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.