I threw away the article Judy Bulme wrote on censorship. A personal perspective that she takes her readers on a trip caught her eyes and made them jump into her shoes for a test drive. life and show her the ins and outs of how she experienced and dealt with censorship, coming into contact, learning and rebelling against it. She does this in her article by using clever but effective ways of using rhetorical strategies to get the reader to think a certain way and feel a certain way. Jude Blume uses the rhetorical strategies ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively persuade the reader and inform them that censorship does not belong to a group of people but a personal choice. In her article, she first uses ethos to let the reader know that she is credible on this topic and knows what she is talking about when it comes to censorship. By letting the audience know that she knows she is credible, she uses her personal experience to shed light on the life of being in daily contact with censorship as an author and also for her childhood experiences. (I found John O Hara's name on my reading list. No specific John O Hara title, but any title. I didn't waste my time. I went to the public library in 'Elizabeth, New Jersey, that afternoon - one where I spent so many happy hours as a young child, I glued a card sleeve to the back cover of every book I owned and I looked for the rage to live. But I didn't find it. When I asked the librarian, I told him, this book was kept in a cupboard, and I couldn't. not release it without written permission from my parents.(317)), she also uses the other credibility of former teachers who were censored and banned. martial arts in their curriculum (Colorado do English...... middle of paper ...... a lot to say if not read now and explained from a young age would leave a younger generation growing up and being naive and falling for anything in the world Judy Blume uses these rhetorical strategies in a virtuous way to guide her audience through every thought process, every emotion in the article, every thought that makes you think and. think about what you just read and how it makes you feel and see society for what it really is. Blume's article is really well written, she knows what to say, it's not exaggerating. showing bitter and crude against the censors asks us to rethink the way something is unknown and controversial to us, that we avoided but rather to take it head on and accept it, to immerse ourselves in it, to explain it to people. our younger generation and to educate them they are in the unknown and therefore can bark in their own quest and expand their minds..