The usage of this evidence is overwhelming and upsetting to the audience because it is the reality of how we view each other including the way we see ourselves. One example mentioned in the article is that an image of a muscled person promotes a lack of knowledge. Our culture has promoted different stereotypes based on how someone looks or what they do for a living.
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By describing how to work, education, and social class depend on the way people think about themselves as well as other people “more than once I’ve heard a manager label his workers as a ‘bunch of dummies”(276). Pathos is another rhetorical analysis that Mike Rose uses in his article. This shows that his point of view is not based on just his personal experience but on other people’s as well. Showing how the author observed different types of blue-collar and service workers in action, gives him a bigger image of the topic as well as helping him conclude that each of them has a skill that takes a lot of mind power to master.
It gives Rose the authority, trust of his audience as well as grabbing their attention. By having the author share his personal background story on the topic of blue-collar intelligence. In addressing his uncles work in detail at the General Motors factory and shows the amount of intelligence that was required of him as he rose from being in the production line to supervising paint jobs. Mike proclaims that his mother had to use intelligence skills such as memorization and coordination when handling the customers as well as the restaurant, “What I observed in my mother’s restaurant defined the world of adults, a place where competence was synonymous with physical work”(274). Mike Rose begins the article by using ethos when telling a personal story “ When I was growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950’s”(272) observing his mother as a waitress in coffee shops and family restaurants. This article is effective because throughout the usage of pathos, and ethos Mike Rose is getting his stance about intelligence across regardless of where it is learned it should be valued. Through the use of rhetorical analysis, Mike Rose is able to get his purpose across by targeting a specific audience. Rose believes that intelligence should not be measured by the level of education but instead by the idea of how someone masters their job. He claims that blue-collar as well as other service jobs require intelligence which is not being seen by the rest of the people in society. According to Rose intelligence is defined by the amount of schooling a person has completed(276). In the article, “Blue Collar Brilliance,” by Mike Rose, challenges the point of view of how intelligence is measured.
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