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A 3 page essay that offers a rhetorical analysis of /"Guilt and Atonement," an essay by Njabulo S. Ndebele that discusses South African society and its future after apartheid. The writer summarizes the author's points and describes the rhetorical devices used. No additional sources are cited.
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historical novel about a "young Afrikaner boy in the South African Defense Force" (Ndebele, 1995, p. 336). The problem that Ndebele found to be insurmountable with this project was that
he did not know the details of the main characters life. He writes, "All I had was a treasure house of stereotypes for which I had no use" (Ndebele 336).
The point that Ndebele makes in this introduction is that "South Africans dont know one another as a people" (Ndebele 336). He goes on to argue that it is
imperative that in facing the future of their nation, South Africans address this issue and this leads into reflection about South Africas apartheid past and what this legacy means to
both his black and white countrymen. In so doing, Ndebele offers considerable insight into how both races view the countrys past, as well as its present, and the implications
this has for the future. In so doing, he uses metaphor and analogy to describe the relations between the countrys white minority and its black majority. For example, Ndebele describes
the end of apartheid as being analogous to prison door being opened not by "victorious crowds pursuing a defeated enemy," but rather by the enemy "who had declared that he
was now a friend" (Ndebele 336-337). Furthermore, the enemy "still holds the keys" and "haggles over conditions" to suit his purposes (Ndebele 337). In describing the situation, Ndebele uses the
metaphor of "masks" to describe how stakeholders try to avoid the truth, asserting that it is the writers task "to crack the surface and break through to the often deliberately
hidden essence" (Ndebele 337). As this description suggests, Ndebeles principal persuasive rhetorical technique is logos, that is, an appeal to logic, as his arguments are reasonable, logical and based
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