'The Fortunate Traveler': When Suresh Canagarajah

In the story “The fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class” When Suresh Canagarajah was young, he was a monolingual speaker, yet his parents were bilingual speakers. In addition to having the control of being a multilingual speaker, Canagarajah’s parents used English to communicate or discuss certain things, in order for the maid and people around them not having any clue what they were discussing about. This mystery about English leads Canagarajah to believe as a child that English was a language of secrecy, power and mystery (24). Then he realized that it was a disadvantage to the monolingual speakers, like himself. Then again, later he was adequately significant to address the issue towards that
For instance, in the story he talks about his 6th grade writing competition where he failed not because his essay was bad, but because the person who was grading the paper was more familiar with the logos writing style because he had a degree from Western Countries. He’s trying to convince the audience with his real-life experiences, because his experience enables the reader to better understand how his first language writing is different from the English writing, and how much he struggled due to the differences. Furthermore, since it’s an autobiography, there aren’t that many reliable evidence out there for him to use it, which is why he only used his experience as an evidence. In the story, he also presents the reader how the western countries prefer different writing style, and they would use deductive reasoning rather than inductive. For instance, one time he talks about how one of his articles was rejected because the editor wasn’t familiar with his style, but later he sends the same article to a different newspaper publisher, and they accepted because the editor had a degree from foreign countries like Canagarajah (35). This shows that people with related background, education prefers related writing style. In addition, his use of evidence is sufficient and reliable because he provided the readers with
In addition, Canagarajah used adequate writing techniques, and used lots of his experience as a bilingual speaker in a progressive style. It is very astonishing how Canagarajah used all the evidence from his real-life experience rather than getting it from somewhere else. Moreover, it is surprising how he had a target audience where he used specific groups of people as his audience. In such matters, Canagarajah could provide lots of evidence to influence his audience. Overall, his story is very appealing to any bilingual speaker, and it depicts the struggle of a bilingual speaker Nevertheless, his story is really persuasive for a bilingual speakers, and it shows struggle someone needs to overcome in order to become proficient at