Neil Gaiman's Why Our Future

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In the reading, “Why our Future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming” Neil Gaiman discusses the importance of reading, in addition to that he feels going to nearby libraries to check out books is a wonderful thing especially for children. Gaiman also believes that children of all ages along with adults can read any type of book. The books can be fiction or non-fiction and have dissimilar genres as well. The rhetorical devices that were used are persuasive speaking; the tone which was imperative, and Parallelism. The main point Gaiman is trying to make is that more people should have a desire to read, not only to learn but to also have a broad vocabulary and to be well read to have knowledge on the world. The article is persuasive due to Gaiman explaining to readers on why reading and going to the library often can be beneficial in the end not only for their education but to have an enhanced indulgence.
The author uses persuasive speaking throughout the whole article to not only get readers to understand his argument but to also get more …show more content…

He constantly uses it so the readers will not forget the claim he made in the beginning of the passage. Parallelism is when sentences have a similarity that are expressed similar to show that the topic is very important, it is essentially explained in different ways so the audience can understand the importance of the main idea. He gives examples on fiction and reading, “Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it's a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it's hard, because someone's in trouble and you have to know how it's all going to end … that's a very real drive” (Gaiman 9). In the quote, Gaiman basically states how fiction is not so bad to read it is actually in fact a wonderful genre because it allows people to have an open-mind and have their very own

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