Pat Conroy is a man that wrote many books that showed the way life really is. These books included crude language and violence, both occur in the real the real world. A school in Charleston, West Virgin sent him a letter explaining the reasoning why a book of his was banned from their school; this lead to the “Conroy Letter”. In the “Conroy Letter”, Pat Conroy applied many rhetorical strategies in order to get the message, you can’t revolve literature around the way you want life to be, but the way the world really is, across. At the very beginning of his letter he starts off by using sarcasm when he refers to his last works as “filthy” and “vomit-inducing”. This device shows that Conroy takes no offence to the matter, but he finds it humors