Rhetorical Analysis of Dubois - 1642 Words

Inspiring the Population Through his work, â€Å"Of Our Spiritual Strivings,† W.E.B. Dubois takes the reader on a journey through the typical black man’s eyes. He creates a new meaning of the African American man as he shares personal experiences and stories of the past alike. He plays upon the heart strings of every reader, no matter the race, with his literary knowledge of words, use of pathos, and stories of his past experience to pull in emotional ties to his work. The application of dualism allows the reader, who is most commonly white men, to choose a side to sympathize with, for Dubois gives the sense of double consciousness as the African and the American throughout his entire work. The very first thing to be stumbled upon by†¦show more content†¦He would never be able to see the entire picture of the world as the others in his class and in his life see it. This veil served as a film over his vision and in a way, it acted as a prison which he could never escape. Perhaps the thought of being in the veil prison could continue back into history when his ancestors were slaves in their own prison. This veil not only symbolized his own imprisonment, but also how the general population saw him. They never saw the whole picture, for they only saw the outside and never took the time to lift the veil and understand what lay beneath. In both situations, there are no bars or brick walls to be found, rather a higher power accounted for their solitude. This higher power represented by Dubois was the white population. Even after emancipation, the slaves were still captive. They worked only for a place to live and food to eat because they had no money to enter the world as working men in business or in anything other than their learned skill of farming and raising the household. Similarly, Dubois lives in a generation where the black man is free, yet he is still segregated in nearly everything he does. He claims how â€Å"The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land†(8). By writing this, he claims how America is still not perfect, yet no matter how far they have come, â€Å"the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people†(8). HisShow MoreRelatedMetaphors from Slavery to Post Emancipation: An Exploration of The Loophole of Retreat and The Veil1613 Words   |  7 PagesSlave Girl and â€Å"the Veil† in W.E.B. Dubois’ Sou ls of Black Folk and examine how the respective authors used these metaphors to code hidden meaning for the various types of readers. This paper will also explore how the use of metaphor changed and remained the same from 1861 when Incidents was written to 1903 when Souls debuted. Literary scholars have explored interpretations of â€Å"the Veil† and â€Å"the loophole of retreat† for years. â€Å"The Veil† comes from W.E.B. DuBois’ figurative metaphor that representsRead MoreIntroduction. 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