A strong analysis should carefully consider the parts of the original and synthesize them into a new text: your essay. A successful analysis presents useful, interesting, and significant conclusions that teach the reader something new about the text being analyzed. So for this essay, your assignment is to create a rhetorical analysis of a written piece, which will teach your reader the significance of how the author has constructed that piece and its effects on the reader.
Analyze a set of elements in an argument (claim, support, warrant, ethos, pathos, logos, etc.—use Toulmin or rhetorical appeals here) or complementary strategies (how the author uses metaphor, irony, definition, biased language and diction, etc.) from Killers of the Flower Moon so far:
This essay should be 4-6 pages long and follow MLA formatting. Be sure to include a Works Cited page, particularly if you do any additional research related to the authors’ sources.