Thannia Sandoval
January 26, 2011
Period 1st

Rehugo “Essays”

A. In Search of the Good Family Jane Howard

B. Jane Howard expresses her opinion that families should be important to everybody. She states her thesis giving reasons why it is important to have families in our lives. Howard begins by saying “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one”. From this quote, she indicates that not only some should have “families” but everyone. Howard explains this when she quotes “Their welfare must be nearly as important to you as your own. Even if you live alone, even if your solitude is elected and ebullient, you still cannot do without a clan or tribes”. Her position is agreeing in the fact that life is not life without an authority of family. Howard also states that not only does somebody have to be related but also have friends as families.

C. Two pieces of evidence that Howard applies is ethos and pathos to express her opinion. She indicates ethos when Howard quotes other people whom she’s met. One particular person was Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. who said “Humans being need all the relatives they can get- as positive donors or receivers not of love but of common decency”. This quote is relevant to what Howard is trying to convey because some humans not only like to here things from anybody but as well as somebody who knows what they are talking about. With this evidence it helps Howard include that with families, someone not only receive help but as well love. With love someone can find compassion and happiness. What the quotes revives is that people deserve just relative but love as well. Pathos is used as well when she uses Aristotle and quotes him saying “wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit”. This quote give it a tone of love and care. It uses pathos by allowing the reader know the tone of the quote. If the tone was harsh and had no respect as, the reader would not take it to consideration. The tone of the quote helps pathos become more effective and the more effective pathos is, the more it will support Howard’s point.

D. As many rhetorical strategies there are in Howard’s article, there are two that help support her claim effectively. She uses rhetorical questions such as “What can such times teach us about forming new and more lasting tribes in the future?” With this strategy, Howard proves her point by discussing how making the past the future. Human beings can use the past to help other be involved in their future. Another rhetorical strategy is comparison in which Howard compares Americans on how they try to accomplish their goals. She says “ We keep trying, though. To try, with gritted teeth and girded loins”. How she compares this really makes people can try very hard to get what they want. As well it conveys that not only do we need to have family but to also work for it and not let it just come by.

E. Citation Shea, Renйe Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "In Search of the Good Family." The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Kevin Sung
Period 1
1/26/10
REHUGO- Essay


A. The article, “In search of a good family,” is written by Jane Howard

B. Jane Howard supports the position that we need to live by families or clans to function in society, and there are ways to live effectively through a clan. In essence, we seek these clans and to live effectively through them.


C. The author provides much evidence to support her claim. Her evidence mainly enforces the use of ethos to establish credibility. For example, the author includes a quote from Susanne Langer (an author), “most people have no home that is a symbol of their childhood, not even a definite memory of one place to serve that purpose, all the old symbols are gone.” (287). The author uses this quote as evidence to support her claim that there are ways to live effectively in a clan. Right before the quote, the author asserts that one way in which clans must live effectively is that they must have a sense of place. The author uses this quote to imply that it is getting harder and harder for us to find our own sense of place. There is no definite memory that lives within us. This creates a pathway for the author to state clearly that: therefore, we need clans and families so that we can work together and find this sense of place.

Furthermore, the author also includes a quote from Helen, a social scientist. “ If you are voluntarily childless and alone, it gets harder and harder with the passage of time. Its stressful, that’s why you need support systems.” (284) The author uses this quote to support her claim that we need clans and families to function in society. The quote directly states that we need some type of support system. This also provides a gateway for the author to explicitly state that this support system
is seen through families and clans.

D. Rhetorical Questions: Howard uses rhetorical questions in order to imply the need for support systems and families. For example he poses questions like: “are there not thriving mega-families of as many as three hundred people in Scandinavia? Have not the Japanese for years had an honored, enduring custom of adopting nonrelatives to fill gaps in their families? Should we not applaud and maybe imitate such ingenuity.” The author is implying that even Japan and Scandinavia have been functioning through big families. In this context, Japan and Scandinavia are being used as sources of credibility. Ultimately, the author poses these questions to support his claim that we need families to function, just like Japan and Scandinavia.

Ethos: The author uses ethos mainly to establish her credibility. For example, the author includes an ideology from a prominent philosopher named Aristotle. “wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit. An ancient proverb he quotes in his Ethics had it that you cannot know a man until you and he together have eaten a peck of salt.” (284). Through this quote, the author implies that true friendship comes from enduring hardships together and profoundly understanding each other. This provides a transition for the author to state that this is what clans must and seek to do. The entities within a certain clan seek to understand each other. By quoting Aristotle, the author makes her argument credible.

