"For Love"

“For Love”

Love is an emotion that brings about mystery. It cannot be explained without ones opinion being interjected within the explanation. Throughout “Against Love”, Kipnis portrays love as a burden or obligation between couples. She speaks of a give and take relationship in the sense of “If you love me, you’ll do what I want—or need, or demand—and I’ll love you in return.” Kipnis also expresses that “love is obtained” when one’s life is filled with demands that contain the word “can’t”. This is not how love should be understood to be.

Love is uncontrollable. It makes one vulnerable and opens up one’s heart giving another the opportunity to “get inside” and break it or cherish it. Love should not be considered as an obligation but a goal that one is striving for. In marriage, love is the bond that keeps couples together. As said in Ephesians 5:31-33, “31 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Love, in this passage is explained to be an emotion held for one’s spouse just as God loves the church. When the full extent of love is attained, the two become one, embodying what God has called them to be.

Notes on Rhetoric

An Example of Rhetoric from Literature

• Rhetoric is not limited to nonfiction
• The Illiad- shows example of rhetoric through the speech of Priam in order to pursuade Achilles to allow him to reclaim his son's body
• Priam uses ethos through portraying himself as an aging father
• Priam uses pathos by referring to his own father and how his father still has a chane to his son (Achilles) allive
• He uses logos by appealing to Achilles through reason "when he offers 'ransom' "
  

Arrangement

• organized five-part structure for a speech
• Introduction- (exordium) beginning a web
• -->draws readers into the text by showing their interest
• Narration- (narratio)
• -->provides factual information and background material on the subject
• -->detail used in this section depends on the audience's knowledge of the subject
• -->often appeals to pathos
• Confirmation- (confirmatio)
• -->contains the most specific and concrete detail in the text
• -->makes strongest appea to logos
• Refutaion- (refutatio)
• -->addresses the counterargument
• -->counterargument's appeal is largely to logos
• Conclusion (peroratio)
• -->brings all the writer's ideas together
• Sandra Day O'Connor and Roy Romer follow the model
• -->ethos is conveyed through her position
• -->in the narration of both speeches, authors provide background info including facts

Patterns of Development

• Purpose asuggests a methos of organization or arrangement
• Narration- refers to telling a story or recounting a series of events
• can be based on personal experience or on knowledge gained from reading
• chronology governs narration
• Walker uses a step-by-step method
• Description- closely allied with narration because both include specific details
• emphasizes the senses by painting a picture
• used to establish mood and atmosphere
• George Orwell uses emotionally charged language
• Process Analysis explains how something works, how to do something, or something was done
• many self-help books are essentially process analysis
• clarity is key
• Exemplification is providing a series of examples-facts, specific cases, or instances
• turns a general idea into a concrete one
• Aristotle taught that examples are a type of logical proof- induction
• Comparison and Contract- juxtaposing two things to highlight their similarities and differences
• can be subject-by-subject or point-by-point
• Classification and Division- sorting materials or ideas into major categories
• distinctive way of breaking down a larger idea or concept into parts
• Definition- defining a term is often the first step in a debate or disagreement
• some cases the definition is only a paragraph to clarify terms
• other cases the purpose of the entire essay is to establish a definition
• Cause and Effect- analyze causes that lead to a certain effect or the effects that result from a cause is a foundation for an arument
• recognize that there may be more than one cause
• often signaled by a why in the title or opening paragraph

Pride and Prejudice: Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos

Ethos

1) " I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself." (170)

2) "You have said quite enough, madam. I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been. Forgive me for having taken up so much of your time, and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness." (172)

Logos

" '...My faults according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! But perhaps,' added he, stopping in his walk, and turning towards her, 'these offenses might have been overlooked, and not your pride been hurt by my honest confession of the scruples that had long prevented my forming any serious design...' " (171)

Pathos

"The tumult of her mind was now painfully great. She knew not how to support herself, and from actual weakness sat down and cried for half an hour. Her astonishment, as she reflected on what had passed, was increased by every review of it." (172)

Appeals to Ethos, Legos, and Pathos

Ethos->
An example of Ethos would be a Volleyball coach who previously played at a division 1 college. If that person were to coach at our high school, it would be assumed that he/she would have the knowledge and experience of the sport.

Logos->
An example of Logos would be "It is true that the President has made several mistakes; however, he has also changed our world for the better"

Pathos->
In example of Pathos would be one of the lines from Romeo and Juliet.
"As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heavin
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night." (Romeo)

Similarities between Fast Food Nation and The Great Gatsby

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two works that share a few things in common contrary to major belief. In Fast Food Nation, companies and higher people seem to be making great profit through basically cheating mankind. For example, meatpacking companies are buying cattle for a lot less than they are worth, leaving farmers in great distress and struggle to make ends meet within their homes. This can relate to The Great Gatsby because Jay Gatsby's occupation also involves cheating people out of sales, more commonly known as a 'bootlegger'. Another similarity is that both books took place in various areas. Fast Food Nation describes occurrences and informative facts about states all over the country. Although The Great Gatsby took place in one state, the characters travel to several areas within New York such as the West Egg, the East Egg, and a few others. Schlosser and Fitzgerald both reveal a main character that holds a strong desire to go for what they want. In Fast Food Nation, the narrator holds a passion for the research of what is really happening with the food supply of the world. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby yearns to be reunited with his love, Daisy. The two works have a small number of similarities, but their relation can be seen through what was previously explained.

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Yay it worked. I love English!!! =)