Rhetorical Analysis Of Homeless By Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen´s tone in the essay ¨Homeless¨ shows sympathy to the homeless people. To begin, the author thinks people should think of the homeless as humans. “It has been customary to take people’s pain and lesson our own participation in it by turning it into an issue, not a collection of human beings” (Quindlen 104). This shows the tone sympathetic because the text talks about how people turn other people into problems, not other people who need help. Since the author sees the people and not the problem, she is sympathetic towards these people. Next, Quindlen thinks that people should see a person, not the homeless. “Sometimes I think we would be better off if we forgot about the broad strokes and concentrated on the details. Here is a