Sources:

Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO ESSAY - Article- FAMILY

a." In Search of the Good Family"- Jane Howard

b. Howard stated that you needed family no matter what, whether it is of kin or of friends. She also declared that if you were born into a family that you slightly dislike, which most people are, that you could choose a different family and because you are picking certain people to be in your family, your group are most likely to last longer. This is so because the people you pick are probably your best friends and people you are most compatible with because those are people who won't fight with you. Howard also listed 10 observations of how families should be and they are generally what most people would think that families should be, which makes it relateable.

c.Evidence
a. Ethos- This essay was full of ethos, especially when Howard built her credability by adding examples to back up the information she was giving. An example would be paragraph 8, when Howard was with 2 "Helens" at a 2-day conference on families. It was one of the Helens who had said that it was hard and stressful to live alone and that you needed support systems. That was how Howard started talking more of support systems.
b. Pathos- There was pathos when she talked about friends and family. Howard expressed her thoughts about how important it was to have some kind of family throughout this whole essay. "We must steer each other through seasons and weathers so that sooner or later it crosses our minds that one of us, God knows which or with what sorrow, must one day mourn the other." This quote really captured what Howard was saying about family and friends because it was talking about how family or friends should stick together through thick and thin and stay loyal even if one has past away. It is significant because loyalty plays a huge role in family and friends and it never truly goes away.

D. Rhetorical Strategies
a. Definition- When Howard was listing 10 observations of how families should be, she used definition to explain the list. "1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a founder -- someone around whom others cluster, whose achievements, as the Yiddish word has it, let them kvell, and whose example spurs them on to like feats." This quote is an example of how the list looked like; it would say how families should be or have and explain it. It is significant because definition is used to define something, so it could help an author's arguement. Not only was the list full of ethos, but it definitely made Howard's arguement effective because other people could relate to it.
b. Exemplification- There was plenty of exemplification in Howard's list. "Jean-Paul Sarte and Margaret Mead, to name two spectacular confident former children, have both remarked on the central importance of grandparents in their own early lives." This quote showed how she was using other people for reference on how people respected their grandparents. This goes back to being able to relate to other people. Without exemplification, this essay would have consisted of basic facts and would have been hard to relate because there wouldn't have been examples for the facts given.

e. MLA Citation
Shea, Renee Hausemann.,Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Afuses. "In Search of a Good Family" The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO-Essay Analysis

Quinci Woods

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO: Analysis-Essay: “In Search of the Good Family”

A. “In Search of the Good Family” by Jane Howard

B. “In Search of the Good Family”, Howard illustrates her position of how important it is to be in a family. She describes what a family is and why someone would need one, “Call it a clan. Call it a network, call it a tribe, call it family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one” (283).

C. “Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit” (283). Howard appeals to ethos by quoting what Aristotle says about the topic of friends and family. This helps her argument to be stronger to refer to a credible source. Another piece of evidence she uses is appealing to pathos by why friends and family is precise in life; “If blood and roots don’t do the job, then we must look to water and branches, and sort ourselves into new constellations, new families” (283). A reader can relate to this statement since it is reality. When family do not do the job, friends can.

D. Howard uses classification and division when she describes the characteristics that are common in different types of families. The affect of classification and division is how Howard groups different little things into one classification. “Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a finder…” (285). The topic sentence of the different paragraphs tells what the characteristic is and elaborates upon it. Another rhetorical strategy she uses is exemplification, “’If you’re voluntarily childless and alone,’ said the other Helen, who was from Pennsylvania by way of Puerto Rico, ‘it gets harder and harder with passage of time. It’s stressful. That’s why you need support systems.’” (284). Howard gives an example to support her evidence of how important it is to have a support system. It connects with the audience when a quote from someone else’s point of view connects with the author’s.

E. Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "In Search of the Good Family". The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO

Waleed Ahmed

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis – Essay

A. "In Search of the Good Family"- author: Jane Howard

B. In the article, Jane Howard states how, as a human, one cannot live without the company of a clan or tribe. Mankind seeks relationships and also seeks to create meaningful families.

C. “Wishing to be friends, as Aristotle wrote, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit.” Using ethos, Howard references an allusion to an ancient proverb by Aristotle in order to describe how the strongest relationships are formed through time. Effectiveness from this example comes from how the reader can draw a correlation between the given example and that of a long-lasting marriage. A marriage, for example, is a relationship through which much time is spent between partners and many difficulties have been overcome. Since the author’s point was to prove that friendships grow slowly, the valid example of marriage helps the Howard’s argument.

