In Trask’s article, the author gives a different understanding about her homeland, Hawaii, to an …show more content…
The author authorizes her deliverance of speech to strengthen her argument about how corporate tourism rapes Hawaii. She appeals to her ethos through Hawaiian myth, language, culture, and history when she states an example of how “Hawaiian language has come a flowering of Hawaiian dance” (np) to show her full knowledge and deep understanding of Hawaii. She demonstrates her Hawaiian knowledge through Hawaiian language because she wants to convince to readers that she knows beyond. She educates the readers about Hawaii in order to express her views of the corrupting Hawaiian culture and how it is downplayed by corporal businesses in tourism. In addition, her uses of ethos is shown throughout the article because her words of choice unveil her highly intelligence by saying big vocabularies like “repudiation” (np), “disparaged” (np), and other big terms. She gives a clever perception about her argument to confirm her credentials in the subject. Perhaps, she knows more about Hawaii than a native Hawaiian; and this somewhat persuades readers to commiserate her different views of