Infidel Rhetorical Analysis

Infidel Infidel, a person who does not believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one’s own. The autobiography Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is a book which tells her story of what is was like for her to grow up as a muslim women. She states her purpose with pathos, The autobiography has so much emotions going on in it. She shows what a harsh life she had and it really shows how many muslim women are treated. She uses ethos with her credibility with her personal facts and what she has been through herself. She has a use of kairos as the autobiography goes through her whole entire life up until now. With her fearful mood this autobiography shows, helps to state and educate her purpose. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s purpose is to bring awareness …show more content…
Ali describes almost all the age groups of her life. She starts out with her as a child, she still had innocence and childish like ways. Up until her mother got abusive and the genital mutilation. She talks about all the different schools she went to from the different times of her life. The one she was at as a kid where she was bullied, the one she went as a teenager where she had emotionally and physically abusive teachers, then how she went to leiden University in the Netherlands, after obtaining a visa (Preface to “What Role Does Religion Play in Feminism”. The autobiography shows close to almost all of the events in her life. This helps with the purpose because in almost all times of her life she was abused and mistreated, and almost most of it had to do with the Muslim faith in her. She was taught at a young age that women were to be ruled by men. It showed the crucial moments of her life she had the courage to challenge the ideas and stay strong. Ali shows the change in her personality at the different times of her life. As a child she was very confused about what her parents wanted her to believe. In her pre teen years she was very strong to her muslim faith. Towards the end of her teen years she shows how she read many westernized books and saw the difference in treatments and equality. She was also a rebellious teenager as she secretly married her cousin, spending only a night with …show more content…
Ali shows this with her use of pathos, kairos, ethos, and the mood of her autobiography. The experiences she went through in her life evokes so much emotion and fear readers will have whilst reading. She is a very credible source because of all of the experiences she had herself, as well as what she had seen to others. The kairos shows everything in many of the stages of her life of how she was treated and changed as a person. These all help the purpose of this autobiography. Infidel is a remarkable autobiography which shows the bravery and strength Ali