Rhetorical Analysis of Two Texts
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Rhetorical Analysis of Two Texts
Danticat’s main claim in Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work” is that artists who have immigrated to other countries are at liberty to witness the tragedy, poverty, violence, and oppression back in their country. In the deeply rooted book, Edwidge Danticat reflects on exile and art. She examines what it truly means to be an immigrant artist that is in crisis. Danticat uses various rhetorical analyses in the text regarding rhetorical elements, including pathos and ethos. Pathos is evidenced in the ways she uses various characters to appeal to the audience to feel sympathy for her. She does this by talking about her undocumented aunt who died of Aids while staying in Miami. Ethos speaks to the authority and credibility. Danticat mentions various statistics by saying that Louis and Numa were two of the thirteen who returned to Haiti from the United States to fight the guerilla war. As regards her writing style, Danticat’s writing is clear and crisp. It is reminiscent of what good essay writers should desire to be. This is not just another writer writing a book for its sake, but rather, it details the suffering of immigrant artists. As regards structure, Danticat writes marvelously and is a blend of history, anecdotes, and significant reflections without converting the writer to a victim or misunderstanding them. The text represents the immigrant voice in that Danticat writes from inside Haiti. The way the recollections show, her aim is not to remake an actual Haiti but rather recreate it. Factors including age, color, race, gender and economic status impact Haiti immigrants in the United States. They face barriers ranging from communication barriers, to violence, lack of jobs, and exclusion. As an immigrant, Danticat grapples with embraced Haiti culture once she came to the United States. Although she left Haiti, she is defined by the pace and she does not want to keep that part of her life forgotten. As a writer, she has a strong desire to break the barriers of most writers and write about what most people are afraid to write about- the torture of Haiti people. The main themes in Danticat’s essay include poverty, violence, tragedy, and oppression.
Danticat’s short story “Without inspection” follows the love story of two undocumented Haitian immigrants that are travelling via boat to Miami. The story defines the sense of loss and vulnerability that people face in an attempt to escape the sea and start a new life. The text showcases immigrant voice by showing how writers of color never seem to excel in New York than back in their homecountry, Haiti. Immigrants are impacted by socioeconomic status and gender because, just like Danticat, they are not financially stable and have to work twice as hard to prove they are excellent writers because of their race and origin.
The main similarities between Danticat’s works “Without Inspection” and “Create Dangerously; The Immigrant Writer at Work” is that they both talk about the struggles of black people, particularly Haiti people in diaspora. Without Inspection is about the story of two undocumented people that are travelling by boat, in the former text, Danticat talks about her undocumented aunt that succumbed to Aids while living in Miami. Together both texts by Danticat emphasize the immigrant voice by bringing to light jaw-breaking actions side by side. She tells the stories in both texts from the gut.
After studying Danticat’s works, I would describe her voice as fierce and piercing because she does not mince or waste works. Danticat rarely cloaks her ideas in layers of metaphor, yet every system she writes has a persuasive and lyrical quality. After reading this text, the question that lingers in my voice is that immigrant workers think about the issues they left in their homeland or forget about them once they get an opportunity to relocate. While many people will have many conflicting viewpoints concerning their immigrant writers, one thing is for sure; they need all the support they can get.
