Ryan Dalsemer
Tow #5
The World in
2050 book analysis
This book, entitled “The World in 2050”, is an analytical
article written by Christina Nuta, an author for the website “articles.com”.
Through her purpose of explain how our world will transform and take shape in
the year 2050, she uses many rhetorical devices to convey what she want us to
understand. The type of rhetoric she uses is the use of rhetoric questions. She
first starts out the article with three simple questions to help the reader get
into the topic, “What picture do
you have of the future? Will life in the future be better, worse or the same as
now? What do you hope about the future?” The use of these rhetoric questions
allow the reader to have the topic ready in his or her mind while he or she
reads the article. Also, with the use of rhetoric questions, the author implies
that the topic of the article is going to be centered around the three questions
that start off the article. The rhetoric questions are similar to a topic
sentence. Also, she ends with a question. The author writes at the end of the
article, “by 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people and
decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they have.
Scientists will be able to do these things - but should they?” This use of
ending with a rhetoric question allows the reader to think a little bit more on
the topic. The article suddenly changes from someone telling you information, to
a personal decision. After reading the ending question the reader should ask
him or herself, “Do I believe these things should happen?” With this rhetoric
question there is no right or wrong answer, there is only your answer, and your
beliefs on the topic.
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