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Rhetorical Analysis Of We Are Not All Created Equal By Stephen Marche

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Stephen Marche wrote an argument trying to argue the point that we as Americans are not as equal as we have always believed we were. Marche is a mainstream writer and a novelist with his first novel published in 2005. Many of his articles can often be read in the New York Times and the Atlantic. In his article “We Are Not All Created Equal: The Truth about the American Class System” he gives valid points and details to inform us the truth behind what we think we see. This is an interesting article to analyze because he has many facts and historical information that makes you think about the topic he chooses and understand his point of view. In his article, he speaks about the reality behind the American class system. He also brings s up …show more content…

It is obvious the main argument was that American are not as equal as we believe to be. This point is made multiple time through the article with serval forms of evidence and statistics. But the introduction has no clear way of it being introduce. His opening statement was, “There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we imagine the world should be and that nobody can accept them” made a clear point. But the problem is there was no way it was introduced. While its quick and gets to the point it is just a statement rather than some form of …show more content…

The assumed audience is Americans in general since the events he described are different problems in America today. There are mentions to Italy and Great Britain but only used as a comparison to our social class systems. The ethos of the article is possibly the use of modern studies and his quotes and statistics that he has citations and references from. The logic is a harder one as it is just his many points of view. He has so many that there leaves little room for doubts and counter arguments. Then the pathos is the history portion of his information. He wants people to understand that our ancestors went through this order class and it didn’t work out very well for them. He wants us to feel emotional just knowing that this didn’t work out correctly the first time and we should have hope to do better. This is not very effective part as the points of this are hard to find and unclear but still are helpful to the overall

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