From the beginning, Kristof begins his argument by
addressing President Obama and the government for not exploiting sweatshops as
much as they should be. While Kristof is encouraging the promotion of
sweatshops, he also makes sure it flows with his overall purpose of his essay.
He uses many different forms of evidence to compel each of his arguments
together so he stays on topic. The rhetorical strategies used made all of his
ideas flow in collaboration of each other. In addition, there were strengths
and weaknesses throughout the essay that Kristof used for the audience to fully
understand his ideas. In this essay,
Kristof’s purpose was understood because of the rhetorical strategies and
situations that were used.
Kristof’s purpose was for people to understand, although
sweatshops aren’t the best jobs to have, it still provides a job and
opportunity for those that are living in dumps. I believe his audience was more
towards people of high power like the president, government officials and high
authority of people in other countries. He stayed true to his topic throughout
his essay and maintained the same tone. The examples that he used made the
argument more relatable to him and for people that aren’t in situations like this,
they are able to put themselves in their shoes.
His means of persuasion mostly used logos and pathos. He
used facts about manufacturing and information about the issues in other
countries regarding sweatshops. All throughout the essay, he possessed personal
information about others who have ben in situations. One of his personal
connections was him living in East Asia with his wife and being able to watch
the living standards increase because of sweatshop jobs that were being
offered. He wants the audience to feel sympathy for those who aren’t able to
live like how others are living.
When using those methods of persuasion to get his audience
more concerned about his issue, he also used different rhetorical strategies.
Repetition was used in every part of the essay when he was speaking about
sweatshops and how it is better than living in a dump. He also used similes in
his essay, “This is a Dante-like vision of hell”. In addition, allusions were used when he
referenced the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries for others to comprehend the
seriousness of this situation. I believe he used these strategies for the
audience to make their own judgment on the impact that sweatshops can make on
poor countries and poor people.
From the beginning to the end of this essay, Kristof displayed
strengths and weakness. One of his strengths was using personal experiences and
situations to show how this is real and is happening all over the world.
Another would be the amount of facts used about the issues in other countries
regarding poverty and sweatshops. A weakness would be him putting his personal
opinion in and saying that he wouldn’t want to work in a sweatshop. He
shouldn’t be able to promote something and then wouldn’t even want to do it
himself. Another weakness would be how he addressed the President of the United
States but didn’t address anybody else from the countries he was speaking
about. One person can’t save the world, therefore for every country that was
spoken on, their high power should have been lectured about it too.
In Kristof’s essay, he used many different rhetorical
strategies in order for the audience to get a full comprehension of what he was
trying to achieve. His purpose was clear and he stayed true to his topic the
whole time. His use of logos and pathos made
the essay more concrete and reliable for those who are on the outside looking
in. Also, his use of similes, repetition and allusions tied all of the aspects
of the essay together. Although there were strengths, there were also
weaknesses that the essay contained. All in all, I believe the thesis of the
essay was clear and he got his purpose across to his audience.
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