Rhetorical Analysis Of Let's Bring Warmth To The Homeless

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In the 2014 article "Let's bring warmth to the homeless", the writer shifts between a relaxed tone to urge Melbournians to create a community where the homeless are not 'invisible', to a serious tone to assert the rising issue of homelessness. Elise Elliot does this in order to encourage her fellow Melbournians to step out of their comfort zone and make a change to help the homeless in Melbourne. As the article was published in the number 1 leading Newspaper in Victoria, the Herald Sun, Elliot aimed to impact as many people as she can, she uses relatively informal language to do so allowing her to connect with her audience. She aims to connect with her audience to create an atmosphere where Melbournians have sympathy for the issue and want to change their ways to make a difference. By using an anecdote at the start of her article the writer directly engages the audience to a familiar person that they feel invested in, this allows them to want to make a change in the issue. Elliot …show more content…

People naturally look down on the homeless and think they can just go to Centrelink however Elliott proves this generalisation of the homeless wrong. She does this by using an expert from the National Welfare Rights Network, Gerard Thomas who explains that "these people don’t have photo ID, birth certificates, and a driver’s license." By using an expert the writer is able to portray to her audience that this is a problem where the homeless "just fall through the cracks." By the use of rebuttals Elliott is able to create a sympathetic mood towards the homeless that makes the audience want to make a change to the unfair

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