Post by Ren Dunning on Aug 29, 2022 17:05:35 GMT -5
Rose utilizes the rhetorical devices diction, point of view, and ethos to deliver his message of the importance and effect of your environment in school. Rose details the ups and downs of his high school career at Our Lady of Mercy. He was mistakenly placed in vocational education and for two years was surrounded by a draining and neglected environment. Rose describes how the classes were dead ends and teachers either not fit for the job, or unmotivated and uncaring. He describes how his classmates were not very bright and were riddled in trouble. Without directly saying it, Rose gives the message that he does not belong in vocational education. This is discovered because he utilizes diction, integrating advanced words and showing awareness through his observations and theories of his classmates. Rose utilizes his position in the point of view to show that these realizations are older, and that he has advanced in life and is looking back on the times. Rose recalls "I now know...but then" (323, Rose) and reveals that he's a teacher, saying "many of the students I teach today..." (324,Rose) He additionally uses personal pronouns to tell that he is involved in the educational field, including "...that we've created an educational system..." (323, Rose) Through this point of view, Rose involves an ethos appeal. He gently suggests that he has been through hell and back and that even in the present he is a part of the educational system and that his points on the importance and effect of your in environment in school are honest and real.