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Critical Rhetorical Analysis

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August 11, 2020

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Critical Rhetorical Analysis

Introduction

Maté, Gabor’s “Embraced by the needle,” attempts to show that poisoning is the

consequence of training as well as attention in the previous stages of life. Mates is a doctor who

spends his lot of time to work with individuals with drug addiction as well as a psychological

disease. His HQsare in the city center of Vancouver, one of Canada's most significant drug

regions. In the opening of his essay, he describes his point solely and solidly, reliant on his

practices with clients as well as investigation examples, he described regarding how deprived

culture effects lead to substance addiction throughout the growth of life. It is not around drug

exterminating but harmful communications in childhood. Drugs do not cause drug abuse,

emotional pain and suffering do, speaks GABOR, who works with such kind of addicts.

Addictions continuously originate in sadness, even if unseen. They are expressive painkillers,

they dazed pain[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033 ].

Thesis statement: This article emphasizes that addiction is derived from a combination

of neglect and traumatic experience at a young age, through his use of the methods of prood

logos to and pathos.

Analysis

The author uses monkey and rat examples to explain how they affect an infant’s brain

growth. Mate uses logos through his factual and statistical evidence. He begins with “Only about

8 percent to 15 percent of people who try, say alcohol or marijuana, go on to addictive use.”

There are many usual benzo receptors in the part of the brain that manage anxiety. The monkey’s

brain is detached from mother in a few days because of a critical absence of significant
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neurochemical dopamine. Mate is once growth happensonce thepresence of ordinary cultured

endorphin is unconfined. But, if they don’t present, it could cause many issueswithin the 2nd half

of life. He supports his argument with physiological evidence; the body releases endorphins

during natural rewarding events, which in turn bind to the same receptor sites as opioid drugs

would, therefore imitating the effects of endorphins. Addicts are usually seen to be lacking social

connection, or have a co-morbid mental illness, so they try and get their feel good “fix” from

drugs instead. Mate uses emotional and scientific bases for his dissertation that is inhibitory,

however effective. This complex and hastiness configuration takes away from the complete

essay's subject, but the efficiency of Mate’s statement permits his points to be

carried[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033 ].

Mate uses pathos to emotionally influence readers to agree with him, made clear by his

use of language. Gabor gradually defines the pain of addicted people. Differentiating skid

disorder addicts is the dangerous point of stress and anxiety they had to bear in life. Maximum

women currently occupying Canada's addicted people suffered due to sexual assault in their

childhood, as did a maximum of males. Childhood reminiscences of continued desertion or

severe psychological or physical abuse are common. The author states, the pasts of my Portland

patients express pain upon pain. He uses the word “pain” to describe the suffering of addicted

people. He states, Carl, a 36-year-old native, exiled from a foster home after an additional, had

dishwashing fluid poured down his throat using vulgar language, as well as was knotted to a

chair in the room to handle his hyperactivity. Once angry at himself, as he was in recent times,

using cocaine, he scratches his foot through a knife like a punishment[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033

]. He metaphorically describes how the high addicts get from drug use mimics the feeling of

being loved. Mate also points out that “They blame themselves – and that is the greatest wound
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of all, being cut off from their natural self-compassion” (290). The patients he sees are unable to

connect their drug use to their poor upbringing, so they put the fault on themselves. This puts a

further damper on their psychological well-being and therefore may lead to more drug use as a

coping mechanism. To attract to the emotional sense of readers.

Mate’s use of pathos to appeal to the reader’s senses also coincides with his use of

anecdotes from three of his patients at the Portland. He also emphasizes his point with a rigid

tone, which seems when he supports his thoughts. Through asking rhetorical queries, he makes a

reader incapable of refuting his opinion. He uses the word “stress,” having a broad impact on

addicted children. Mate reveals how Carl was neglected as a child now reflects his self-harming

actions as an adult, specifically cocaine use. The most recurrent source of unseen stress is

parents' childhood pasts that burdened them by emotional baggage they had not ever turn out to

be conscious of. What they aren’t aware of in themselves, they pass on to their children.

Anxious, Stressed, or miserable parents have unnecessary trouble initiating adequate of those

expressively satisfying, endorphin-liberating communications with their kids. Far along in life,

those children might experience the success of heroin-like a "warm hug" my patients defined:

What they did not get sufficient of before, they can currently inject[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033 ].

Mates debates around people who developed by the viewpoint of growth or development, where

they collect attention and love, as well as why they are addictive[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033 ].

Conclusion

Mate's dissertation portrays the causes behind the addict’s adoptions to use drugs. Over

exploration that labels brain growth as well as the impacts of trauma on the brain, accompanied

by patient’s life illustrations, Mate was capable of founding a complete thesis of “addictions

continuously originate in unhappiness, even if hidden” (Mate, 305). The usage of patients'
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individual experiences supports holding his thesis through having relatable and emotional

influences, which brings around a depressing impact on children as well as their possible futures

if restricted parental development happens. The individual experiences are contrasted to

experimentation concerning infant rats as well as their parental, to found medicinal proof that

restricted affection might decrease brain growth and development also cause stress and

anxiety[ CITATION Sar11 \l 1033 ].

Summary

Even though Mate’s concept is rational, he rapidly generalized assured patients' facts that

appropriate to childhood disturbance. Through that assumption, this debilitated the sense behind

the paper, as there is nothing regarding adults rotating to drug abuse subsequently alike trauma

that a kid might feel and experience. Similarly, there is no reference for children who have

similar stories of substance-abuse grownups that efficiently overcome the requirements of

external stimuli. Mate overlooks the option of substance abusers that just use for the fun of it as

well as for experience. The potentials that Mate has left out have wounded his essay through not

having a complete opinion of addicts as well as why they use it. Mate joins emotion and science

in the article, which shows a compound relationship. Though, this demonstrative aspect partially

works.
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References

Sarah Norton, N. K. (2011). Canadian Content. Cengage Learning.