Rhetorical Analysis: “I remember the wind whistling with snowflakes in it down Woodward Avenue in Detroit as I looked for a warm place to sit and contemplate the future year of 1967.” The author’s diction here shows an underlying meaning of the text: Time only goes forward, and that time goes too fast. The author’s purpose here is to show the reader that one should always look to the future and not contemplate on the past, because time will only progress and go forward. Argument:
“I remember the mists swirling above the Knotty Room in Monte Rio in 1974 while Pat and Jeff and I drank Rhoda’s bad coffee and looked out to the huge redwood trees bending in an awesome wind announcing the torrential winter rains of 1975.” The author’s diction