Rehugo - Articles

Bryan Mai

Mr. Soeth

Period 2

English 3 AP

February 16, 2011

REHUGO Analysis: Current Events/Opposing Articles

A. 1. Book Banning Protects Family Values- Rebecca Hagelin

2. Teachers Should Prepare for Book Challenges- Sharon Cromwell

B. Articles—see citations attached

C. Both articles have different perspectives towards the decoding of old text reflecting on the new generations. Both the author’s argument addresses their point whether it is approving the banning of certain books because of the language written in the text, or preventing the banning of books because they have historical moments in them. The first article addresses that banning books would be more tolerable due to the fact that families do have morals towards certain words that have different meanings now than before while the second article indicates that books should be allowed in schools or libraries because writers back then wanted readers of today to know what it was like to be called certain names.

D. Evidence:

1. a. Logos: Hagelin attacks the prompt by stating her personal opinion about why certain books should be gone. She gives a statistic of the percentage of students who read books are not reading because it has some sort of knowledge, but the book is full of garbage. Aside from that, she goes into example with the little girl and her mother attending a library to pick out a book. The mother, not realizing that the little girl had picked a book believed that the book she has chosen had some sort of academic standard except it was full of sexual words.

b. Pathos: Hagelin gives her personal opinions about why useless books should be terminated. She states that books that deal with sexuality should not be tolerated in schools. She also goes on stating that children who read those kind of books nearly learn nothing as they are reading. She puts herself into the shoes of parents who have children reading books with sexuality and believes it is not what parents want their children to be reading.

2. a. Ethos: Giving a way of professionalism, Cromwell goes into why teachers should be aware that certain books are being put away or being changed. She goes into why districts are banning certain books but teachers want to know why. Some teachers believe that their students should hear about what it was like to be treated with verbal slurs in the past.

b. Pathos: Cromwell gives her opinion in her article expressing the facts about book bannings and how that ruins books quickly. Although it may have some words that reflect on racial slurs, she believes it is something everyone needs to know about because it did happen. History cannot be hidden, but yet expressed is what is summarized in her article.

E. Rhetorical Strategies

1. A. Hagelin stars off with the rhetorical question, “ why is book banning necessary to public schools?” Her article goes through many different possibilities to answer what she is asking. She wants readers to know what is really happening in schools as well as the public. She also includes questions reflecting her rhetorical question to break down her statements in her article.

B. Cromwell uses comparing and contrasting when it comes to her points in the article. She first addresses stating how book banning is becoming a worldwide situation and gives reason why that is occurring. Then she goes into her own argument about why it shouldn’t be happening due to just racial slurs and words conflicting family morals.

Word Cited:

Hagelin, Rebecca . "Book Banning Protects Family Morals." Opposing view points. Rebecca Hagelin, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. .

Cromwell, Sharon. "Teachers Should Prepare For Book Challenges." Book Bannine. Sharon Cromwell, n.d. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. .