Soapstone Analysis:
Speaker: Frank Bruni, a writer for the NY Times since 2011. He has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. He reflects on diverse topics such as: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family, and friends accomplishments.
Occasion: Franki Bruni, in his article, "What Family Really Matter", explains how Elli ( his friend) mentors boys from Zimbabwe and helps their boys move into their dorm their first year of college. Franki Bruni explains "At the beginning of each school year, she’s likely to be helping one of her college-age boys move into his freshman dorm. At the end, she’s at a commencement, beaming as another of her boys finishes his four years and receives his diploma." Elli reminded him about The Synod of Bishops on the Family.
Audience: The intended audience is for "the church should relax its censure of divorce and remarriage, whether it should be more welcoming to unmarried couples, whether it should open its arms to the children of same-sex parents. A report is expected this weekend." The audience is for people who are affected by the above quote.
Purpose: Franki informs his audience on the issues in Th Roman Catholic Church.
Subject: Franki, exclaims how his friend, Elli mentors boys in Zimbabwe and puts them through college. Elli consider these boys her family even though she has never conceived a child.
Tone: This article's shows a informational tone. Franki explains the issues that Roman Catholic face and how it remind him of his friend Elli.
Speaker: Frank Bruni, a writer for the NY Times since 2011. He has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. He reflects on diverse topics such as: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family, and friends accomplishments.
Occasion: Franki Bruni, in his article, "What Family Really Matter", explains how Elli ( his friend) mentors boys from Zimbabwe and helps their boys move into their dorm their first year of college. Franki Bruni explains "At the beginning of each school year, she’s likely to be helping one of her college-age boys move into his freshman dorm. At the end, she’s at a commencement, beaming as another of her boys finishes his four years and receives his diploma." Elli reminded him about The Synod of Bishops on the Family.
Audience: The intended audience is for "the church should relax its censure of divorce and remarriage, whether it should be more welcoming to unmarried couples, whether it should open its arms to the children of same-sex parents. A report is expected this weekend." The audience is for people who are affected by the above quote.
Purpose: Franki informs his audience on the issues in Th Roman Catholic Church.
Subject: Franki, exclaims how his friend, Elli mentors boys in Zimbabwe and puts them through college. Elli consider these boys her family even though she has never conceived a child.
Tone: This article's shows a informational tone. Franki explains the issues that Roman Catholic face and how it remind him of his friend Elli.
Rhetorical Analysis of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos:
Frank Bruni uses a variety of different forms of arguments. He uses logos explaining what actually happened in Rome. He uses ethos by explaining how Elli uses credibility. She uses credibility by helping poor kids from Zimbabwe study in America and helping them get into college. He uses pathos to show the types of people that are faced with these issues.
Logos: "According to a survey by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, only one in three American Catholics believes that it’s sinful to live with a romantic partner outside of marriage. Only one in five believes that it’s sinful to get a divorce.While 44 percent of the respondents in that poll frowned on sexual relations between two men or two women, 39 percent didn’t.
And while respondents clearly viewed a family headed by a father and a mother who are married to each other as the ideal, most of them did notview it as the only acceptable situation. More than 80 percent were O.K. with divorced parents, single parents or unmarried parents living together. More than 65 percent were O.K. with gay or lesbian parents." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015)This shows logic because it explains the percentages of how many people parents were okay with different things.
Ethos: "At the beginning of each school year, she’s likely to be helping one of her college-age boys move into his freshman dorm. At the end, she’s at a commencement, beaming as another of her boys finishes his four years and receives his diploma.
The boys are from Zimbabwe, where Elli has spent extensive time over the last decade and where she met many poor, bright teenagers determined to study in America.
She not only guided them through the application and financial aid process, but also remained one of the central figures in their lives." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015) This shows credibility because Elli is considered a good person.
Pathos: "The church has made minimal progress since. If it’s still stuck on divorce, it’s still stuck in the past.
And if its discussion of virtue and rectitude is rooted in the architecture of a family and the labels its members wear — married, unmarried, straight, gay — it’s focused on the wrong things and missing the boat. It’s seeing family in terms that are much too narrow and having a conversation that’s much too small." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015) This appeals to emotions because it shows how people feel when gay people are being denied things.
Frank Bruni uses a variety of different forms of arguments. He uses logos explaining what actually happened in Rome. He uses ethos by explaining how Elli uses credibility. She uses credibility by helping poor kids from Zimbabwe study in America and helping them get into college. He uses pathos to show the types of people that are faced with these issues.
Logos: "According to a survey by the Pew Research Center earlier this year, only one in three American Catholics believes that it’s sinful to live with a romantic partner outside of marriage. Only one in five believes that it’s sinful to get a divorce.While 44 percent of the respondents in that poll frowned on sexual relations between two men or two women, 39 percent didn’t.
And while respondents clearly viewed a family headed by a father and a mother who are married to each other as the ideal, most of them did notview it as the only acceptable situation. More than 80 percent were O.K. with divorced parents, single parents or unmarried parents living together. More than 65 percent were O.K. with gay or lesbian parents." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015)This shows logic because it explains the percentages of how many people parents were okay with different things.
Ethos: "At the beginning of each school year, she’s likely to be helping one of her college-age boys move into his freshman dorm. At the end, she’s at a commencement, beaming as another of her boys finishes his four years and receives his diploma.
The boys are from Zimbabwe, where Elli has spent extensive time over the last decade and where she met many poor, bright teenagers determined to study in America.
She not only guided them through the application and financial aid process, but also remained one of the central figures in their lives." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015) This shows credibility because Elli is considered a good person.
Pathos: "The church has made minimal progress since. If it’s still stuck on divorce, it’s still stuck in the past.
And if its discussion of virtue and rectitude is rooted in the architecture of a family and the labels its members wear — married, unmarried, straight, gay — it’s focused on the wrong things and missing the boat. It’s seeing family in terms that are much too narrow and having a conversation that’s much too small." ("What Family Really Matters", 2015) This appeals to emotions because it shows how people feel when gay people are being denied things.