Everyday Use Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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Hook. In the passage “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, one of our characters named Wangero uses different strategies to try to convince her mother to get one of her grandma's quilts. Throughout the passage Wangero argues with her mother because she wants the quilt that her grandmother made which she has denied in the past. This turns out to be a problem since her mother wants to give the quilts to Wangero’s sister which is named Maggie for when she gets married and Wangero doesn’t like this idea at all. Wangero thinks Maggie shouldn’t receive the quilts since she will use it for everyday use and they will get destroyed whereas Wagnero wants to use it to hang up. Throughout this essay you’ll see what strategies Wangero use to convince her mom and why it ultimately fails, and you’ll be able to understand the theme or larger message of the passage.

The rhetorical devices that Wangero decides to use mainly is pathos. We can see an example of Wangero using pathos in line 9 where she says “Imagine! she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom.” This example shows pathos by evoking the readers with a feeling of ???. The next strategy Wangero Buses to try to convince her mom is text structure. The text structure that she mainly uses is compare and contrast and can be seen throughout the whole passage but one example is in line 14 stating “But they’re priceless! She was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. ”Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they’d be in rags, Less than that.” This example shows her comparing how her sister would use it to the way she would use it. Wangero feels like she deserves the quilts because she would hang them up and take care of them where Maggie would put them on her bed where they would get destroyed easily. This shows compare and contrast by