Rhetorical Analysis of “I Acknowledge Mine” by Jane GoodallIn Jane Goodall’s piece “I Acknowledge Mine” she claims that chimpanzees are being treated unfairly in test laboratories. This is a valid and credible claim. Goodall’s caim is effective because by using different devices and techniques, Goodall was able to encourage the reader to take her side and to feel pity and sympathy for the chimpanzees.In Goodall’s piece a technique that is used the most is the appeal to pity. Goodall does a good job of swaying the reader to feel sympathy towards the chimpanzees.
She applies loaded language to evoke the reader’s emotions. In Goodall’s piece she expresses the term trauma. When a person hears the word trauma they think of something that is disastrous and distressing.
So by using this word she is able to persuade the the reader to consider that the things happening to theses chimpanzees are horrific.Goodall also utilizes rhetorical questions. In her piece she articulates many questions that acquire the reader to think.
Goodall begins to compare chimpanzees to humans, stating that they feel joy, sorrow, and despair just like humans. That the chimpanzees also show intellectual skills that we also show. When Goodall concludes her comparison she states another rhetorical question, asking, then do chimpanzees not deserve to be treated with the same kind of consideration that we accord to ourselves? In doing this Goodall also uses the technique of ethical appeal.
She taps into the moral of humans to treat everybody has they are equal.She influences the reader to question themselves. Another device that Goodall employs is adcotate. Most of the piece is about Goodall’s own experience and something that she has seen with her own eyes. Jane Goodall has been to the laboratories and she has held those chimpanzees and glimpsed in their eyes and has seen the sorrow they hold. She has been and seen the little baby chimpanzees playing and she has seen the chimpanzees that have been locked away in boxes like prisons.
This makes the piece believable because it is coming from a real person’s experience. The reader is drawn in to her piece because it is has taken place in someone’s own experience.Goodall’s caim is effective because by using different devices and techniques, Goodall was able to encourage the reader to take her side and to feel pity and sympathy for the chimpanzees. Jane Goodall was able to make an influence on her readers.
She was smart and very persuasive. She has more than likely changed the thinking of many people because of the way she used different devices and techniques to persuade people.
