Persuasion can be used in a good way as well as in a bad way. In the short story “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)”, Junot Diaz presents the theme of stereotyping through the eyes of the narrator using persuasion to convince a him on how to get different girls. In the novel Persuasion, Jane Austen presents a question of social status and a difficulty of marriage by looking at Anne and her lover Wentworth’s values and beliefs. In both texts, the authors use persuasion to inform the reader of the lifestyles of the characters. In contrast, Diaz uses persuasion to command rather than depicting the character’s feelings and actions in Persuasion. The different obstacles described and compared by the persuasive pieces of literature such as race and social class help the audience to understand the characters’ actions and values.
Race is one of the obstacles presented, and it drives a Dominican’s reaction in “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black girl, White girl, or Halfie)” into a state of confusion and difficulty as a minority. The author commands the reader to do a bunch of things before going to a date; he says, “Clear the government cheese from the refrigerator…Hide the pictures of yourself with an Afro” (Diaz). The images of the government cheese and the pictures of the guy that he has to hide present poverty, inferior status of the narrator, and his origin. He does not want the girls that he tries to date to see his racial markers. He is not confident in accepting his race. This action may indicate that he values other people’s races more than his own race. Furthermore, the narrator complies with another instruction when he meets with a black girl , which states, “Run a hand through your hair like the whitebo...
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...oice to do. Because of Wentworth’s belief, self-persuasion, and misjudgement of Anne, this clearly fails Anne’s goal in reuniting with Wentworth.
There are a lot of obstacles that the characters in both Persuasion and Diaz’s short story have to face. The two major ones are social class and race. Both the authors use persuasion as part of their goal to analyze and to illustrate those two major obstacles or themes as well as to help the readers understand the character’s feelings and reasoning. The use of persuasion in everyday language is ubiquitous. People use the language of persuasion to get people’s attention, to manipulate people’s emotions, and to influence people’s mind into something that they want. Not everyone will believe in it. That is why persuasion can be seen in a good way or a bad way, unlike an argument, which can have various logical points of view.
In the essay of Mr.Gary Soto, we learn about his experiences about falling in love with someone of a different race. Ever since he was young, he would be lectured that marrying a Mexican women would be the best option for his life. Gary’s grandmother would always proclaim: “... the virtues of marrying a Mexican girl: first, she could cook,second, she acted like a woman, not a man, in her husband’s home” (pp.219). Being conditioned into the notion that all Mexican woman have been trained to be proper women, Mr. Soto set out on finding his brown eyed girl; however, what love had quite a different plan. This paper will cover three different themes Gary’s essay: The tone, the mindset of the character’s mindsets, and the overall message of the
Authors and speakers alike use some type of persuasion on their intended audience. They often try to make you agree with their argument before considering other factors. Persuasive writing often has a copious amount of logical fallacies, defined by the Perdue Online Writing Lab as “errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic”, despite that they tend to have success with sympathetic audiences. Wendell Berry’s essay “The Whole Horse” is an example. Berry is likely to persuade his conservationist audience because of his use of emotive language.
Stereotypes within our society have shaped the way we perceive each other. Throughout the book Punished by Victor Rios, a lot of stereotypes were not only reinforced but also used against a lot of the boys. A lot of the boys presented throughout the book had never actually committed a crime but they were treated as if they had. These boys were constantly labeled and categorized, like folders into a filling cabinet or a bin. Sure Oakland, California had a lot of gang-infested areas but that does not mean everyone in that area is part of a gang or is committing a crime. Thus, this book really demonstrates how one can be perceived or labeled as a criminal due to his or her surroundings and how these stereotypes can destroy one’s chance of freedom.
Sandra Cisneros’s “Never Marry a Mexican” introduces readers to Clemencia. Cisneros eludes Clemencia as a woman who appears proud of her Mexican heritage, yet knows not how the slanderous phrase “Never marry a Mexican” uttered from her well-meaning mother’s trusty lips about Clemencia’s own Mexican father negatively foreshadows her seedy life and gloomy world perspective later down her destructive journey of adulthood. Simply put, Clemencia’s relationship with her mother is "like [she] never had one" (Cisneros 131) especially during the final moments of her sickly father's life. When Clemencia's mom meets a white man during her father's hospitalization, Clemencia's mom instantaneously begins dating him. Why not?
Labels don't tell the truth to who people are. We have all heard gossip about someone and immediately jumped to conclusions about them. Because of this, we can miss out on friendships, connections, beneficial conversations and positive interactions. And yes, sometimes the hallway gossip can be true, but you shouldn't judge someone based on one mistake they made, you should get to know them first. Labels are created for everyone. They can be positive, but most of the time, the ones we hear and spread are negative. In the book "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton, there are a few characters who are constantly misunderstood and labeled by other characters. The ones who stood out to me are Dally, Randy and Darry.
