A Good Reason To Look Up Rhetorical Analysis

SUMMATIVE PERFORMANCE TASK “A Good Reason To Look Up,” by Shaquille O’Neal has written a personal narrative, which is a story about events that occurred in his lifetime, about how he was teased by students in Junior High because of his height. Appearance isn’t always the key to a good life. It can be, but it is not necessarily. Instead of fighting for himself he fought others and pulled harmful pranks on them. Just because, someone did something mean to you, doesn’t mean you have to fight back. “A Good Reason To Look Up,” should not be read to people just for entertaiment, it should teach people who bully and tease others, how disrespectful it is. People who care about how they look and what people will think of them should are also people
When you talk about things that happened in the past, that is what you call a flashback, which is said in this story. He talks about his previous years in Junior High even though he is in a higher grade level. A round character is a character from the story which has many sides to his/her personality and in this case it would be the author Shaquille O’Neal. Shaquille O’Neal was uncomfortable around people and felt awkward. But then. Later on in the story, he changes, and becomes rude to other students by pranking them, which were sometimes harmful. At the end, his father teaches him many things about how mean he was and he needed to change. With a few inspiring words, Shaquille had changed and had become a true leader. Throughout the story he had many personalities due to how he felt and that is how a round character is. Specific word choice or language that is chosen by the author in order to make the writing piece more interesting is called diction. “A Good Reason To Look Up,” has words that inspire the reader and change how they might act and behave. Like in paragraphs 4, 5, and 6 in the story talk about how