Ethos was used once again as Howard referenced Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s Slapstick in order to emphasize the concept of “extended families,” or how we as humans form relationships with those other than relatives. Vonnegut’s book described how a newborn would be assigned a random middle along with a number to signify that they belong to a family other than their own. The concept from the book explains how “human beings need all the relatives they can get – as possible donors or receivers not of love but of common decency.” The reference and how humans recognize others besides kin to be part of a family draws a comparison that strengthens Howard’s argument.

D. Juxtaposition occurs as Howard goes into describing how humans hold “support systems.” However, the author does not define what “support systems” are to the reader. Instead, Howard goes into comparing how Scandinavia and Japan hold different and more ingenious views of family, or “support systems,” than America with the use of a rhetorical question. By providing the reader with the question and a comparison between the families of other countries and America, the author wishes to urge the reader to imitate the practices of the example nations.

As Howard states her 10 observations on what make good families, her similar organization of sentences in the paragraphs is repeated. Using deduction, the author states a brief, general statement and proceeds into giving examples from not only history, but personal experiences, as well. For example, in the sixth observed characteristic of good families, Howard first states that “Good families prize their rituals.” She then proceeds into stating that “a clan becomes more of a clan each time it gathers to observe a fixed ritual.” Finally she concludes her paragraph by stating “I used to meet for lunch every Pearl Harbor Day…to ‘forgive’ our only ancestrally Japanese friend, Irene Kubota Neves.” Since all of Howard’s observation paragraphs follow this pattern, the reader can infer that the author is trying to emphasize the effectiveness of families and situations in which they occur.

Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Aisha Tarin
Mr. Soeth
English 3AP
January 26,2011


REHUGO Analysis - Essay

A. Title: "In Search of the Good Family?" Author: Jane Howard

B. Jane Howard's thesis is about how all human beings need a family. It doesn't have to be the family you were born into, it could be anyone you feel is supportive and always there for you. Everyone needs a family or support group that is understanding, it is believed it will help you live a happier life.

C. Evidence:

a.Howard uses ethos and pathos to support her argument. Howard uses ethos throughout her essay to give her argument credibility. For example Jane Howard mentions Kurt Vonnegut, Jr author of the fictional novel Slapstick in her essay. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. establishes ethos because he has a quote from his book supporting Jane howards argument saying, "human beings need all the relatives they can get - as possible donors or recievers not of love but of common decency." Vonnegut helps support Howard's argument by having the same idea that family is the most imortant people in a persons life.

b. Howard also uses pathos that way readers are emotionally connected to her essay. Jane Howard mentions pathos when she talks about how more and more people need to be comforted in her essay she states, " More and more I realize that everybody, regardless of age, needs to be hugged and comforted in a brotherly or sisterly way now and then." Many people can relate to this quote because at one point in there lives they must have felt the need of comforting but there was no one there to do so. That is why Howard believes family or a support system is important to live your life.

D. Rhetorical Strategies:

a. Throught her essay Howard compares and contrasts families to clans, tribes, and untitarians. For example Howard says, "The trouble with clans and tribes many of us were born in is not that they consist of meddlesome ogres but that they are too far away." This compares and contrast our families to meddlesome ogres but that our family members whether they are nice or not don't live close to us so it causes you to find people other then your blood to be your family so they are able to help you at your time of need.

b. Another rhetorical strategy used is rhetorical questions. An example of a rhetorical question used in this essay is, "What can such times teach us about forming new and more lasting tribes in the future?" Without answering the question you can understand the point the question is trying to make by saying instead of dwelling over a lost friendship or family member you can learn from your mistakes and form new family members.

E. MLA Citation
Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Afuses. "In Search of the Good Family?" The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO

Carina Banci

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis- Reading

A. "In Search of the Good Family" By Jane Howard

B. Thesis: The thesis for this article was that a person couldn't survive without having a family, blood-related or not.

C. Evidence: "Our blood kin are often too remote to ease us from our Tuesdays to our Wednesdays. For this we must rely on our families of friends." This is pathos because Howard is relating to the readers and knows how they felt about having blood-related family too far away. She is assuring the readers that there is another way to get comforted and that is by their friends. "These new families, to borrow the terminology of an African tribe (the Bangwa of the Cameroons)..." This is logos because Howard is using this fact as a way to connect to her thesis of having a non-blood-related family. She's using those certain terms, friends of the road and friends of the heart, to define different kinds of family.

