Rhetorical Analysis Of Bill Gates By Gladwell
Another technique Gladwell used is rhetorical questions. In an example, Gladwell uses Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men, to prove the 10,000-hour rule. Gladwell first starts off by writing how Bill Gates was born into a wealthy family who was able to enroll him in a prestigious private school. At Lakeside Private School, Gates was exposed to the rare opportunity of having a computer time sharing terminal in the 7th grade in 1968. Gladwell identifies more opportunities Bill Gates had and states, “And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common? They gave Bill Gates extra time to practice”(Gladwell 54). This quote is an example of a rhetorical question because after stating the many and rare opportunities Bill Gates
had, he asks a question, not to receive an answer, but to engage the reader to think about what he said and the obvious answers being “time”; he then answers the question himself. This is persuasive because it emphasizes his point and connects readers back to his thesis about opportunities to conclude themselves that Bill Gates was only successful because of the opportunities that were presented to him.
had, he asks a question, not to receive an answer, but to engage the reader to think about what he said and the obvious answers being “time”; he then answers the question himself. This is persuasive because it emphasizes his point and connects readers back to his thesis about opportunities to conclude themselves that Bill Gates was only successful because of the opportunities that were presented to him.