The Passage From The Horizontal World By Debra Marquart

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North Dakota Road Trip The passage from The Horizontal World by Debra Marquart’s 2006 memoir is all about growing up in North Dakota and knowing the land around it. She is describing one of her memories when she was growing up in North Dakota. She relates to TV news anchors and really anyone who may know some of the geography of North Dakota such as the residents. Talks very highly of North Dakota’s geography and how great it is to live and grow up there, so she is trying to tell everyone why they should live there. Marquardt talks through her own memory and expands on the fact that she lived and went through what she is speaking about she demonstrates Ethos, Logos, and Tone. Divine passage which Marquardt presents and effectively shows the usage of Ethos. She brings up some history of the land that is North Dakota to help get her point across. She says “Is was Edwin James who dubbed the area between the Mississippi and the Rockies the Great American Desert, an indignity from which the region has struggled to recover ever since”. This quote from Marquardt demonstrates her knowledge of North Dakota, also that she has taken time to look into this topic further. This all proves that she is very creditable …show more content…

Through crafty word choice and well thought out writing she points out some logistical examples that have to deal with North Dakota. She says “TV news anchors often hail from this part of the world”. That is mean in the sense that it is a small rural state that not many people hear about. This quote points out the true logic of America, and the people that small, and maybe even boring places just do not get the recognition that other places might get. If they can not even get Tv reporters there how is the world really suppose to know what this place is all about that is what Marquardt is trying to bring to our attention that North Dakota is more that just a small boring place that never gets talked

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