Rhetorical Strategies In William Golding's Thinking As A Hobby
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Nabiha Asfar
In William Golding's "Thinking as a Hobby" he uses rhetorical strategies such as imagery, symbolism, and figurative language to support his claim, that there are three grades of thinking that build up society. He uses three statues from his childhood that symbolize the grades of thinking, the Venus de Milo represents the beauty and love of the world, the Leopard represents instincts, and the Thinker represents individuality. Golding takes pride in being a grade one thinker even stating that grade one thinking should be the goal of every individual. He tells stories from his childhood, adolescent years, and adulthood that devolved him into a grade one thinker.…show more content… He was told that he couldn't think by his teachers, eventually believing something wrong was with him because he couldn't think. To Golding most of his teachers were grade three thinkers because they're full of hypocrisy, arrogance, and prejudice. He uses a simile to compare them with politicians saying they're "as honest as most politicians intentions" Grade three thinking is what nine tenths of our population is made up of. It is a feeling rather than a thought. They don't think for themselves, instead just create solidarity with each other. The leopard statue repersents grade three thinking because leopards think on intsicts and do what they