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Rhetorical Analysis Of Corn Pone Opinion By Mark Twain

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1. Paraphrasing: Paragraph 1: Mark Twain speaks about his encounter with a “… gay and impudent and satirical and delightful young black man…/”, who he believes to have a fine passion and energy. Twain also believed that the black African American was the greatest orator in America. Paragraph 2: Twain speaks about how the African American man would occasionally stop his preaching and begin imitating a bucksaw noise. He did this because it kept the master from coming outside to see if the slaves were working. This happen whilst Twain a young lad, was sitting on the open window in the lumber room listening to the African American mans stop start preaching. Paragraph 3: The author, Mark Twain reveals his point of view on the statement the African American philosopher made about “… man not being independent, and cannot afford views which might interfere with his bread and butter.”, he believes that the philosophers statement is logical, but lacks much detail. Paragraph 4: Mark Twain believes that people’s independent opinions are not based upon any field of matter that is projected into the field of peoples notice and …show more content…

Twain suggest through a series of examples that a trend related to that of the Hoopskirt, the wine glasses, and etc, are based off of one persons who could be promoting the trend leading to many others following along, but when a trend has been out for long it starts to vanish due to the fact of new upcoming trends and the lack of promoting the trend. This supports the argument that Twain was trying to make throughout the whole essay that people conform to trends without any logical reasoning whatsoever, and due to the fact that many people conform to new trends it increases the chances of outside influences “…pouring in upon us…/” causing old trends to die out and new trends to

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