Rhetorical Analysis Of Dying By Susie O Brien

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The recent death of Riley Hughes and numerous other deaths of babies arouses the attention of the public to the serious issue of anti-vaccination and whether or not parents should vaccinate their infants. In the opinion piece entitled "Don't let any more babies die because of anti-vaccination lobby" published in The Herald Sun on March 24, 2015, author Susie O'Brien targets especially the anti-vaccinators parents of the young children, in addition to the general adherents of it. Accordingly，it professes the opinion of the parents should definitely vaccinate their infants to preclude them from suffering from the fatal diseases. Consequently, the incipient tone that O' Breins used is distressed towards the fact of a number of babies died from …show more content…

Therefore, parents of infants or kids who do not vaccinated their son or daughter promptly will result in the possibility of suffering from the deadly diseases to be further higher. By stating "They are not just trendy tree, they are murderers." O' Breins utilizes exaggeration to provoke the reader to reject the anti-vaccination lobby. Similarly, O' Breins's rhetorical question"Would you kill a baby today? Would you take away his oxygen and let him suffocate to death?"directly addresses the reader, which provides a self-evidence to engage their agreement with the viewpoint of parents should vaccinate their infants in order to reduce the possibility of getting fatal diseases, along with provoking an incitement of feeling guilty and compunctions within the anti-vaccinators parents in effect. Furthermore, another compelling point to notice is the use of negative connotation "murderer" and "kill", accentuating the negative impacts anti-vaccinator parents will engender, which is increasing the possibility of dead from diseases. Consequently, it positions the anti-vaccinators parents attempting to arouse an awareness of self-examination and abandon their viewpoint of being against vaccination. Moreover, the visual text conveys a notion of getting vaccinations for young children is a matter of utmost urgency towards the parents who have not vaccinate their children, which portrayed though …show more content…

Accordingly, the author accentuates the government should take some actual actions, for instance, ensuring every pregnant woman get free vaccination and lifesaving shot instead of useless assurance. Moreover, O' Breins states "No jab, no play" policy should be extensively introduced to the children centre because it will prompt parents to vaccinate their children by giving them more pressure from the policy. Furthermore, it establishes the viewpoint of public especially government must take some actions to appeal the anti-vaccinators to accept vaccination by indicating what utility government can play to improve the situation, in addition to this, it persuades the government officer and anti- vaccinators by appealing to sense of justice in order to condemn the non-behavioral of the government to compel them to take some actions on this issue. O' Breins utilizes catchy anecdotal evidence of the notion that Harvey pointed out, aims to establish a source of information, which encourages the reader to have a awareness of justice, as well as believing in that the public are able to do something that is benefit for the dissemination of vaccination. Moreover, the illustrator portrays a sense of healthy and happiness through the image, which is indicated by the facial expressions of the two young teenagers. Thus,

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