D. Rhetorical Strategies:
1) "...but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit." This metaphor brings in effect because Howard is suggesting that having such a relationship would be somewhat a reward at the end. It's something to cherish and enjoy when its fully grown.

2) "1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a founder.." All of the numbered paragraphs that started with "Good families.." is an example of exemplification. This is effective because this set of numbers or rules is a long sequence of examples of what a good family should have.

E. Shea, Renee Hausmann, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric. Boston, MA:Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Eljae Nisperos

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011.


REHUGO ANALYSIS – Essay.

A. In Search of the Good Family – Jane Howard

B. In this article, Howard states that you need a family. Basically, that without a family you are nothing. You didn’t come from “nowhere” obviously, you came from someone, and have a family. Your family, means alot to you as well as other people around you as well.

C. Evidence :
a. Howard uses pathos to describe how much a family means to you and how vital it is. Howard says that you may have family across the globe. That you grow very close with this “family” that you have. Although they live far away, you love seeing them, they are your blood, your “family.” You and your across the globe family make trips to see each other. Summing up to at least once or twice a year just for the pleasure of it. If it isn’t relatives then it’s your friends. Your friends are your second family. Without any of these, you are nothing. These people are vital items of your life, you need them. You need a family.
b. Howard puts out her credibility by using an African Tribe as an example as well as Aristotle. Friends are family, but they are a choice, or people that just come along in your life. Knowing this, your friends know your daily routine, what you did on previous days, how to help you in your situations and what not. Howard uses Aristole by using one of his examples, which states “Wishing to be friends, is quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit.” Which means that friendship must be worked for.

D. Rhetorical Strategies :
a. Howard uses a metaphor as one of rhetorical strategies. She uses a quote from Aristotle, which states “Wishing to be friends, is a quick work, but friendship is a slowly ripening fruit.” This means that becomming friends is easy and fast, but developing and healthy and lasting friendship takes time. As well as your family, you might not know people in your family as well as you do as others, so you develop on it. Make the friendship between family better.
b. Howard uses cause and effect by giving off examples with the families and friends. For example, having family overseas means that you’ll visit. Causing you to acknowledge them more, arranging more trips to visit them. Also with friends, if your family isnt there, then your friends are. Basically saying, as of second nature, your family is your second family.

E. MLA Citation :
Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO analysis - reading

Tayler Wills

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis – Reading “In Search of the Good Family”

1. “In Search of the Good Family” Written by: Jane Howard
2. Howard’s main idea is what Good families have that make them a family or ‘clan’ and how families help out in the community eventually extended their family through the community.
3. “Good families…” at the start of all paragraphs number 1-9. Howard has an idea in her head of what a ‘good family’ is, and by saying what ‘good families’ have, she is establishing logos. Most families do have a ‘chief’, ‘prized rituals’, ‘affection’, and the ideals in the other 6 paragraphs. Even if the chief isn't a man of the house, there is still someone who everyone turns to, the dominant one. “…not just the blood kind, find some way to connect with prosperity.” Howard used a little of pathos and ethos. Everyone considers their best friend to be like family right? We call each others parents mom and dad, and if we get in trouble often times we receive the same punishment, right? Most of our families are social enough to have those family friends that when we introduce them to others we say, “This is my cousin”, and just consider family and extend an invitation to family events such as Christmas dinner or a baptism. This allows other blood related family to begin to view them as family too.
4. Howard uses repetition through out her entire article, ‘Good families’, in the beginning ‘call it a clan, call it a network....’ and in the eighth paragraph she quotes the words “support system” at least three times. The repeating of ‘good families’ is to discuss what good families are. When she say ‘call it…’, she is comparing a family to a clan, a tribe, even a network because that is exactly what families are like. Tribes stick together, sometimes interacting with other tribes, later becoming brothers, but are always there for each other. When she repeatedly uses ‘support systems’ she is exerting that a family is there for support; as if your life is a play, you’re the lead actor and your family is your stage crew, some behind the scenes making sure everything goes as planned and some right on stage with you to help you with a stumbled line. Every family member plays an important role, which is why it can be compared to a tribe, or even a network; these groups do not function properly with out every one pulling their own weight.
5. Citation:

Lawrence Scanlon, Shea, Robin Dissin, Renee Hausmann. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

rehugo 1

Abby Santora

Mr. Soeth

Ap Eniglish 3

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis- Essay

A. "In Search of the Good Family"- author: Jane Howard

B. In this essay the author's main point is to tell how family is a special kind of relationship. Family is better than friendship. He talks about how it is human nature to have someone caring for you like parents and a child. He compares our lifes today with early civilization and tribes and how neither of us can live alone.

