Gordon Marino's A Life Beyond Do What You Love

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What do you want to do when you grow up? Most children are often asked that question and they
Often have ideas of what they would love to do. But do they end up doing what they love? Philosopher
Gordon Marino wrote the article “A Life Beyond Do What You Love”. In his article Marino argues that while some people want to do what they love, it is often better for people to do what they do not want to do so that they can provide for themselves and their family. Marino builds his argument using the
Rhetorical devices anecdote, hypophora and rhetorical question; however, the limited use of procatalepsis weakens his argument a little bit.

In his article, Marino writes about if we should do what we love or do what we do not what to …show more content…

In his writing, Marino uses the Rhetorical Device anecdote to help his argument and it successfully helps him. Marino uses anecdote by utilizing brief and personal stories to reveal important things about his argument. One example of anecdote that Marino used is “My father did not do what he loved. He labored at a job that he detested so that he could send his children to college.” (Page 2,Para1).
Another example is “They no doubt found a sense of meaning in their heroic acts of self-sacrifice, but they did not do what they were doing in order to achieve that sense of meaning. They did like my father and some of the kids from town, what they felt they had to do.” (Page 3, Para 4). Marino uses these examples in his article to reveal the importance of why doing what we do not like to do could be the best way to go, so that we can provide for ourselves and our family. These brief and personal stories really help Marino’s argument that doing what we do not like could be the best way for us to be able to

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