Mortenson wrote in “Three Cups of Tea” can be seen in the excerpt from page four of “Three Cups of Deceit:” “Here, warm by the hearth, on soft pillows, snug in the crush of so much humanity, he felt the exhaustion he’d been holding at arm’s length surge up over him.” This excerpt is from a time in the “story” of “The Cups of Tea” by Jon Mortenson where he is taken in my the people of the Korphe village when he was separated from Mouzafer Ali, “The baltic …show more content…

The irony in Krakauer’s title is that the definition of deceit is “The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.” This implies that instead of a deep, meaningful story it is a story of mockery and

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