Rhetorical Analysis Essay

No More Hiding in the Corners The author Sara Mosle reminds her readers right away about an emotional massacre that took place in Newtown, Connecticut. In her article in The New York Times called, “Preparing Students for a Newtown-like disaster” she argues her point against Louie Gohmert, the Texas Congressman who suggested that all teachers should have guns. Sara has a lot of credibility for her personal thoughts and what she believes is true about the gun laws. She is aiming this article at adults, parents, and people who vote. She is trying to change people’s mind about the gun laws. Using very good examples she shows the readers to not figure out ways to hide from the gunmen or to fight back against the gunmen but to just get rid of the amount of guns given to people not qualified to have them. Sara has a lot of credibility with this topic. She can relate in many ways. Sara is a sixth grade teacher in New Jersey. She has written about public education for The New York Times, The New Yorker and Slate, and many more. Sara is a member of the first Teach for America’s corps in 1990. Ms. Mosle is also the author of her new book about a school explosion in 1937 in New London, Tex., which killed hundreds of children. With that she has a lot of credibility on this topic. She also has a daughter who is 9 years old daughter who attends a public school in New Jersey. She also wants to have her daughter protected from the gunmen. In the body of the article she uses a lot of relatable examples that all of her readers have gone through. When she was explaining the routines with the lock down drills and how all of her students react without knowing if it was a drill or if it was really happening. The kids get frightened and panic sometimes. This sets a scary picture into all the readers’ minds to make them think about what would help a situation if a gunman came into the school. Mosle uses a great example that really makes the reader think about the negativity of