Jana Kurita
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis - Reading: Community
A. Essay- “In Search of the Good Family.” by Jane Howard
B. The main point in the essay “In Search of the Good Family,” is that people require a family. A family does not have to be just through kin-ship, but people such as colleges, neighbors, and friends.
C. Evidence:
a. A type of evidence that Howard utilizes in her opening paragraphs was pathos. She uses pathos to hijack the readers attention and make them interested in her topic. An example she uses is “Some of these others must matter a lot - to you, and if you are very lucky, to one another.” (pg 283.) The quote can grab the readers attention because every human being has a mutual caring relationship with someone. For many, that relationship would be with a friend, family member, or a significant other. By saying “we must try to transform our friends into our relatives,” Howard establishes a connection with the reader because a majoring have close friends which they would consider a family member ,allowing Howard to play off of that emotion.
b. Howard uses ethos to establish her knowledgeable tone with the audience and support her claims. Howard quotes Aristotle by talking about how people get to know each other through many encounters. By quoting Aristotle, it supports Howard’s claim that people can chose who they want to be friends with and inevitably become a part of their family. Howard talks about thevhuman need of a support system ,which is gaining as many relatives as possible. Howard uses Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s book, Slapstick, to support her idea of the benefits of gaining as many relatives as possible.
D. Rhetorical Strategies:
a. Definition: Howard defines family as “consist either of friends of the road, ascribed by chance, or friends of the heart, achieved by choice.” (pg 283.) Howard then goes on to define ascribed friends as “those we happen to go to school with, work with, or live near....Maybe they will still matter to us when we or they move away; quite likely they won’t....Unless by some chance they and we have become friends of the heart.” (pg 283.) The use of defining terms, is so the audience can understand Howard’s point of view. Howard goes on to further explain how the ideal family runs throughout the essay to further dive into the topic of family.
b. Metaphor: The metaphor, “Good families are fortresses with many windows and doors to the outer world,” is significant because it is a solid base that is open to the outside world. The quote is saying that the family has a lot of friends due to the outside contact they achieve through activities which inevitably create a more fortified family. The metaphor is used to support Howard’s concept of the importance of a families sense of care within all the members. Without that sense of care, the family would have the potential to easily be replaced or crumble due to the lack of a solid foundation.
MLA citation for essay:
Howard, Jane. "In Search of the Good Family." The Language of Composition. By Renee H. Shea, Lawerence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2008. 283-88. Print.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis – Essay: “In Search of the Good Family”
Joey Bennett
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis – Essay: “In Search of the Good Family”
A. "In Search of the Good Family" by Jane Howard
B. The essay "In Search of the Good Family," the author, Jane Howard, brings up the topic of how a family is essential to us, whether or not that is our blood family, or our family of friends, Howard makes it clear it does not matter. Howard states the qualities a "Good family" possesses, and gives deep explanations to each quality.
C. Howard has many uses of credible sources to help establish herself as a credible author, such as when she states in paragraph three, "Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." Howard uses a very well known historical figure to help the reader acknowledge that she knows what she is talking about. She also refers to the "terminology of an African tribe" in paragraph 3, to help the reader further recognize the amount of knowledge she has on the subject she is encountering. As well as creating herself as a credible person, Howard manages to grab the emotions of her readers, such as in paragraph two, when she says, "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." When Howard uses this statement, she pulls in many readers into their own experiences with close family friends.
D.Howard uses many rhetorical questions, she uses repetition, metaphors, allusions, and definition to help pull her argument together. One of Howard's most successful rhetorical questions would be in paragraph eight, "Should we not applaud and maybe imitate such ingenuity?" Clearly her answer to that question is obvious, and it makes the audience notice that if Japan is doing it, and having a success, we can too. Howard uses repetition in paragraphs eleven through twenty-two by using the phrase, "Good families..." This phrase repeats and begins to narrow the amount of good families after each repeat. Howard uses repetition to emphasize the idea that a good family requires many things. An example of when Howard uses a metaphor could be from paragraph two, "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." The idea of using complex alchemy, as a metaphor, is to reveal the idea that it takes deep processing to create a family friend. Howard uses an allusion in paragraph four, "Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." This allusion is brought up from Howard to help stabilize herself from becoming unreliable. And finally, Howard uses the rhetorical strategy of definition, to repeatedly define what a "Good family" is throughout paragraphs eleven to twenty-two.
