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Rhetorical Analysis Of Death By Huttman

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Huttmann’s argues in this essay that the person should have the right to choose to live or die if they are suffering from a fatal illness. And the author’s purpose within this essay is both personal and social. The essay starts with one of the audience of the Phil Donahue show shouting “ murderer” after Huttmann shares her story about mac , a cancer patient. Huttmann wrote this interesting introduction so she could draw the audience and show the effect of feeling of justification throughout the latter portion of this essay. That introduction leaves the readers curiosity about why are the people calling her mean names. When she says “Did we really believe that we had the right to force ‘life’ on a suffering man who had begged for the right to die” she is indirectly stating the justice of her act and that she had done nothing wrong. By neglecting to push the button and calling a “code blue”, she brought peace upon a man that was suffering. …show more content…

All of the senses are addressed in this story, you can taste the bitter sorrow felt by both Huttmann and Mac , and hear Mac’s screaming from the pain. Irony is also found throughout the story because of the idea that we do not have the right to die. Death is something that is unavoidable, no body can escape from death. So some doctors are trying to act ‘god’ , how? Simply because they took away the ability to die as we please!.

Huttmann uses many appeals, the most obvious being to pathos, and of course logos because honestly, it is really logical that a person should be allowed to die at some circumstances. She also uses emotional appeals , when she tells her audience about her struggles to accept Mac dying in front of

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