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.