MLA Citation
Howard, Jane. "In Search of the Good Family." 2008. The Language of Composition. Boston: Bedford, 2008. 283-88. Print.
B. The essay "In Search of the Good Family," the author, Jane Howard, brings up the topic of how a family is essential to us, whether or not that is our blood family, or our family of friends, Howard makes it clear it does not matter. Howard states the qualities a "Good family" possesses, and gives deep explanations to each quality.
C. Howard has many uses of credible sources to help establish herself as a credible author, such as when she states in paragraph three, "Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." Howard uses a very well known historical figure to help the reader acknowledge that she knows what she is talking about. She also refers to the "terminology of an African tribe" in paragraph 3, to help the reader further recognize the amount of knowledge she has on the subject she is encountering. As well as creating herself as a credible person, Howard manages to grab the emotions of her readers, such as in paragraph two, when she says, "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." When Howard uses this statement, she pulls in many readers into their own experiences with close family friends.
D.Howard uses many rhetorical questions, she uses repetition, metaphors, allusions, and definition to help pull her argument together. One of Howard's most successful rhetorical questions would be in paragraph eight, "Should we not applaud and maybe imitate such ingenuity?" Clearly her answer to that question is obvious, and it makes the audience notice that if Japan is doing it, and having a success, we can too. Howard uses repetition in paragraphs eleven through twenty-two by using the phrase, "Good families..." This phrase repeats and begins to narrow the amount of good families after each repeat. Howard uses repetition to emphasize the idea that a good family requires many things. An example of when Howard uses a metaphor could be from paragraph two, "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." The idea of using complex alchemy, as a metaphor, is to reveal the idea that it takes deep processing to create a family friend. Howard uses an allusion in paragraph four, "Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." This allusion is brought up from Howard to help stabilize herself from becoming unreliable. And finally, Howard uses the rhetorical strategy of definition, to repeatedly define what a "Good family" is throughout paragraphs eleven to twenty-two.
MLA Citation
Howard, Jane. "In Search of the Good Family." 2008. The Language of Composition. Boston: Bedford, 2008. 283-88. Print.
Michelle Roessel
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis – Essay: “In Search of the Good Family”
A. “In Search of a Good Family” Author: Jane Howard
B. In this essay, “In Search of a Good Family”, Jane Howard says that anybody can have a family. No matter who you are, you deserve a family. It doesn’t mean you need to be blood related, you could just be really close friends.
C. In paragraph 6, Howard says, “A few of my life’s most tribally joyous times, in fact, have been spent with people whom I have yet to see again.” This establishes his ethos because he earlier says that clans that don’t last have merit also. By bringing in his own experience he tells his audience that he knows what he is talking about. Since he himself has gone through such experiences where friends walk in and out of his life, he establishes his credibility.
Howard appeals to his audiences emotions when she says, “More and more I realize that everybody, regardless of age, needs to be hugged and comforted in a brotherly or sisterly way now and then.” in paragraph sixteen. By saying this she establishes her pathos because people can relate to that and it plays on peoples emotions. Mostly everyone wants to be hugged and comforted.
D. Throughout the essay Howards uses narration. Such as in paragraph eleven, “Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a founder – someone whom others cluster…” Also in paragraph twelve Howard says, “ Good families have a switchboard operator – someone who cannot help but keep track of what all the others are up to…” By using defining uncommon words, she tells the audience exactly what she means. Also in her definitions she provides examples. Along with the definition in paragraph twelve she says, “… who plays Houston Mission Control to everyone else’s Apollo.” By saying this it helps the audience compare her definition to a well-known mission.
In the second paragraph Howard ends saying, “If blood and roots don’t do the job, then we must look to water and branches, and sort ourselves into new constellations, new families.” She uses parallelism when she refers back to it in paragraph eleven. She says, “Sometimes clans based on water rather than blood harbor several such personages at one time.” By using similar words, Howard makes the audience think back on what has already been said. By doing this it allows the readers’ to see the importance of her argument, that all people need a family, blood related or not.
