To deliver the narrator’s intended
criticism of brainy people, the narrator of the excerpt utilizes imagery, point
of view, and direct characterization. Through the use of various alienating
phrases such as “blindfold into some nasty pursuit” or “intellectual sort”,
utilizing disturbing pictures of strange people poking and stabbing spiders and
frogs, and also speaking directly to the audience is all done in order to
further antagonize the subject, which are intellectuals. The narrator himself
is in fact blind and is ignoring the benefits of what the intellectual has
accomplished for society, in order to further promote his own senseless brand
of thinking, which is that one is fortunate to have to do hard manual labor in
order to survive, rather than ponder because one is well off enough to. In the
passage, the narrator displays the attitude of being both ignorant and hateful
of intellectuals to make the idea of a life of hardship sound pleasing.
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