All authors use rhetoric to influence their readers through the use of words in a certain tone and style. Rhetoric helps individuals create a self identity and communicate it with others by creating a bond between the audience and author.Authors use rhetoric to help create an identity and show it to others, the influence from other people on oneself is what makes a person themselves. There are three texts that do a great job at showing this, those texts are: “My Name,””On the Sidewalk Bleeding,” and “The Things I've Lost.” These texts are all full of rhetoric with the goal of informing the audience of creating a self identity.
In the excerpt “My Name,” Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a girl named Esperanza. Esperanza deeply dislikes her name…show more content… Andy was a boy who was a member of the Royal gang and wore a Royal jacket, which was enemies with the Guardian gang. Two members of the Guardian gang walked past him to realize he was bleeding out and walked away because they would get in trouble for helping a member of the opposing gang. Andy's identity was not an innocent human in this scenario, but rather a Royal gang member. The author uses imagery to connect to the audience, he describes scenes in detail that let the reader picture and imagine what actually occurred. This creates a deeper emotional bond that communicates the identity of being affiliated with others with the reader. Hunter states “The boy lay bleeding in the rain. He was sixteen years old. He wore bright purple silk jacket. Across the back were the words, “The Royals,” and this text allows the reader to picture Andy and understand his identity that was built from his affiliation with a gang. Andy's affiliation with a gang is what covers his identity, his true self is discovered in the text to just be covered by his connection with the
