Rosie Charles
AP ENG III
The Iroquois Creation Story
8/25/09
The Iroquois Creation Story is not only an interesting one, but to the people of that specific tribe, a true one also. This story uses many different rhetoric things and terms. For one, it most definitely uses logos. It also uses ethos, which is extremely important to any kind of document. Lastly and most outstandingly, this “myth” uses a heck of a lot of imagery.
The logos in this story have a lot to do with logic. To some readers, this myth, so to speak, may not have any kind of logic. But as stated before, this story is what the native people of that tribe believed and considered logical. To them The Iroquois Creation Story makes perfect sense and every bit of it is true. I, as a reader, have to put myself into the correct audience mode and not be too critical by comparing my beliefs to theirs.
This story has amazing credibility. Who better to read a Native American myth from than a Native American himself? David Cusick was the first Native American to record on his own the founding myths of his people (logos). Cusick actually lived in that time period. Also, which seems to me to be the most important, Cusick really believed in the myth that is told in this article. In most other articles or pieces, the author giving the information really has no real emotional, mental, or physical connections to the subject. By having someone who really relates to the subject, it makes reader more comfortable with the subject. Also it helps with paying attention also.
In this story imagery is what makes the myth distinct. While reading this story, the reader can actually visualize exactly what the author is portraying, and vividly too. For instance, when the author explains exactly how and why the “evil twin” decides to be birthed out off the underarm and not the womb. By the words that he uses (diction), and the way he places them, readers can picture exactly what is going on in the story.
As stated before, this story and/or “myth’, is not just interesting, but it serves a purpose. The purpose is to not only inform, as the author did. The purpose is to also relate and to give readers a better understanding of things that were, once, never understood.
Nice, now start giving specific, direct quotes, from the text. It's not enough to say, "reading this story, the reader can actually visualize exactly what the author is portraying, and vividly too...By the words that he uses (diction), and the way he places them, readers can picture exactly what is going on in the story." YOu must break down how that happens.
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