"The Ugly Tourist" Rhetorical Analysis
An analysis of Kincaid's rhetorical use in 'The Ugly Tourist' ‘The Ugly Tourist’ writes about how one feels about being a tourist. In the essay, Jamaica Kincaid argues that tourists are “ugly” and that they’re ruining the lives of other people by making them envious of the tourists’ wealth and ability to travel to other places. She presents her argument by using different writing strategies such as the use of pathos, logos, ethos, irony, tone, and diction. Kincaid uses pathos to emphasize her points and evoke emotions in her readers. She attacks her readers by using dictions such as “ugly”, “lonely”, and “empty” to make them feel guilty for being a tourist. In this quote “An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pushing here and there to gaze at this and taste that…” (Kincaid, 200), she emphasizes her main argument that tourists are empty and lonely, how they’re finding satisfaction by look...