Rhetorical Analysis Of Cremona

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Vincent Cremona shares his experience as to how he discovered his different senses of writing. The first paragraph was an attention grabber, saying how instead of viewing the world in black and white like most people, he views it in blue and white. From this understanding, the audience believes they are one of the many people who see in black and white and are curious as to how Cremona thinks he sees the world in blue and white instead. Cremona utilizes pathos in his article by noting his parents' influence on not only his writing but also his overall communication. He then starts to mention how his father used to communicate with his coworkers and how his mother used to communicate with her fellow colleagues. The descriptions Cremona applied to the text help the audience better picture his parents: his father as a hardworking, proud union truck driver with the same morals as Jimmy Hoffa, and his mother who was was clean and poise with a briefcase in her hand as she "aligned herself more with Emily Post," as Cremona puts it. These two vastly different characters help the audience to agree with Cremona in that …show more content…
His father would talk to his coworkers in a plain and audacious manner, where even at a young age Cremona was able to understand, whereas his mother would write legalese and utilize more formal and sophisticated language, no matter if she was speaking to her supervisors or writing Cremona a note for school. The simplified style of his blue-collared father and the refined demeanor of his white-collared mother helped Cremona realize he spoke in a blue and white collar fashion. He even mentions how his father and mother are blue-collared and white-collared workers respectively so the audience can logically connect Cremona's "blue and white" style directly to his