Rhetorical Analysis

Rhetorical Analysis

Students encountering social anxiety will most likely not have the self-efficacy to go to

school and work on homework, but also probably not finish high school or college.

Social Anxiety and Self-efficacy

My thesis connects with rhetoric analysis by giving a deeper meaning of how ethos,

pathos, and logos can impact on the audience of how they can interpret the meaning. The

rhetorical appeals and genres help with my research to give a broader explanation on cultural,

and youth aspect of who is affected by the disorder of social anxiety.

Discussion

According to John Swale (2014) the genre is the monograph. Downs specifies on the

ethos, pathos, and logos. Ignacio Lopez explain more in cultural diversity part of social and

racial anxiety; the genre is a monograph. Candice, A, Alfano, and Deborah C, Beidel, including

more authors, focuses on social anxiety amongst the youth, genre is a anthology.

Ethos

Ignacio Lopez-Calvo is credible author. He currently is a professor of Latin American

literature at University of California, Merced, He also has published four books on culture and

two of them involving the Latin culture one the books I have mentioned and the other is

American and U. S Latino literature and culture Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973-

Present (2001). His book Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction-the culture production of social

anxiety was published by The University of Arizona Press Tucson. According to the book,

culture amongst the Hispanics experiencing mistreatment of racial and social anxiety. According

to Downs (2017) ethos represents the rhetor’s credibility in the mastery of the topic.

Pathos
 The book has an emotional approach through the photos. A drawing by Los Angeles

graffiti artists on chapter two to express the decrease in crime (Lopez-Calvo, 2011). An

illustration of the would be the picture on chapter one suburbs reacting racial segregation to the

arrival of black and brown people to the American inner cities called the “white flight” from

inner city. Great wall of L.A (Lopez-Calvo, 2011). And another illustration of chapter two of a

scapegoating during the Great Depression: Deportation of Mexican Americans. Great Wall of

L.A. (Lopez-Calvo, 2011). There are many other examples but all relating to deportation, racial

discrimination, segregation, and how socially Hispanics are affected by the labeling of being

considered Mexican Americans whereas white Americans are fully considered to be citizens of

this country just by their skin color. According Down (2017) pathos is to create an emotion of

human values.

Logos

The author uses logos by providing facts of how Mexican Americans are treated

differently. Our ethnicity can impact on how people see us a person. Mexican American

descendants, Chicano or Latino were uneased to the oppression of the poverty, racism, and

gender inequality causing social anxiety (Lopez-Calvo, 2011). Another example are Chicano

families being evicted from the city authorities from public housing projects to eliminate the

ethnic diversity (Lopez-Calvo, 2011). It is surprising how the borderline or the wall, can defy us

as a person. Even though the Mexicans were Americans they were inferior to society and were

not treated the same racially and socially. According to Down (2017) logos is logical creating a

sense of reason to your data.

Audience
 The audience from this book are people who come from Hispanic, Chicano, or any

Mexican background who faces discrimination through a racial and social way. And the audience

is for the people who can relate to being labeled from a certain race and not by being a good

hard-working American. According to Ede and Andrea Lunsford (1954) how the audience and

writer connect with each other are by having the same beliefs, attitudes, and have similar

knowledge of having the same or similar experience.

Conclusion

According to the book Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production

of Social Anxiety (2011) to most people being an American does not mean you are privileged to

be citizen and earn the same rights as the average American. Mexican Americans experienced

anxiety by the mistreatment of inequality of the invisible border.