The short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is the main character, Yunior’s, guide to dating girls of different races and the ways to act in order to get what you want from them. The only thing Yunior seems to want for these girls is sexual acts. This short story argues that a person’s heritage, economic class, and race affect how a person identifies themselves, and how their identity affects how they act towards other people. The pressures a person may feel from society also has an effect on how a person treats themselves and others. The pressure and expectations from society are also what makes Yunior think he needs to have sex with these girls. There are many different occasions of the main character talking and acting differently to other people within the story, such as: to himself, his friends, and the different girls he tries to date.
...the readers just understand and be comprehensible about my words with no reason. Knowing and seeing each other between readers and writers would lead the essay into communication world. In this way, if we understand mechanism of persuasion and make the best us of that, it is going to be easy to draw interest and persuade readers.
Perhaps because he wants to impresses the girls whom he wants to date, nevertheless, he is hiding his own identity for the sake of others. He obscures any artifacts that related to where he was from. He also dresses up and comb his hair as a white boy would when he meets a white girl’s mother. Everything that he does is as if he had been instructed or following the society’s indirect rules. For an example, before a date, he waits at home for the girl’s parent to bring her over if she is an outsider. Then while on the date he thinks it is fine to take her to Wendy’s since she is not from around the area. After the date, if she is a halfie, he reckons that when her father picks her up there is no need to say good bye. His actions reveal to the readers that he has insecurities revolving around his culture and his true self, by hiding all of the monuments that will unveil his Dominican culture. Not only that, but if he is on a date, his actions and gestures would not reflect who he is, but rather who he thinks he should be. This shows that he is conflicting within himself to find his own true self. He wants to fit in, to belong to, yet he is altering himself to pacify others. He hides his identification and tries to be some one that he is not to find a place that he can connects and be a part
“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie” is a cultural story about the ever changing cultural stereotypes. The author, Junot Diaz is a Dominican Republic native who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 7 years old with his mother. He grew up in a Black and Hispanic neighborhood in New Jersey. (293) Diaz wrote the story in a Colloquial Language. He used informal writing to create a conversational tone. You can see this from the beginning of the story. “She said, ‘Go ahead and stay, malcriado.’” Diaz inputted words in Spanish to state his Latino roots. Identifying himself with his readers. He toggles back and for
He begins off the story with the setting of his home and how he is planning for his first date to arrive. He is doing phenomenal arrangements to awe the young lady he is as of now dating. As he is clarifying how to get ready for the date he gives basic proposals, for example, "In the event that she's an outcast her father will be bringing her, possibly her mother" (page 178). This is expressing that the young lady won't be urban or Hispanic since she is viewed as a pariah. He is likewise giving an indication that he need to act contrastingly in light of the fact that the young person is from an alternate social foundation. Diaz additionally gives the securing in his quote "In the event that she's a whitegirl you know you'll at any rate land a hand position" (page 178). Which infers that each white young lady gives hand work which is a basic generalization that Diaz may have gotten notification from his companions or accepting this from an experience he has
The narrator has been affected by his Dominican background and is not proud of it. When he hides his family’s pictures from his poor life in the Dominican before the girl comes over shows that he is very insecure about his true self. The narrator is insecure because of firsthand experience of being put down for something he has no control
In closing, Persuasion is a powerful tool, both in trying to persuade others and being
The thorough development of characters, the novel's structure and cohesion, and the portrayal of the social order are qualities that loom essential in my mind as I read Persuasion. These attributes are by no means exhaustive. But I focused on qualities that are necessary for the novel's success, that not only are present in the novel, but also distinguish it from other genres.
The short story Girl written by Jamaica Kincaid is a mother’s compilation of advice, skills, and life experience to her daughter. The mother believes that her offer of practical and helpful guidance will assist her daughter in becoming a proper woman, and gaining a fulfilling life and respectable status in the community. Posed against the mother’s sincere concern for her daughter’s future is Sir Walter’s superficial affection to his daughters in the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. Due to his detailed attention for appearance and social rank, Sir Walter has been negligent to his daughters’ interests and fails to fulfill his responsibility as a father. Throughout both literary works, the use of language and tone towards persuasive endeavors reveals the difference in family dynamics and the success of persuasion on the character’s transformation.
In order to analyze Austen’s treatment of class system in Persuasion, the novel can be split into two somewhat contradictory halves. Austen spends much of the first half of the novel attempting to convince the audience of the importance of a system of manners, upon...