Marcus Rashford is a 22-year old Black and are playing football on the England national team. He is the youngest player to score in his first Senior International match. He was grown up with his mother who did not have the posibillity to pay bills and buy food. They got food from the breakfast clubs, free school meals and getting the kind of neightbours and coaches. He wants people to help the poor people and be kind to them, because at one time he was the poor kid.

• Find examples of the rhetorical appeal ethos in the letter. Explain how Marcus Rashford uses ethos to strengthen his argument.

  1. (200,000 children according to Food Foundation estimates). - he do talk about that he wonders if those 200,000 children will ever be proud enough of their country to pull on the England national team shirt one day and sing the national anthem from the stand.

  2. To put this pandemic in to perspective, from 2018-2019, 9 out of 30 children in any given classroom were living in poverty in the UK. This figure is expected to rise by an additional 1 million by 2022. In England today, 45% of children in Black and minority ethnic groups are now in poverty. This is England in 2020... - he use it to make it clear that it is obvious that his thoughts about this is real.

  3. I also know from talking to people that there is a 2-child- per-family limit, meaning someone like my mum would only have been able to cover the cost of 2 of her 5 children. In April 2020, 2.1 million people claimed unemploymentrelated benefits. This is an increase of 850,000 just since March 2020.

  4. He also have some credibility because he have been a part of the poverty for years.

• Find an example of a rhetorical question in the letter. Explain how Marcus Rashford uses the rhetorical question. What effect does it have on the reader?

  1. Do you know how much courage it takes for a grown man to say, ‘I can’t cope’ or ‘I can’t support my family’? - he use it to make the reader understand the thought about it.

  2. Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to bed hungry? - he makes it clearly that no one can answer that it is okay for a child go to bed hungry.