Introduction:
I am going to be evaluating the rhetorical decisions utilized by Olga Khazan in an article found in The Atlantic, about the effects of the Coronavirus on the low-income working class population. The coronavirus pandemic is something we have all come to know and hate; evidently, some more than others. It’s no doubt that this global pandemic has affected each and every person in some way, big or small, but who are the people this crisis has shattered the most? In the article I’m analyzing today, “How the Coronavirus could create a New Working Class”, by Olga Khazan, found in The Atlantic, she highlights the class the coronavirus has affected the most, the working class, and how this could possibly create a new “class”, with a large rise in populism. It is fairly evident to most people that the coronavirus pandemic has hit the low wage working-class and minority workers the hardest. Unfortunately, the class you belong to has much to do with a person’s risk of being infected and even more, being laid-off. Khazan delves into this idea and solidifies her point through the use of several different rhetorical devices including, ethos, statistics and pathos within the use of anecdotes.
Works cited:
Khazan, Story by Olga. “How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 28 Apr. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-class-war-just-beginning/609919