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Rhetorical Analysis Of Lee's Parents
By telling a story of Lee’s mother, the author demonstrated that the native people looked down upon foreign people who had difficulties to live in a new circumstance and could not speak English well to express what they wanted and thought. With the discrimination from the native people, Lee’s family struggled a lot in this community. The audience is the people who did not show respect to the foreigners and did not help them overcome the difficulties.
The logos shows at the beginning of the article. “The town, like seven others in New Jersey, has passed laws requiring that half of any commercial sign in a foreign language be in English”(1). It reflected that the city showed its indifference to foreigners and forced them to fit in the English

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