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Rhetorical Analysis Of Accomplice With My Father

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The audience is likely to be convinced by the author's rhetorical approach because she develops credibility since she has experience on how it feels not being able to connect with a parent but at the end of the day being able to perceive through the challenge and eventually getting along with her father and no longer seeing him as an adversary but more as an accomplice with her father. 2) The tone of the author is appropriate to the audience because she is enthusiastic about trying to get along with her father even though they are almost exact opposites. In the story you never hear the main character say you know what I give up on my father we are never going to get along I hate my life. No but what the main character does do is that she gets out of her way to try to have a deeper relationship with her father. 3) …show more content…

This is shown when she refers to firearms as little death sticks also when her father starts shooting some birds with his BB gun and he says that it's an American pastime, like baseball and apple pie then the main character says that she prefers baseball and apple pie. After all it does make sense that the main character would lean towards her argument when she is fighting with her dad over any topic, after all it is human nature to try to be

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