Rhetorical Analysis On Let Me I Ll Go

Salman Rushdie writes an intelligent and convincing argument about migration and the idea that people root themselves in ideas rather than places. Scott Russell Sanders sees that it is not all good and disagrees with him. In his passage to counter Salman Rushdie’s viewpoint, he uses many rhetorical strategies to develop his perspective.

Imagery is one of his most influential strategies. He describes the “worst fate” in American mythology, which is to be trapped in one place forever with no way to change or escape. He uses the examples such as “in the sticks”, “unglamorous marriage”, and “played out game” to emphasize his point. People fear being in the sticks because it is distant and inaccessible, where you are forgotten. You’re excommunicated from society and no one would know or care about you. An unglamorous marriage would imply an unhappy future, since marriage is a desirable concept in which a person would have to dedicate their lives to. Fate is already determined in a played out game. A person does not have any control over it; their destinies are set in stone to carry out despairing lives. By using imagery, Sanders builds a vivid picture in the reader’s mind to play into
He recounts the devastations that the Americas have faced, such as “the Spaniards” imposition of their Old World culture to the New World, and “the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.” When Spain colonized the New World, they brought with them their European culture that clashed with the Native Americans. With history as our evidence, the destruction is well known. The Dust Bowl was the fault of applying old traditions to new lands. Scientifically proven, readers can see that by migrating and bringing their own ways without adaptation results in disaster. Together, readers can logically conclude that the outcome of moving ended up in a