Work Cited:
Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "More Working Parents Play "Beat the Clock"" The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.
Rayna Chew
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis - Reading: Essay
A. “In Search of the Good Family” - author: Jane Howard
B. In the essay “In Search of the Good Family” author Jane Howard suggests that no matter who we are, because we are human, we need a family. She also states what she believes to be the traits that make up a “good family.”
C. Evidence:
a. Pathos: Beginning her essay with “call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one” strikes at the readers emotions because she states that no matter what, we need family. Her essay appeals to pathos because she points out that if our blood family were to leave us for some reason, we would transform our friends into our new family. That point ties back to her saying that we need family, no matter what we decide to call it.
b. Logos: Although Howard’s essay is mainly focused on emotions, she also uses logos when she states the ten characteristics of a good family. It is logos because society has always made it clear on what they see as acceptable traits for those to be classified as a “good family” or not. Some of the traits Howard had in her essay were hospitable and affectionate, which has always been seen as the traits of a “good family.”
D. Rhetorical Strategies:
a. Repetition: Howard repeatedly uses the phrase “Good families” in her ten characteristics of what she believes to define what good families are. The effect of repeating “Good families” is emphasizing what she sees as the traits of those good families. The use of this rhetorical strategy also allows her to go more into depth on the traits and allows her readers to better understand and connect to what she is saying.
b. Tone: Howard’s tone throughout her essay is light and conversational. When she is stating the ten traits, she has a slight informative tone while remaining lighthearted. The effect of her tone informs her readers without forcing her opinion on them.
MLA Citation:
Shea, Renee Hausmann, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "In Search of the Good Family." The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.
Mr. Soeth
English 3 AP
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis - Reading: Essay
A. “In Search of the Good Family” - author: Jane Howard
B. In the essay “In Search of the Good Family” author Jane Howard suggests that no matter who we are, because we are human, we need a family. She also states what she believes to be the traits that make up a “good family.”
C. Evidence:
a. Pathos: Beginning her essay with “call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one” strikes at the readers emotions because she states that no matter what, we need family. Her essay appeals to pathos because she points out that if our blood family were to leave us for some reason, we would transform our friends into our new family. That point ties back to her saying that we need family, no matter what we decide to call it.
b. Logos: Although Howard’s essay is mainly focused on emotions, she also uses logos when she states the ten characteristics of a good family. It is logos because society has always made it clear on what they see as acceptable traits for those to be classified as a “good family” or not. Some of the traits Howard had in her essay were hospitable and affectionate, which has always been seen as the traits of a “good family.”
D. Rhetorical Strategies:
a. Repetition: Howard repeatedly uses the phrase “Good families” in her ten characteristics of what she believes to define what good families are. The effect of repeating “Good families” is emphasizing what she sees as the traits of those good families. The use of this rhetorical strategy also allows her to go more into depth on the traits and allows her readers to better understand and connect to what she is saying.
b. Tone: Howard’s tone throughout her essay is light and conversational. When she is stating the ten traits, she has a slight informative tone while remaining lighthearted. The effect of her tone informs her readers without forcing her opinion on them.
MLA Citation:
Shea, Renee Hausmann, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "In Search of the Good Family." The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.
REHUGO Analysis - Reading
Christy Brown
Soeth
Ap English 3
January 26, 2011
REHUGO Analysis - Reading
A. “In Search of the Good Family” By: Jane Howard
B. Argument, position, and thesis:
· Argument: A family is not just those of blood relation; it is a person or group of people that are affectionate, hospitable, and can connect with one another on a much more deeper level than others around them.
· Position: The author states her position by citing her authority, through reference to known people, statistics, and anecdotes.
· Thesis: “Even if you live alone, even if your solitude is elected and ebullient, you still cannot do without a clan or tribe.”
