Friday, September 21, 2012

Routes of Man: Rhetorical Modes Ch. 1 - 3

Ch. 1

  • Narration:  Setting in Peru; he tells stories (historic stories), for example on pages 20-21. Characters: Miguel, Rollando, Braulio. uses dialog; tells all of his stories/traveling experiances when it is relative to the topic.
  • Cause & Effect: pg. 42 he lists the effects that roads will have on the community in both environmental and social effects.
  • Definition:  pg. 66 "scabbes were paves ways of stone that often used a limestone mortar" he defines many of the native words such as scabbes and shipapv (pg. 68)
  • Description:  Pg. 59 "the next day began with a baby's cry and ended with the raor of chain saws". The roar of chain saws were the men cutting down the mahogony. Figurative desc.: metaphore- pg. 70 "channel for life's breath". Roads allow for life to spread/expand/(life/way of living grows and improves)
  • Exemplification:  pg. 68 " Archaelogists" quote. He uses archaeologists points of views for examples on the topic on whether or not the community will benifit form roads.
Ch. 2
  • Definition: pg. 71 "chaddar" - trail upon the frozon surface. pg. 82 "pujas"
  • Narration:  tells the story of Lobzang Tashi Pg. 76, and how he owuld go with children on the journey to Chaddar, which was a major event in the community. He mainly talks about the travel on the chaddar and all of the harships that went along with it.
  • Description:  the "chaddar" is described throughout the chapter. How it "changes constantly" p. 99 and all the "open water", "patches of ice" and "loud creaks and whumps - deep water movments of frozen, fractured ice." and walking barefoot on the ice p. 101
Ch. 3
  • Definition: AIDS p. 118; disease spred y "sleeping with prostitutes" (sexually transmitted disease). Described how it was transferred.The african language is decribed too such as words like "haraka!" pg. 122.

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