Howard further confirms this as she mentions how the Unitarians have “extended families” from Santa Barbara to Boston who are just like relatives to each other. - replace how with that.
letter b under evidence and analysis, is that logos, pathos or ethos?
Jochebed Ramat
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English 3AP
January 27, 2011
REHUGO Analysis: Reading – Essay
A. “In Search of the Good Family” by Jane Howard
B. In the article, Howard discusses the individual’s need for a family,
regardless of relations by blood or seclusion. She also establishes the
idea of a community by emphasizing what makes up a “good family.”
C. Evidence:
a. The author describes the time that when she had a conversation with
“the two Helens”, one of them introduced the idea of families as “support
systems” in order to aid the “voluntarily childless” individual. Howard
further confirms this as she mentions how the Unitarians have “extended
families” from Santa Barbara to Boston who are just like relatives to each
other. The need for families is stressed when Howard quotes Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr., who defines relatives “as possible donors or receivers not
of love but of common decency.”
b. Howard lists and discusses ten characteristics that make up a good
family as 1) having a “chief”, 2) having a “switchboard operator”, 3)
being just as important to their clan as well as everyone else, 4) being
“hospitable”, 5) being able to confront and discuss problems, 6)
cherishing “rituals”, 7) being “affectionate”, 8) having “a
sense of place”, 9) searching for a way “to connect with posterity”, and
10) respecting “their elders.” She proves this by contributing her own
anecdote of the importance of her blood clan to non-members and
referring to rituals as times when the community comes together to
interact with each other.
D. Rhetorical Strategies:
a. Process Analysis: Howard advises readers what to do in certain
situations concerning family to improve the sense of community
established in a group: “If our relatives are not, do not wish to be, or for
whatever reasons cannot be our friends, then by some complex alchemy
we must try to transform our friends into our relatives.” Also, she urges
the need to create families to support the individual: “We must steer
each other through enough seasons and weathers so that sooner or later
it crosses our minds that one of us, God knows which or with what
sorrow, must one day mourn the other.”
b. Allusion: Howard quotes several individuals, such as Aristotle, Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr., Martin Buber, Susanne Langer, Michael Novak, and Richard
P. Brickner as well as refers to The Moviegoer to establish more
credibility to her thesis.
MLA Citation for essay:
Howard, Jane. “In Search of the Good Family.” The Language of
Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 283-88. Print.
“the two Helens”, - watch punctuation
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letter b under evidence and analysis, is that logos, pathos or ethos?