Mitch Albom Ethos Pathos Logos

Mitch Albom spent a week in South Korea studying the high school students.He decided to educate himself on the korean educational system, after former President Barack Obama made a statement about how Korea school system has a better education system and that if they can so can America. The author Mitch Albom claims that the reason for the South Korean education system not working in the United States social dynamic for highschool students is drastically different. He also states that adding on a month to the school year will do nothing to improve and adapt to the ways that South Korea's school system is at. Mitch Albom does detailed job on explain and writing the article. He uses ethos to really help make his support of this claim stronger, not only does he use ethos he uses repetition and antanagoge to really make his writing stick.

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Antanagoge is when the author, Albom, takes a criticism and a complement and puts them together in the same sentence. By using this device he is established the counter argument as wells as supporting his claim. The antanagoge don't really start showing up until the end of the editorial, his first one is say that studies show that kids from korea do amazingly well on standardized test, those who come to america for college end up dropping out. This quote is important because it really shows that he is acknowledged that not only can americas school system not be like south koreans but it's also hard for students from Korea in the American school system. In the next sentence down albom does it again “ Their success runs much deeper that that. Their issues do, too”. Showing how not only that the have success in schooling but a lot of problems as well that go along with it. This rhetorical device help the right strengthen his claim even more by acknowledging the issues and addressing