DearSammySosa10

= "Dear Sammy Sosa" Rhetorical Analysis = By:
 * Rosnellys Perez**
 * David Cruzan**
 * Brittany Ball**

__Establishing the Occasion__
This letter was wrote because the author felt like Sammy Sosa was being fake, that he did something that he believed would make him better but hurt people that aren't white because he viewed being black as wrong. He wrote this because the last time he saw Sammy Sosa he was brown and from the Dominican Republic and the next time he saw a picture of him he was white and says he is from America.

__**Ethos**__

The writer presents himself like he is offended with what Sammy Sosa did. Also, the writer seems angry with the situation. The words that the writer uses tells us that he is angry. One example of that is when he says "skin softening" my fanny, instead of using words such as I don't believe that was really skin softening.

__**Pathos**__

The writer wants the readers to feel his anger and question why Sammy would change his appearance like that. He wants us to realize that you have to be comfortable in your own skin. The writer is really questioning Sammy if changing his skin color has changed his confidence and it makes the reader wonder why he wouldn't be comfortable being black because he was still the same person. "Are you happy with yourself now? Are you more confident and self-assured? When you look in the mirror, do you like yourself better, now that you are white?"

__**Logos**__

The message in this letter is saying that you have to be happy with who you are and not change yourself to appear better because appearance has nothing to do with who you are as a person. The title of this letter is a good example of this. "Are you happy now, being white?" That really questions the appearance change and his happiness.

__**Effectiveness**__

We thought that this letter was very effective because we could feel his emotion and it made us feel the same way.

__**Claim**__ The claim is when he asks Sammy directly if being white has made him happy and if he felt like that is what his life lacked, if being white perfected his life. It is stated directly in the letter and the author worked the claim into the middle of the letter, he stated the fact that Sammy changed his skin color before directly asking him the question. __**Evidence**__ The author states that he doesn't relate to Sammy with his choice of being white and points out that he is from the era when James Brown sang "Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud!" __**Differing Views**__ The author states that Sammy Sosa claims the skin softening cream changed his skin color and that he had not done it on purpose but he says that he isn't buying what Sammy says.