C. Through out most of the story Howard appeals to pathos. He talks about how people care about eachother and need eachother to survive. He gets to peoples hearts by relating to them and talking about how they need eachother to have a normal life.

Another example the author uses is a comparison when he compares how we live today to how they lived before in clans. In paragraph one it says that clans and networks and tribes are all related to families.

D. Through out this essay they use a lot of repititions. One example of this had to do with the tribes. Another example of this is towards the middle of the essay it repeats the sayinf "good families" to keep all the different ideas together and emphisize the points.

Also in this essay the author uses alot of comparisons. One example of this is calling the family a support system. And also again, it uses comparisons with tribes and clans and how our families today are like how clans and tirbes were before.

E. Shea, Renee Hausmann, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissfin. The Language of Composition. Bostin, MA: Bedford, St. Martin's 2008.

Sharena Kaur

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis- Essay

A.“In Search of the Good Family” – author: Jane Howard

B.In the essay, the author, Howard states that families are an important part of human nature; everyone needs someone to care of them and to care for, people need others to go to share their pain and happiness to, and at the end of the day, no matter how hard life hits someone, they always have a family who will support them. Family cannot be compared to friendship because a family lasts forever whereas friendship can end and begin any day or anytime.

C.Evidence:

1.Howard brings logos into play when she compares a family to a struggling tribes and clans. Instead of helping one another, in clans and tribes, people watch others make mistakes and meddle into their business. Families, on the other hand, help one another and rush to visit the other whether they are across the country or overseas. By pointing out the necessity of having a family there with you, Howard establishes logos. It is important to have your family by your side because they help you and understand your position of need.

2.In her argument, Howard also employs pathos when she begins to mention how when lonely, a family can come to good use. For example, in the essay, Howard mentions her conversation with a friend, Helen, who said “it gets harder and harder with the passing of time. It’s stressful. That’s why you need support systems.” This establishes pathos because the audience can relate to it with a similar situation that they or a family member has experienced. A support system is needed if a person goes bankrupt, loses the ability to live on their own, or just feels lonesome. She mentions that during birthdays and other occasions, family gathers around to celebrate for one another and then she leads onto how a celebration wouldn’t be the same without family. Another example of pathos in the essay is when Howard mentions God. By doing so, she ties in religion which catches a reader’s attention and appeals to the audience’s emotionally. This establishes pathos because the audience can think back to their family celebrations and events. Howard uses pathos because the audience most likely has a family who they can refer to when reading the essay.

D.Rhetorical Strategies:

1.In the essay, Howard uses classification and division when she creates a list of necessities in a good family. By classifying the obligations of having and maintaining a good family, Howard helps the reader think back to what they have compared to what is mentioned in the essay. In the beginning of each point Howard uses “good families have…” By doing so she sets up the example of an ideal family for the reader to visualize. Organizing the information into sections helps the reader organize their thoughts. Howard also embeds exemplifications in her points about the ideal family structure and life. She uses examples on what role a person has in the family and how each role is important in the family structure.

2.Another rhetorical strategy used by Howard is comparing and contrasting. Throughout the essay, Howard compares and contrasts a family to tribes, clans, Unitarians, and other families. For example, Howard states, “the trouble with clans and tribes many of us were born into is not that they consist of meddlesome ogres but that they are too far away.” She uses this comparison because it gives the audience something to visualize while reading about the family life and how it is similar yet different from the tribal society.

E.MLA Citation:
Shea, Renée Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "In Search of the Good Family." The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Stacey Smyth

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis - Essay

A. Essay: “In Search of the Good Family” - Author: Jane Howard

B. Thesis: In this essay, Howard explicates that having a family is vital to your existence and your happiness. She explains that whether, they are your blood relatives or close friends, they are necessary to have in your life.

C. Evidence: The Bagwa tribe of the Cameroons was one example of how Howard established her ethos. She discussed how they considered, not only their blood relatives as family, but their friends and neighbors as well. Howard evokes an emotional reaction with the mention of the necessity to not live in solitude, but to have family. For some, discussing “family” can be a touchy and sensitive subject. However, she explains that your family does not necessarily have to be those whom you are related to, but they are also those whom you chose to surround yourself by. The author’s interpretation of the word family and its connection to the Bangwa tribe can give hope to those who do not have a distinctive and established family. It can also extend the horizon of who you view your family as and what they mean to you.

