Rhetorical Analysis Of Aye And Gomorrah

Chih En Jeng

Professor R. Wood

WR 1 College Writing

11/05/2016

Aye, and Gomorrah: A Rhetorical Analysis In a fictional work titled Aye, and Gomorrah, Samuel Delany gives a first person account of the experiences that Spacers undergo. In it, Spacers are depicted as androgynous individuals who underwent the process of neutering during the onset of their adolescent period in a way that they can operate in space without experiencing the adverse impacts of the strong radiation (Delany 215). As a result of being neutered, they cannot have the capacity to engage in any act of sexual intercourse. Consequently, Spacers are selected from a set of children whose sexual reactions are hopelessly retarded during puberty, a time when most children are at

To begin with, the world is increasingly becoming a flexible and dynamic place where diversity is welcomed. A case in point is the United States and Paris, where individuals who do not have the ability to give birth are rarely face discrimination. Thus, the author mentions areas that have undergone giant steps in curbing such forms of discrimination as being worst when it comes to hostile treatment of Spacers. On the contrary, people who go for same-sex relationships are the ones who face widespread discrimination and alienation from the mainstream society, not children who do not give birth (Murphy 33). When the author talks about children who are at puberty, it is almost beats logics that such children can have the intellectual and technical capabilities to participate in space missions. In nearly all parts of the world, children are prohibited from any highly technical environment (Delany 219). They are only supposed to go to school and learn how to read and write. Another limiting factor for the above arguments is that the work is disorienting. This is because the story’s context is not clearly defined at the start. This establishes a climate of confusion, since the audience does not have the slightest idea of who a Spacer or ‘frelk’ actually