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Rhetorical Analysis One Amazing Thing
In One Amazing thing, Author Chitra Divakaruni
wrote about Lily and Mark to illustrate how the Chinese cultural embraces their
beliefs on education and talents Chinese children have. I think the author was
trying to demonstrate to the audience that the Chinese cultural has high standards
for their children to be the best in whatever they do especially in their education.
However, having high standards aren’t enough; children have to want to it as
much as the children do. In addition one
tactic used to demonstrate this point was telling the story like a narrative as
if lily was telling the story.
Divakaruni, Chitra. One Amazing thing. Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni, 2009. Print.
Rhetorical Analysis In beyond Learning at School
Author
Wen Ma, In Beyond Learning at School: one
Chinese Adolescent’s educational Journey, show that Chinese students are
high achievers in short time amount of time because of how the Chinese people
grew up. The Chinese learned and took philosophers, like Confucian, thoughts
about the “learner” and the “learned”. The ides in which teacher take their role
was learned and the students take their role as the learner to grasp everything
the “learned” learned. I think the author was trying to educate the audience of
why such people like the Chinese do what they do with their education. Their ability
to grasp has been taught and learned decades ago. Additionally the author used
logos, statistics to educate us about the Chinese.
Ma, Wen. "Beyond Learning
Literacy At School: One Chinese Adolescent's Educational Journey." American Secondary
Education 37.3 (2009): 52-69. Academic Search Elite. Web. 6 Nov. 2012.
It is an interesting topic. I would like to read it, because I don’t really have much background about the education over there.
ReplyDeleteAziz
This is a very interesting topic because it can either be positive or negative. Some might believe the parents do a good job in putting pressure on their kids with their education, but I personally do not agree with it. Although it can help them with their future, it can also affect them. They might not be able to live their life like a normal teen because they are too stuck on studying all the time.
ReplyDeleteLe'shel: I agree that the students should want to be successful for themselves because if they don't then they will not put the effort to do well.
ReplyDeleteYazeed : I agree , I felt that the author was focusing on how China has a high stander on education , how they care a lot , and how they want their kids to be the best . And as le'shl said : the students should want to be successful themselves , but I guess that could be hard . Playing and watching tv is much more fun for the kids than worrying about being successful , but China is always different.
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