The title of this section has, well, I'll just say it: a special place in my heart. So much of our required reading for high school is about monsters, literal and figurative. Beowulf fights an actual monster which happens to symbolize the very literal threat of invaders during and prior to Anglo-Saxon times. Macbeth is just a monster of a man. Or is his wife the one I should be calling the monster? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The Canterbury Tales. We are always reading about monsters because as much as there is that is good and positive in the world, there is and always will be something threatening out there to deal with. Every day we try to tame our own personal monsters. CNN and other news sources bring us tales of monsters abroad and the ways in which they torment the entire globe. Luckily, we have language. Language, it seems to me, is a powerful weapon in the fight against monsters. Rhetorical tools are equal to the arsenal of weapons at your disposal to identify the monsters, to create awareness, to propose solutions, to decrease the power they have over us. I think they feed off silence.
Someone let me know if you can access that link up there.
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