Scared Latino Children

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Monsters and ghosts are mythical creatures. Nonetheless, many monsters and ghosts in the folklore of Latin America, which is retold in scary Latino bedtime stories, continue to haunt the dreams of innocent Latino children. In 2015 Donald J. Trump began his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination with a vicious screed against Mexican immigrants, and ever since that moment, a new bogeyman has been added to the repertoire of scary Latino bedtime stories. The name is The Donald. Relentlessly, The Donald, not unlike a furious dragon, spews threats and insults against the Latino minority in the USA, which renders Latino children scared. Scared Latino children, whose parents are verbally attacked by the president, are the centremost subject …show more content…

It is claimed that the current Commander in Chief is a villain with the emotive grounds that threats and insults are spewed by the president. Ultimately, the metaphor used as the grounds of the claim reveals irony because the president is ridiculed, which harmonises suitably with the depiction of “The Donald” as a villain. Furthermore, the metonymy itself is an indication of the rhetorical devices irony and satire. Naturally, the implicit warrant is that only a villain spews threats and insults to be heard by children. Consequently, a foregrounded appeal of the article, whose presence counterbalance the fact that some readers might asses the ethos to be at a low level, is the pathos appeal because the article presents how children is affected through emotive language. Moreover, the fact that the article primarily focuses on Latino children is evident in the following passage although the argument put forward comprises all age groups: “When Mr. Trump […] declares Mexican immigrants to be murderers, his rhetorical daggers strike at the collective Latino psyche. We’re offended, we’re wounded and we’re angry. “I’m afraid someone is going to hurt him,” my 10-year-old daughter pronounced recently.” Firstly, it is claimed by the author that the president’s rhetoric strike at the collective Latino psyche because he declares immigrants to be murderers. In this passage the grounds, which is a subordinate clause, is placed before the claim, which is a main clause, to elucidate that Mr. Trump’s rhetoric is offensive. Lastly, the argumentation is strengthened by explicitly including the warrant through use of a tripling. Subsequently,

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