The Death Of Benny Paret Rhetorical Analysis

“The Death of Benny Paret” is a invoking article that allows the reader to be surprised, sad, and makes the reader somewhat think about how it felt to be Benny Paret. It gives an inside look on what being a boxer takes.The author, Norman Mailer, uses diction, detail, and imagery to describe the death of Paret. Paret was a “welterweight champion”, which in layman’s term just means he was a boxer. Throughout the article Norman Mailer mainly uses details to help give the reader an image of Paret’s death.

As I explained Norman Mailer, the author, uses details all throughout the article to allow the reader to create an image in their head of Part passing away. An example of his use of details is when he says “Paret got trapped in a corner. Trying to duck away, his left arm and his head became tangled on the wrong side of the top rope.”. In that sentence Mailer is describing how Paret is in the ring fighting another person and when he tries to duck his arm and head get caught in the rope. Which tells the reader he mostly is

Mailer also says “he went down like a large ship which turns on end and slides second by second into its grave.” giving an image of Paret falling down hard and fast like a ship. The use of diction is actually in those sentences too. Mailer uses words like “large ship” and “psychic” that gives an emotional feeling of being scared and sad of Paret going down. As you can see Mailer uses many different strategies to explain the effect of Paret’s death. The use of diction, details, and imagery is so strong in this article that it allows the reader to feel sad, mad, shocked that Paret died in the