D. Rhetorical Strategies: Howard uses classification and division in her essay to organize the important roles a person may play in their family or tribe. For example, “1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or founder… 2. Good families he a switchboard operator…” Each main point is describing a role or quality that a family must have. Howard uses the repetition of the words “[g]ood families” for each of her ten main points. Howard is emphasizing the fact that “good families” must fit the criteria that she has laid out in essay. She also begins with the use of repetition. “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.” By this, she is implying that these are all generally the same and what you decide to call it is simply your decision.

E. MLA Citation:
Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Kathleen Alonzo

Mr. Soeth

English 3AP

January 27, 2011

REHUGO Analysis – Reading

A. “In Search of the Good Family” By: Jane Howard

B. Thesis: In the article the author’s main thesis revolves around the characteristics that make up conventional families and new kinds of families significant to communities.

C. Evidence: “These new families, to borrow the terminology of an African tribe (the Bangwa of the Cameroons), may consist either of friend of the road, ascribed by chance, or friends of the heart, achieved by choice.” The author brings out ethos as she uses the credibility of the Bangwa Tribe. Howard tells of how the Bangwa Tribe makes up their own families with different individuals within their tribe. She states that their tribes consist of friends of the road or ascribed by chance, which in other words means friends who happen to go to same school, work, or live near you. “A few of my life's most tribally joyous times, in fact, have been spent with people whom I have yet to see again.” The author uses pathos to provide readers with an appeal to emotion describing how she once felt joy when she spent time with people whom she will see again. These people whom she will yet see again would be considered as family.

D. Rhetorical Strategies: “Call it a clan, call it a tribe, call it a family.” Howard uses repetition as an introduction to her article and with the repetition readers can infer what her main thesis of the article could be. Using the repetition of the phrase “call it”, it implies no matter what terminology you use to describe family, clan or tribe they all mean the same thing. “1. Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a founder.” This sentence from the passage is 1 out of the 10 paragraphs she uses for patterns of development. Using patterns of development gives the author a method of organization or arrangement to organize an entire text. In this case, Howard organizes this paragraph along with the other 9 paragraphs, in the order on the importance of the different roles and characteristics founded in a family.

E. Citation:

Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

REHUGO 1

Shelly Kaur

Mr. Soeth

English 3 AP

January 26, 2011

REHUGO Analysis-Reading: Essay

A. "In Search of the Good Family" by Jane Howard

B. Argument

In the essay, Jane Howard argues that everyone needs a family. The family does not have to be through blood line, it can be friends or any other outside contacts. It is part of human nature to have someone by our side. We need to have groups around us whether they are our blood-related family or people that we tend to consider as our family.

C. Evidence

Howard uses ethos for evidence in presenting the argument that everyone needs someone by their side as family. In the passage, the author mentions Susanne Langer (page 287), Michael Novak (page 287), and novelist Richard P. Brickner (page 288). Bringing up these experts in the essay, Howard establishes credibility. When a quote from someone like a novelist is incorporated, it increases the chances of readers to trust the writer and be persuaded for the argument.

Another evidence that the author uses to support the argument is pathos. This type of evidence is used to appeal to the reader's emotions. In paragraph two, it states that "we must try to transform our friends into our relatives." This statement shows us that when our blood-related family is not with us, we need to find friends that can be considered as our family. This is an emotional appeal because when there is no family on our side, we feel lonely. In order to get rid of the loneliness, we try to bring new people in our life and start to accept them as our family.

D. Rhetorical Strategies

The rhetorical strategy used in the essay was repetition. This can be seen in paragraph four when the author repeats "we must." This repetition effects the tone of the essay. By having "we must" repeated in that paragraph, it changes the tone to being more direct and demanding. It is a call to an action in which it is stating that we must get to know more people around us. The repetition also makes a certain point more clear by mentioning it over and over again. It forces the reader to think more about it than otherwise.

Another rhetorical strategy used by Howard is definition. In the beginning of the essay in paragraph three, the author mentions the different types of friends we come across in life. Specifically, she talks about "ascribed friends." These friends are given a definition in the passage as "those we happen to go to school with, work with, or live near." Further on, she states that these friends are those that we tend to forget "unless by some chance they and we have become friends of the heart." This paragraph gives a definition of the type of friendship there exists. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to clarify to the reader what the writer is exactly talking about. The definition classifies the type of friends there are that we encounter in life.

E. Citation

Shea, Renee Hausmann., Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin. Aufses. "More Working Parents Play "Beat the Clock"" The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print.