Your first job will be to determine Foer's argument. Boil his argument down to one sentence. Write that sentence anywhere on the article handout. THINK: How does Foer make this same argument in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close?Next, go back through the article and annotate the strategies Foer employs to convince his readers to accept and embrace his point of view.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: THE STUDY OF RHETORIC INVOLVES FINDING THE WAY A SPEAKER/WRITER/ARTIST CHANGES THE BEHAVIOR OR OPINION/BELIEF OF HIS AUDIENCE.You can use the words pathos, ethos, and logos OR, and this might be better, explain what Foer accomplishes in the margins in your own words. It is one thing to recognize ethos; it is another to explicate how/why Foer employs the ethical/character strategy. The further you go at home, the less you will have to do in class on Monday.
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