TOW #24 IRB

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, tells the story of Richard P. Feynman, an eccentric physics nobel prize winner. Mr. Feynman is a hilarious atomic physicist who has traded work with some of the greats such as Einstien and Bhor along with some other wacky shenanigans. This book is full of different rhetorical devices that translate Feynman's brilliance  to the reader. Feynman's main use of rhetorical devices are the ones that transfer his ideas and images to his readers. To best analyze this text I am going to use SOAPSTone. The speaker of this text is Richard P. Feynman, a scientist and nobel prize winner and in the story he speaks as a narrator in the first person while he tells the story of his life. His position as a storyteller gives the readers a good sense of his thoughts as well as a good grasp of what's going on in the particular anecdote. This story is written as a retelling of the influential moments of his life and occurs over a large span of years. Feynman's audience is mostly people who enjoy the field of science or are familiar with him as an accomplished scientists. This makes him alter his diction to include jargon from the field of science. His purpose is to convey just how zany his life has been and how that has influenced his career and his accomplishments. He makes the subject of this story is himself because it is an autobiography. His tone is very light and joking to convey how funny his life has been but also fascinated to show hos interested in his field he is.