Salman Rushdie's Argumentative Summary

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Throughout this passage, Scott Russell Sanders disputes Salman Rushdie's claim that the benefits of migration outweighs the cons. Rushdie believes that tolerance, acceptance, coexistence, and education all stem from migration. Sanders, contrastingly, sought to defend the advantages of staying in one place by the use of various literary strategies and devices, including anticipating advantage, parallelism, and allusion.
Anticipating objection is when the author identifies opposing arguments that could be made against their claim, then uses evidence to disprove them and validate the author's own argument. Sanders spent the first half of his article anticipating objection by laying out what Rushdie said and how his words could be construed as
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Similar to repetition, he uses allusion to portray a common sense of entitlement and greed found in people who are always moving. Sanders alludes to many historical events that specifically affected the development of the United States when he writes things like, "The Spaniards devastated Central and South America by imposing on this New World the religion, economics, and politics of the Old." He also references some of the colonists' negative contributions- slavery, smallpox, and Norway rats- to the New World, and the migrant famers who transferred "farming methods that were suitable to wetter regions" to the Great Plains, which caused the Dust Bowl. Sanders uses allusions to support his claim that nomadic lifestyles are detrimental to not only the nomad, but also the …show more content…
He practiced anticipating objection by describing opposing viewpoints and then debunking them with evidence that supports his perspective. Parallelism was prevalent in Sanders' many lists that depicted stereotypical American drive to explore and expand. Examples of allusion were also frequent throughout the passage, as he named migration the cause of many undesirable events in America's short history. Sanders ties all of these literary devices and strategies together to form a well-composed dispute of Rushdie's assumptions and writings on