Rhetorical Appeals Comparison
In the story “The ‘F Word’” Firoozeh Dumas relates the struggle of being an immigrant in the United States and the difficulty of making friends in an environment where no one would learn her name. Dumas’s main purpose is to make the audience more open-minded about calling people by their name instead of nicknames. On the other side, in the text “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper” Mark Bittman argues the importance of cooking at home rather than consuming fast food. The authors of “The ‘F Word’” and “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper” use ethos, pathos and logos as rhetorical devices however; Bittman uses logos more adequately than Dumas. Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters state that ethos is based on character ethic or credibility,