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How does your author build an argument throughout the book?

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How does your author build an argument throughout the book?

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My author builds an argument throughout the book by presenting events that took place in Louie's life. All of the things that happened in Louie's life helped the author to develop the argument that "dignity is as essential to human life as food, water and oxygen". Going from a troublemaker, to a track superstar, to an Olympian, to an airman, to a prisoner in Japanese POW camps. Each specific detail of his life played a crucial role in the development of the argument.  The author describes the pain that Louie went through in all of his life which really helps the fact that dignity is a very essential thing in one's life. For Louie to survive through the POW camps and the endless beatings took a lot. After all that he went through it seems nearly impossible for his dignity to still be in tact but it was. This is exactly how the author supports their claim. Louie was constantly beat, starved, deprived of water,  put through countless hours of work but he never lost his dignity. There were many tough hardships that brought him close to losing his self worth but he was able to keep it. It was the little things that allowed him to keep it such as stealing something as simple as a pencil box. Just the act of defiance was everything. The author did a great job describing just how hard, and important, it is to keep one's sense of self worth. At one point the author says "Louie and Phil were left in the most desperate physical hardship, without food or water or shelter. But on Kwajalein, the guards deprived them of something deeper: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness. To be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, leaving victims in a state of profound wretchedness and loneliness, unable to hang on to hope" (pg 140). This single quote basically summarizes the author's entire argument.The ability for a man to hold onto their dignity and sense of self worth is more important than anything else in life. The author uses Louie's life and all the traumas he faced to develop a very strong and powerful argument.

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What elements of diction, syntax, and tone help enhance the argument?

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What elements of diction, syntax, and tone help enhance the argument?

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For the most part, the author uses a sophisticated diction and syntax throughout the book. This really helps to enhance the argument because it makes it more intelligent and reliable. The choice of words used by the author really helped build and develop the argument. Even the author's main argument, "dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen" has diction in it. The diction and vocabulary the author used, greatly helped the enhancement of his argument. One specific example is when the author says "At Omori, life became immeasurably better" (pg 182). The author could have just as easily said "a lot better" but instead she used the word "immeasurably" to show just how much better it was. The tone also helps greatly to enhance the argument. The author does not always use the same definite tone  which helps to create more of a persuasive and appealing approach. The author often times change the tone and use one that fits in with what is currently happening in the book. One specific tone is is hope. Although the conditions Louie struggled with in the book were very troublesome, the author always maintained a hopeful tone. To show a hopeful tone, the author includes a certain event from Louie's time in the camps. The author says wrote "When Kawamura was off duty, another guard came. He launched himself at Louie, ramming a stick into his face as if trying to put out his eyes. When Kawamura saw Louie's bloody face, he asked who'd done it, then sped away, furious. Later, he returned, opened Louie's cell dor a crack, and proudly pointed outside. There stood the guard who'd abused Louie, his forehead and mouth heavily bandaged. He never guarded the cell again." (pg154). This quote represents a hint of hope in the story. Hope that not every Jap out there isn't totally bad. Hope that there are more people like Kawamura. The author includes this part because it shows a hopeful tone and helps support the argument. Another part the author includes to show a hopeful tone is when the American B-29's flew over head. She wrote "Louie had never seen a plane like this. Then a new prisoner said it was an American bomber called a B-29. A cheer rang out. Men shouted, 'B-29! B-29!' It was the most beautiful thing Louie had ever seen" (pg 184). This really showed that there was finally hope that the war might end. By  having this quote the author really helps support her hopeful tone. All these elements, including tone, syntax, and diction really help to create a more persuasive argument.

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What literary and rhetorical devices are used? How do they help enhance the argument? 

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What literary and rhetorical devices are used? How do they help enhance the argument? 

