Marriage is one of the controversial topics that, when written without quality information then it may mislead may people, especially the youths. So many people would ask is there a better way to make a marriage last if it is noting the level of education or the income one gets at the end of the month (Fischer& Sidney, p240). However, the author uses rhetoric to analyses the situations that involve the use of money as the contributing factor to marriage. There is also a reduction in the number of educated people in the middles class. The number and connotation are just rhetoric since most of the learned people steam either from the middle class (Gottweis, 2006). The author further uses a dimension design to arrive at the required conclusion that there is a disparity in the society that labels people as lazy depending on their level of education. The same way that marriage is considered to be one decline mode due to the difference in pay inequality. In revealing the ethical analysis and the disparities in the news article, then it will be able to note the rhetoric in the text. Though, there is a decline in the number of marriages; there is still hope that education plays an essential factor in actualizing the marriage.
Discussion
As a former economic writer, the author’s point of view is based on the economic shifts, and therefore, it does not accrue to any information on marriage. Although marriage and finance do not go hand in hand, there is the use of rhetoric in the context of the author. Gottweis, (2006) asserts that in his study of rhetoric that the phenomenon ethos originally refers to a particular character of a speaker as Aristotelian describes it. Therefore, the author feels that the marriage gap widens with income inequality (Peralta,p.1). The use of rhetoric in the text is evident when the author compares the difference in marriage and income inequality. More so income that is generated when two people marry is considered to be part of the family earnings and therefore not an individual. There is also the use of education to justify pay and working hours. Whereas a junior graduate might be considered lazy because of asking for fewer hours, their college counterpart might not be regarded as lazy in the same context.
Peralta is analyzing the context of marriage in the USA concerning education and earnings. However, the USA system and societal values do not acclimatize the earnings as per education, and this is the reason why people with minimum education do get paid less than those with higher educational attainment. Killingsworth, (2016) notes that the appeal to ethos as a selective revelation of character pertinent to the rhetorical world required at the moment and an appeal to pathos as appealing an alignment with the audience with the character invented. In this case, the characters of the articles are the people who are married and those that want to marry. Still, their earning and educational achievement do not allow them to fulfill their marital obligations.