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In Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me” Alexie uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to portray books as important and impactful so that he can influence and promote individuals to read books amongst the people in his Native American community. Right from the start of the essay, Alexie begins by appealing to the audience by providing a blurb about his childhood and that his family was “living... on the Spokane Indian Reservation... [who] were poor by most standards” and that “one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another” (Alexie 110). This appeal to ethos gains the trust of the readers by letting them know that Alexie indeed did have an unprivileged upbringing. He extends his appeal by establishing amongst the readers that his family “lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear, and government surplus food” (110). He did this in order to forge an emotional connection to the readers. In the second paragraph, he once again appeals to ethos by revealing that his father went to school and was an “avid reader” (110). Alexie’s father has a passion towards reading stories and “because he [Alexie] loved his father with an aching devotion, he …show more content…
Alexie relates his life and his house as “a paragraph [and how they are] distinct from the other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north” (110). In addition, Alexie claimed that “each family member existed as a separate paragraph [and] had genetics and common experiences to link [them]” (110). Not only does this effectively show the correlation between books and the outside world, but it effectively displays how books can impact the organization of life as it demonstrates how people are linked together and how people “work together for a common purpose” (111). Alexie’s use of analogies shows that books can be impactful for real life as they can structure life for the

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