A Rhetorical Analysis Of Elon Musk

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Many people believe that it is impossible to get to a status of that such as Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft, however, Elon Musk has accomplished what many have thought to be near impossible. Knowing how one has become successful could help others become just as successful or somewhere close. Having spent over fifty hours with Elon Musk, Ashlee Vance has uncovered the qualities and life choice made by Elon Musk in his first ever biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. Vance has the chance to examine one of the most successful businessmen in the world. She looked into his life growing up, his family, his childhood, and many more aspects that would transform him into what he is now. She got to know the inner …show more content…

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Many of what Ashlee write on Elon Musk dates back to the occurrences in his childhood, which can be said to be rough times for him and his other siblings. Vance shows these events with well thought out rhetorical techniques. Though life could seem admirable from the outside, it was filled with difficulties and encounters that made the life for Musk and his siblings at times burdensome. Vance uses personal experiences from Kimbal, Elon Musk’s sibling, that show some of the things their father would do like “lecture at them for three to four hours without the boys being able to respond”(Vance 24). Taking the fun out of everything was a common thing Errol Musk, the father of both Elon and Kimbal Musk, would carry out. Elon and Kimbal would also be physically abused but those details were not shared “because they are horrendous”(Vance 24). If only Kimbal would have described what that would have looked like, a finner sense of the scenes could have been perceived by the audience and connected the feelings of what Elon and Kimbal went thru straight to the reader. Although knowing what that would have been like most likely would have brought out a more vivid image of the type of abuse they confronted, one can say both Elon and Kimbal were shaped by it in a positive way which is something Kimbal said himself. One type of literal imagery that is used in this book in the “Photographic

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