Rhetorical Analysis Of Bernard Roth's Achievement Habit '

Morgan Freeman once said, “Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance” (Freeman). One must be silent in order to collect thoughts and determine what a person should establish to hold meaning in his life. Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, Bernard Roth has written a self- help book connected to letting life happen. The Achievement Habit is about achieving dreams and improving the self and “directly gain understanding and experience about personal issues that matter to them” (Roth). Roth, in chapter 1, “Nothing is What You Think It Is,” argues that people establish their own meaning and others should not judge people too soon, or ever. While he does not use logos, Roth’s use of other rhetorical appeals such as ethos and pathos establish that everyone gives everything its own meaning.
Ethos is one of Roth’s strongest appeals in his writing, as he writes like a wise grandpa. In Chapter 1, Roth establishes his sense of authority and trust as a writer. “We have the power to alert our perception, revising perceptions that bring us down and enhancing those that help us” (Roth 15). In this quote, Roth uses we and us to show he is trustworthy in a way saying he is just another human being that went through stuff and is still learning lessons. The tone Roth uses in his writing is a

Even if Roth says there is no permanent record, if someone gets a felony, it will stay on his or her permanent record. For example, if a man takes another man’s life and gets charged with manslaughter, according to Roth’s belief we are just supposed to say it’s okay and let him go without putting a mark on his record. The end this can show you that Roth never used facts, nor did he use data in his writing, it was just his