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The author uses many literary and rhetorical devices that significantly enhance the author's argument. A rhetorical device is even used in the author's argument that "dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen". The author used a simile to represent her argument. The author also often used similes, metaphors, fallacies, slippery slopes, anecdotes, repetition and many other devices to convey meaning into the argument. One time, when the author was explaining how essential one's dignity is in life she uses metaphors to express the importance of it. She explained how "The loss of it can carry a man off as surely as thirst, hunger, exposure, and asphyxiation, and with greater cruelty. In places like Kwajalein, degradation could be as lethal as a bullet" (pg 141).  This quote shows just how important dignity is by using similes to express it. By using these analogies, the author very easily gets her point across about how important dignity and self worth is.

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What types of appeals are used? How do they help enhance the argument? Pg 141

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What types of appeals are used? How do they help enhance the argument? Pg 141

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The types of appeals used in Unbroken would include both pathos and ethos. The author does a great job of using these appeals to really strengthen the argument that "dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen". She also used many other types of appeals including; worst fears, honor, patriotism, love, anecdotal, religion, statistics, core values, tradition and history. She used many of these appeals throughout the book to really help develop the argument.  The author often used emotional appeal the most. Using emotional appeal was a great way to enhance the argument because many events that took place in Louie's life were very emotional. Louie endured a lot of pain throughout his time in the POW camps and it really took a lot to keep his dignity. Through all the mental, physical, and emotional pain, Louie somehow managed to keep his dignity. The author's appeal to patriotism and honor is also present throughout the book. At one point the author describes a specific event in which Louie was be interrogated in the camps. She wrote "What did he know about the E-model? Nothing, he replied. It was a lie; D-model Super Man had undergone upgrades that effectively made it an E. How do you operate the radar? Louie knew the answer, but replied that as a bombardier, he wouldn't know" (pg 140). During Louie's interrogation, he lied about not knowing certain things. He knew this could get him seriously injured or even killed but he did it anyway to protect his country. He was showing patriotism and honor by giving false answers and fulfilling his duty as a soldier. This also greatly helped the author's argument because this example and these appeals to honor and patriotism allowed Louie's dignity to remain intact. This is because one's dignity is extremely important in life and the author does a great job of using these appeals to support this. By appealing to both credibility, emotions, honor, and patriotism,  the author does a considerable job developing a good, solid argument.

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How does the author organize the ideas? Does this organization play a role in how the argument is built?

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How does the author organize the ideas? Does this organization play a role in how the argument is built?

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The author organizes the ideas by events in Louie’s life. She describes and talks all about Louie’s life before arriving at the POW camps. She talks about how Louie had started out as quite the troublemaker, then became a track superstar. Louie had been very close to competing in the olympics but he instead enlists in the army air corps after WWII starts. Soon after, on one of his missions, his plane gets shot down and him and only two other survive. After being stranded on the ocean for nearly 47 days they are eventually captured by Japanese and brought to POW camps. All these events leading up to Louie’s time in the POW camps are very important in the argument. The author's argument is that "dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen". All events that took place in Louie's  past play a rather significant role in the author's argument. The argument is not yet present in the events leading up to the POW camps but they all play an important role. By telling the story of Louie's life before the camps and during his time in the camps the author really emphasizes what is takes keep one's dignity throughout it all. The journey Louie went through from being an Olympian to an Airman to a Castaway to a captive play a huge role in the author's argument. Louie was tortured and beat to a great extent, and endured pain worse than anyone could imagine. He survived long past the point of which he should have died. This is because he had kept his dignity through it all. The author specifically explains how "The stubborn retention of it (dignity), even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can keep a man alive long past the point when he should have died" (pg 141). The loss of one's dignity can kill a man as surely as any other type of pain or torture but it can also keep a man alive long past the point of which he should have died. This really helps to show how important one's dignity and self worth is in life and greatly helps to support the author's argument.

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What is the main argument that the author is trying to prove?

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What is the main argument that the author is trying to prove?

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Laura Hillenbrand is trying to prove that "dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen."