CCA Rhetorical Analysis 0:30 a.m. by Sanz Edwards https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg Maya Angelou en-us 2019-03-06 16:41:50 UTC 2023-06-02 09:40:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Pathos - Josh, Brian, Jay, Aaron https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477544 “The minister took to the alter and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort”. In this example although the dark gloom is consuming everyone's feelings, she finds comfort in the minister's sermon. She uses an easily relatable experience when she says, “watching them was a little like peeping through a window when the shade is not drawn flush”. She feels scared and finding it hard to understand and accept why everyone is sad but comes to understand why they feel that way. When she sees the dead body, she as a child is lost and confused. Maya goes on to say, “I looked down on the stark face that seemed suddenly so empty and evil. It knew secrets that I never wanted to share”. She is accepting death, and accepting that one day, she too will be in a coffin facing death the same way; by letting someone else bury their evil secrets and letting them go.  ]]> 2019-03-06 16:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477544 Ethos-- Peyton, Omama, Airy, and Dong https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477566 Maya Angelou uses ethos in chapter twenty-two of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Ethos is a credible and ethical appeal to an argumentative piece that persuades the audience. During the sermon the minister said, “Thou art my good and faithful servant with whom I am well pleased... this day might be your last... make yourself right with God...” A sermon is a talk on a religious subject especially one given during a church service, in this case a funeral. The minister is trying to give an ethical appeal when he mentions God because he is relating it to moral principles which define the difference between right or wrong. Angelou has credibility because of the details she gives which builds the connection towards the audience and herself. Some of these details include when she said, “…the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather in green leaves wilting over yellow flowers. I couldn’t distinguish whether I was smelling the clutching sound of misery or hearing the cloying odor of death.” The description she gives of her past memory makes the audience believe she is more credible. Having such extensive details brings out more appeal to her story persuading the audience to listen to her.  ]]> 2019-03-06 16:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477566 Logos-- Kiara Colby Tirso In Maya Angelou’s , “Caged Bird”, her usage of logos helped us understand the view of a child attending a funeral. She described all the details that occurred in the funeral and how she saw the affects happen to people. She says, “ Mr. Taylor and the high church officials were the first to file around the bier to wave farewell to the departed and get a glimpse of what lay in store for all men. Then on heavy feet, made more ponderous by the guilt of the living viewing the dead, the adult church marched up to the coffin and back to their seats. Their faces, which showed apprehension before reaching the coffin, revealed, on the way down the opposite aisle, a final confrontation of their fears. Watching them was a little like peeping through a window when the shade is not drawn flush. Although I didn’t try, it was impossible not to record their roles in the drama.” During her encounter at her first funeral, she came to a realization that she is mortal, that death will come to her as well. For example in the text it says, “ But on that onerous day, oppressed beyond relief, my own mortality was borne in upon me on sluggish tides of doom.” At a young age she understood that her, as well as everybody, will die sooner or later since it is part of life. In the next paragraph , the ministers says, “ this day might be your last.” This quote is very logical because our life span is unknown. We can never be sure if we will have another day, another month, another year, of life. It is unknown. We can die at any moment and this a fact that cannot be denied. Maya Angelou did a great job showing logos in her essay, giving us, as readers a good insight attending a funeral as a child and understanding the meaning of funeral and what realizations come with. https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477617 2019-03-06 16:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338477617 Intro—Mahlia, Sarah, Jacob, Sergio https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338478219         Maya Angelou wrote an autobiography about her first encounter with mortality in her book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Setting a somber tone, Angelou expressed her initial thoughts on the adult concept of death. Instead of shying away from the unknown concept that she had just learned, she confronted it with a morbid curiosity. “I had never considered before that dying, death, dead, passed away were words and phrases that make might be even faintly connected with me.” While the author was looking back on her first experience, the tone of the passage indicates that since her first encounter with death, she has had other similar experiences in life. With the knowledge given during the brief introduction to the author, her reputation as a well respected African-American activist gives her a strong ethos (Personal credibility.) The intended audience is the individual who is faced with the fear of mortality and in that moment, realizes that they are not alone. Someone who is as well respected as Maya Angelou has experienced the same situation and was able to put it into words so that others can read her story. The audience holds the values of curiosity and the fear of the unknown. Maya Angelou appeals to these points through painting her own picture of her first encounter with death. During this narrative, Angelou had a revelation on the nature of mortality. Her stance was very curious and then turned into discomfort: “It would have been easier to see her through the gauze. But instead, I looked down on the stark face that seemed suddenly so empty and evil. It knew secrets that I never wanted to share.”]]> 2019-03-06 16:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338478219 Purpose https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338484968 Purpose—Chris, Yolanda 
Maya Angelou’s purpose was to entertain her audience with her observation that death is inevitable. The message Maya was trying to give was that at the age of 13 she had to face to the reality people die at any age. She attended the funeral of a neighbor who gave her a brooch and grieved her with other mourners. She recognizes death can happen at anytime to anyone including herself and comes to terms with the subject of mortality. Maya wanted to tell us life is precious and to cherish each day.

]]> 2019-03-06 16:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338484968 Purpose—Chris, Yolanda https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338485800 Maya Angelou’s purpose was to entertain her audience with her observation that death is inevitable. The message Maya was trying to give was that at the age of 13 she had to face to the reality people die at any age. She attended the funeral of a neighbor who gave her a brooch and grieved her with other mourners. She recognizes death can happen at anytime to anyone including herself and comes to terms with the subject of mortality. Maya wanted to tell us life is precious and to cherish each day.]]> 2019-03-06 16:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sanz_edwards/2efgvvp8xekg/wish/338485800