AP Lang 6 February 2012 SOAPSTone, Toolbox, and Responses for A Web of Brands and Live Free and Starve

A Web of Brands Speaker -The speaker of this story is Naomi Klein, who is a strongly advocates exposing what globalization did to communities around the world, mainly during the 1930s. In addition, Klein is a writer who notes the effects of brand names on different workers. Occasion -The occasion of this essay is the after-effect of globalization. During the early 1900s and even late 1800s, America had started its globalization and industrialization craze. This craze, in turn, affected workers who had to make products to ship. Working conditions in the 1930s were poor, to the point where many workers died doing their jobs due to unsafe working conditions. Another occasion was the effect of unfair labor on workers in Asia who couldnt even identify who employed them. Audience -The intended audience is for anyone who wishes to educate themselves on the growing issues of poor working conditions around the world, which have been going on since the being of industrialization. Purpose -The purpose of this essay was to educate readers on poor working conditions. Many Americans and many of the readers of this story would assume that, before reading, working conditions around the world are like American working conditions: controlled and safe. The purpose of this essay was to expose that that image is a faade. Subject -The subject of this piece is globalization and the effect that it had on various cities and workers. Tone -The tone of this piece is sympathy towards those who the reader cannot help. The working conditions for the women in Asia were terrible, so they rebelled and lost their jobs. The author was sympathetic towards them because she could only ask them who they worked for, rather than helping them all gets jobs to survive. Live Free and Starve Speaker -The speaker of this essay is Chitra Divakaruni. She is also a woman who writes about the effects of globalization, but tends to focus more on the aspect of child laborers and what effects the laws of America have on it. Occasion -The occasion of this piece is stirred by the United States bill called the Sanders Indentured Child Labor Import Bill. This bill allowed the US to issue a detention order on items being suspected of being made by child laborers working in poor conditions. Audience

-The intended audience of this piece would be for Americans who are all for the Sanders Bill, yet have not considered what the bill might actually do to the children working in poor job conditions. This essay is intended to educate those Americans. Purpose -The purpose of this essay was to open the readers mind to recognize that putting children out of the jobs they have, even though they are in poor working conditions, would make them worse off in the long run. These children had depended on these jobs for a place to stay or for a steady supply of food. Banning the products these children made would put them out of work, and onto the cold streets of poverty. Subject -The subject of this story is the effect that banning products made by children under poor working conditions would have on those child laborers. Tone -The tone of this piece is more informative and filled with pathos. The speaker informs the audience of what they should be aware of by using a tone created to evoke pity out of the audience. A Web of Brands Rhetorical Form -Narrative, because the speaker uses the pronoun I -Cause and Effect, because the author describes what the causes of globalization are (growing Industries and move job availabilities) yet then describes the effects of globalization (high job demand but low job supply, which made those who hired able to make their own terrible wage with poor working conditions that the workers had to endure if they wanted the job) Style -Diction: the author uses many brand names, which many readers may not be aware of; in addition, the author uses easy to understand words, such as perched and compensation -Syntax: many important key factors of the story are led into at the start of a sentence, then preceded by a colon; very few short sentences, many long sentences -Tone: sympathy towards those who the reader cannot help. The working conditions for the women in Asia were terrible, so they rebelled and lost their jobs. The author was sympathetic towards them because she could only ask them who they worked for, rather than helping them all gets jobs to survive. Rhetorical Devices -Rhetorical questions: but what can they do? -Parallelism: Molsons beer, Hyundai cars and EZ Rock FM -Repetition: of the key worlds globalization, factory, workers Live Free and Starve Rhetorical Form - Narrative, argumentative essay; author uses pronoun of I, yet also tries to persuade the audience on the issue -Cause and Effect, the author shows what the Sanders Bill would do while in effect, then shows what effect the bill would really have on the children involved in it; the author then makes the audience decided whether or not the bill is good for the children Style -Diction: simple words, such as free, happy, applauded, harsh, etc.

-Syntax: sentences designed to make a point are rhetorical questions; use of - within sentences to connect ideas; sentences with most kick are short: I am not so sure. -Tone: more informative and filled with pathos. The speaker informs the audience of what they should be aware of by using a tone created to evoke pity out of the audience. Rhetorical Devices -Rhetorical question: are we willing to shoulder that responsibility?; But what would life have been like for Nimai if an anti-child labor law had prohibited my mother from hiring him?; But where are the schools in which they are to be educated all questions beg for the reader to draw the conclusion the author wants. -Allusion: the author briefly mentions an old psychologist named Abraham Maslow, who had the idea of the hierarchy of needs Thesis Location - In the essay A Web of Brands, the thesis lies towards the end of the story; More and more over the past four years, we in the West have been catching glimpses of another kind of global village, where the economic divide is widening and cultural choices narrowing. -In the essay Live Free and Starve, the thesis lies in the beginning of the last paragraph: A bill like the one weve just passed is of no use unless it goes hand in hand with programs that will offer a new life to these newly released children. Casual Relationships -Both stories relate to the growing issue of globalization. One main connection between the pieces is how Naomi Klein writes about the poor working conditions of the Asian women who were left jobless after protesting against their poor working conditions. Chitra Divakaruni wrote about the poor working conditions and how it would affect those workers who would be put out of jobs. Klein offers a solid example of people put out by poor working conditions, which Chitra Divakaruni proposes what would occur to those workers. Figurative Language and Irony - Within A Web of Brands, Klein wrote: Many other buildings like it have long since been boarded up, glass panes shattered, smokestacks holding their breath This sentence personifies the smokestacks while giving the reader a great mental image of the town being described. In addition, Klein wrote about the bald naked mannequins, which gives another mental image. It was ironic, within Kleins story, that the very items that destroyed the lives and living conditions of the people she encountered were made into large items to be displayed throughout the town (i.e. the thimble and the lamppost steel figures). -Within Live Free and Starve, Chitra Divakaruni discovered the irony that child labor is a terrible thing, but without it the children involved would not be able to stay alive. One piece of figurative language that Divakaruni wrote was describing the amount of money Nimai passed to his father as the bulk of his earnings. This tries to create the illusion that child labor made Nimai a lot of money.