Rhetorical Analysis Of A Journal Entry Into The Trenches
1. Passage 1 (page[s] 170).
“At Least half of my anger at you was sheer resentment that you had done something that I knew, buried deep in my heart, I should have done. But you weren’t the cause of my joining up either.. . you merely helped trigger it and you did control the service that I chose.”
Here Juan’s Father is explaining to him why he decided to join the Mobile Infantry after he practically excommunicated Juan from the family a few years ago for doing the very same thing. Juan’s Father felt guilty and ashamed that Juan was doing something he wished he could have done. Deep down, Juan’s father knew the only way for him to find peace in his heart was to serve in the military. This directly supports Heinlein’s view that true happiness is found serving in a cause greater than oneself. …show more content…
2. Passage 2 (page[s} 22).
“So when Carl told me that he was no going straight on with school, but serve a term first, it gave me pause. He really meant it; he seemed to think it was natural and right and obvious.” Here Juan’s childhood friend Carl, tells Juan that he will be joining the Federal Service upon graduation. Heinlein uses Carl’s tone to demonstrate that the Federal Service should be an easy choice for everyone, and that serving a term, should be natural, right, and obvious to anyone. It should be this way because it is the morally right choice to serve others, and not just live for oneself. This passage is key to displaying Heinlein’s intended theme because Carl, makes the choice sound so simple and easy, like there is no question whether it is the right thing to do.
(b) Theme 2. A life of military service, produces well rounded virtuous people, unlike the common man. What Heinlein means from his implementation of this theme, is that service in a military institution has the ability to transform and reveal ordinary people to be much more responsible, and selfless individuals than the average
“At Least half of my anger at you was sheer resentment that you had done something that I knew, buried deep in my heart, I should have done. But you weren’t the cause of my joining up either.. . you merely helped trigger it and you did control the service that I chose.”
Here Juan’s Father is explaining to him why he decided to join the Mobile Infantry after he practically excommunicated Juan from the family a few years ago for doing the very same thing. Juan’s Father felt guilty and ashamed that Juan was doing something he wished he could have done. Deep down, Juan’s father knew the only way for him to find peace in his heart was to serve in the military. This directly supports Heinlein’s view that true happiness is found serving in a cause greater than oneself. …show more content…
2. Passage 2 (page[s} 22).
“So when Carl told me that he was no going straight on with school, but serve a term first, it gave me pause. He really meant it; he seemed to think it was natural and right and obvious.” Here Juan’s childhood friend Carl, tells Juan that he will be joining the Federal Service upon graduation. Heinlein uses Carl’s tone to demonstrate that the Federal Service should be an easy choice for everyone, and that serving a term, should be natural, right, and obvious to anyone. It should be this way because it is the morally right choice to serve others, and not just live for oneself. This passage is key to displaying Heinlein’s intended theme because Carl, makes the choice sound so simple and easy, like there is no question whether it is the right thing to do.
(b) Theme 2. A life of military service, produces well rounded virtuous people, unlike the common man. What Heinlein means from his implementation of this theme, is that service in a military institution has the ability to transform and reveal ordinary people to be much more responsible, and selfless individuals than the average