Immigrants Are Here To Steal Your Jobs Rhetorical Analysis
In the satirical piece “Immigrants are Here to Steal Your Jobs,” the author adopts a disgusted tone to convince her audience that the logic behind the theory that immigrants are here to steal jobs is flawed.
The author begins with including facts, which are fake, but due to the satirical nature of her piece, help support her argument and demonstrate her tone. She opens the piece by saying, “According to a study recently released from Royue Staric, a demographic center, it turns out that immigrants are here to steal your jobs! The study shows that 0% of immigrants surveyed said they had “come for a job”.” Through including these “facts,” the author is able to emphasize her point that immigrants are not here to steal jobs because she over-exaggerates …show more content…
In the first paragraph, the author italicizes the words “actually say” and “clearly” to emphasize the narrator’s ignorance. The use of “actually” and “clearly” describe the narrator as ignorant and arrogant, since they imply that the narrator believes he knows more about the topic than a demographic center. The italicization of the words emphasizes the narrator’s ignorance, through bringing the reader’s attention to these words, which then allows the reader to realize the ignorance of the narrator. This demonstration of the narrator’s ignorance displays the author’s tone of disgust because when someone, in this case, the narrator, is portrayed as ignorant, it implies that the author is not in favor of those who share a similar mindset, thus disgusted. The author uses this combination of style and diction in the third paragraph as well. In the third paragraph, the author italicizes the word “might.” The word “might” connotes doubt, which supports the narrator’s ignorance, since he is not entirely sure that the reason Brett was fired was his lack of medical training. The italicization emphasizes this doubt and makes the narrator’s uncertainty seem even more ridiculous. This doubt suggests the author’s disgust towards people who think like the narrator since the author makes a point to further ridicule the narrator’s
The author begins with including facts, which are fake, but due to the satirical nature of her piece, help support her argument and demonstrate her tone. She opens the piece by saying, “According to a study recently released from Royue Staric, a demographic center, it turns out that immigrants are here to steal your jobs! The study shows that 0% of immigrants surveyed said they had “come for a job”.” Through including these “facts,” the author is able to emphasize her point that immigrants are not here to steal jobs because she over-exaggerates …show more content…
In the first paragraph, the author italicizes the words “actually say” and “clearly” to emphasize the narrator’s ignorance. The use of “actually” and “clearly” describe the narrator as ignorant and arrogant, since they imply that the narrator believes he knows more about the topic than a demographic center. The italicization of the words emphasizes the narrator’s ignorance, through bringing the reader’s attention to these words, which then allows the reader to realize the ignorance of the narrator. This demonstration of the narrator’s ignorance displays the author’s tone of disgust because when someone, in this case, the narrator, is portrayed as ignorant, it implies that the author is not in favor of those who share a similar mindset, thus disgusted. The author uses this combination of style and diction in the third paragraph as well. In the third paragraph, the author italicizes the word “might.” The word “might” connotes doubt, which supports the narrator’s ignorance, since he is not entirely sure that the reason Brett was fired was his lack of medical training. The italicization emphasizes this doubt and makes the narrator’s uncertainty seem even more ridiculous. This doubt suggests the author’s disgust towards people who think like the narrator since the author makes a point to further ridicule the narrator’s