In this chapter the narrator talks about decorum, and how you should get the audience to like you. decorum basically means that, you have to be what the audience expects. A good example shown in page 48 is the climax of "8 Mile". The main character (Eminem) is talked into a rap competition, he goes all the way to the finals. Eminem wears the proper attire, and blends in with the audience, he then precedes to tell everyone that the opponent went to prep school. Which makes his turn sort of useless because Eminem blends in with public, more than him. in short words, Eminem's decorem was stronger than his adversary.
In the first chapter the narrator talks and explains about being rhetoric. He calls it a Matrix. He considers it, the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic, and it is bet used in an argument. It is also used in an act of leadership, has fizzled out in the 1800's due to academia, where they aren't allowed to believe in leaders. A few names who were rhetoric was Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, and Daniel Webster. He also says that he has created this book for a reason, to help us win arguments using logic with Aristotle's 3 methods. He also talks about seduction, and a chiasmus, which both help you with you're arguments. Seduction is considered as manipulation, which is half of an argument.
Today, I shall start on my summer reading, which I totally did not forget for half of the summer, but you know what they say, better late than never!
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