Rhetorical Devices In Buried Alive

The 1960’s was home to many influential artists, these artists got their inspiration from doing heavy amounts of heavy psychedelic drugs. And sometimes, these artists die at a very young age just as their popularity and talent was at their peak. My book was about one of those artists . The book that shows this is Buried Alive, a book about Janis Joplin. The book shows the honest truth of a musician with an addictive personality who unfortunately let it run her life. Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas on January 19, 1943, at a young age, she fell in love with music and sang in her church choir. She was made fun of in high school because of her weight and her acne. In the 50’s she rebelled against the crowd in high school choosing

She uses logos to describe heroin users; “Weird and outrageous as it was. Heroin users are notorious for wallowing in the role of outlaw, the illegality, the separation from the rest of society part of the attraction in its use and, by some theories, an attraction that surpasses the appeal of the high itself.”(pg 133) This shows that Myra has been around heroin addicts other than Janis. She uses pathos to describe how people took advantage and abused her fame. That she was always left to pay for dinner or the tab at bars because she was afraid if she said no, people wouldn’t like her anymore. Janis showed ethos in her lyrics. In her song One Night Stand, she sings about how women should do what they want with their bodies.

Myra uses other rhetorical devices in her book to describe Janis as well. She uses flashback throughout the whole story. The whole book is in past tense because this was originally published in 1973, three years after Janis died. Myra uses point of view to tell her story. This book is in third person omniscient point of view, because it’s Myra’s book and she knew all of these people and knew their actions and opinions of