A Rhetorical Analysis Of Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon is a Black man who was born and raised in the South, his experience growing up was one filled with many obstacles. Throughout his story his use of the appeals help to make his point. His use of chronological order in his article create a kind of consistency that is appealing to the reader, as he tells us of his whole life and his most important moments in it. He effectively appeals to our pathos through several major points of sadness, such as when his own mother pointed a gun at him. Many times as he grows up, there ar several questionable choices he makes thus appeal to our logos, which is an interesting way to go about this. I recognized a lot of what I have experienced growing up in the black community, for example the never