On March 21st 2005, an article named Water Wars: Bottling up the World’s Supply of H2O appeared in the Seattle Times. The author of this article, Joshua Ortega, directed his main idea of the article, how the effect of bottled water on our nation and the world as a whole and the potential effects it has on the future of the earth, to the readers of the mentioned newspaper. Ortega wants us to change our viewpoint on bottled water and ultimately switch to the convenience of tap water.
With the help of many different rhetorical tools Joshua Ortega relays this message in a manner that he seems is best fit for this particular audience to make the switch from bottled water to tap water. He does this by painting intricate pictures in your mind using imagery, his diction is marvelous, and with the use of many ingenious analogies Ortega helps us realize that tap water really is better than bottled water.
3 comments:
I think there is no point to bottled water unless water from the tap is undrinkable. Here in Utah is great example. The water is terrible. I can see buying it here, but in Oregon the water is so good from the tap that it makes you so happy.
In your thesis you point out what Ortega is trying ot do but there is no mention of how he does this(what literary devices does he use).
The imagery and diction in Ortega's article were extremely persuasive and will be good tools to analyze. I also think that catching the readers attention with an interesting fact or question at the beginning of the paragraph could be helpful.
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