Joyce Carol Oates The Cruelest Sport Summary - 1020 Words

American writer Joyce Carol Oates is an expository writer that provides a successful informative piece about the dangers of boxing. This sport has been shadowed by events that influence athletes to prolong their careers with dangerous intuitions. In â€Å"The Cruelest Sport,† Oates implements exposition, narration, modes, and tone to effectively persuade her audience of the threats boxing impose. First and foremost, Oates exposition in â€Å"The Cruelest Sport† implements direction for how her information is to be presented. Oates explains that, â€Å"It survives as the most primitive and terrifying of contests: two men, near-naked, fight each other in a brightly lit, elevated space roped in like an animal pen† (Oates, 623), which gives her audience an†¦show more content†¦By introducing this quote, Oates audience can reflect on the feeling of how daunting boxing can be and gives the persuasion to her audience of the dangers in boxing. In addition, Oate s introduces the social aspect of how sport has impacted Muhammed Ali, that shows her audience the external aspect of boxing is cruel as well. By providing the anecdote of Ali and his refusal to join the army, her argument becomes stronger, thus showing the shadowed aspect of boxing, â€Å"Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.† (Ali, 627) Ruth Cullham said it best, â€Å"Knowing what to write goes hand in hand with knowing how to write,† (Cullham, 554) explaining in his article the best way to present the best argument in a narrative and Oates format throughout her piece exemplifies this statement. In turn, Oates conveys her argument with narration throughout the text hence making her argument successful. Moreover, the implementation of having two well-known fighters such as Muhammed Ali and Billy Costello, heavyweight champion and lightweight champions respectively, provided reinforcement in Oates rhetorical modes. The use of pathos in Oates argument was integral and building a foundation on Muhammed Ali’s Parkinson’s disease proved to be effective. â€Å"Predate by a decade the long, grueling, punishing fights of Ali’s later career, whose accumulative