C. Evidence:
· Pathos: “'If you're voluntarily childless and alone,' said the other Helen, who was from Pennsylvania by way of Puerto Rico, 'it gets harder and harder with the passage of time. Its stressful. That's why you need support systems.'” The author evokes your emotions and draws a mental picture that shows the outcome of an alone child who is in need of help.
· Ethos: The author presents and establishes her ethos through her use of anecdotes. By her sharing of past experiences, she is showing that she has gone through these things and is a liable, credible source.
D. Rhetorical Strategies:
· Hyperbole: “In emergencies we rush across continents and if need be oceans to their sides, as they do ours.” This exaggeration helps support Howard's thesis and shows that a family, clan, tribe, or network is someone who has your back no matter what the circumstance is.
· Comparison: “If blood and roots don't do the job then we must look to water and branches, and sort ourselves into new constellations, new families” The author compares blood, roots, water, and branches, and constellations to a family. If your family, connected by blood and roots, is not fulfilling the expectations of a "good family," you must look to others close to you for comfort, care, and affection.
Metaphor: "Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." This metaphor, connecting friendship to a slowly ripening fruit, helps make the idea more clear that friendship is an attribute that doesn't come quickly and is enhanced only by time.
Works Cited:
Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.
Robert Lawson
Mr. Soeth
January 26, 2011
English 3 AP
REHUGO Analysis-Reading: In Search of the Good Family
A. Author of essay: Jane Howard Name of essay: In Search of the Good Family
B. In this essay the authors main objective is to stress the importance of family. Howard gives ten characteristics on what makes a "clan, network, or tribe" a "good family."
C. Howard uses logos to support her argument by taking quotes from social scientist and great writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. with sayings like " human beings need all the relatives they can get - as possible donors or recievers not of love but of common decency"and extended families are " one of the four greatest inventions by Americans". Her pathos show through the text she uses such as " Their welfare must be nearly as important to you as your own. Even if you live alone, even if your solitude is elected and ebullient, you still cannot do without a clan or tribe." The tone that the words gives off tell how much family is important and how much you need them your life persuading the reader to either recconect with their own family or be glad of the clan, or clans, they have.
D. " Have not the Japanese for years had an honored, enduring - if perhaps by our standards rather rigid - custom of adopting nonrealatives to fill gaps in their families?" "Should we not applaud and maybe imitate such ingenuity" these rhetorical questions asked by Howard come off some what witty giving the reader examples off how a culture has thrived and is recognized of their family ways and values. She uses the repition of the words " good families" to say exactly what she wants more of, what she would like to see, and to show " what a human cannot live without." She gives ten examples of characteristics of what "good families" have such as a " chief" and a "switchboard operator" all to prove her main point of everyone needs a good family.
Mr. Soeth
January 26, 2011
English 3 AP
REHUGO Analysis-Reading: In Search of the Good Family
A. Author of essay: Jane Howard Name of essay: In Search of the Good Family
B. In this essay the authors main objective is to stress the importance of family. Howard gives ten characteristics on what makes a "clan, network, or tribe" a "good family."
C. Howard uses logos to support her argument by taking quotes from social scientist and great writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. with sayings like " human beings need all the relatives they can get - as possible donors or recievers not of love but of common decency"and extended families are " one of the four greatest inventions by Americans". Her pathos show through the text she uses such as " Their welfare must be nearly as important to you as your own. Even if you live alone, even if your solitude is elected and ebullient, you still cannot do without a clan or tribe." The tone that the words gives off tell how much family is important and how much you need them your life persuading the reader to either recconect with their own family or be glad of the clan, or clans, they have.
D. " Have not the Japanese for years had an honored, enduring - if perhaps by our standards rather rigid - custom of adopting nonrealatives to fill gaps in their families?" "Should we not applaud and maybe imitate such ingenuity" these rhetorical questions asked by Howard come off some what witty giving the reader examples off how a culture has thrived and is recognized of their family ways and values. She uses the repition of the words " good families" to say exactly what she wants more of, what she would like to see, and to show " what a human cannot live without." She gives ten examples of characteristics of what "good families" have such as a " chief" and a "switchboard operator" all to prove her main point of everyone needs a good family.
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