The Road Harry Truman Character Analysis

Tajima, the central character of the story, is an interesting character to follow. His actions drive the story, and pulling it into the overwhelmingly dark and dreary ending note the story has. Tajima begins the story a bystander and a traveler, only wandering to see the world. When he meets the priest, a sense of bitterness for his own financial situation overtakes him, and he is overwhelmed with greed. He goes on to murder the priest, and lie his way into the man's wealth. He builds his future upon those lies, and finds himself in a prosperous and gluttonous lifestyle. Everything he has, his wife and child included, is a result of his vile actions on the boat in Kuana. Though one night, his celebratory and frivioulus life comes to an end

Harry Truman uses demonizing and strong language to emphasize the points and beliefs spoken about in the piece. In the fourth paragraph, Truman compares two ways of life. First, he speaks on the “free” way. He uses the word free repeatedly throughout the visual. He touches on the freedom of religion and politics, two things often held dearly to people. He uses empowering words like “Individual liberty”, and mentions freedom from “oppression”, which is a strong word that causes strong feelings. In his depiction of the other way of life, he uses strong and fear-inducing words. In a short paragraph, he uses, “forcibly”, “imposed”, “terror”, “controlled” and “suppression”. He also talks of the “oppressive” way of life, which connects to the freedom for it in the prior way of life.
When Truman uses these phrases, depicting the two lifestyles, he draws a line in the sand. He removes the concept of a politically gray area. Black and white, good and bad. By making one side group of people out to be happy and liberated heroes, and they other to be controlled and oppressed slaves, his audience has no doubts what side they’d rather be on. Both Truman’s word choice and rhetoric are powerful, and indeed served as a great example of good persuasive writing. It is not a far guess to say that many readers and listeners of the piece joined Truman’s side after listening to his convincing