This article, written by Ian Crouch, talks about Morgan Jones, a senior at Valley High School, who is the top ranked high school quarter back in America. It talks about how he was the most wanted coming college freshmen quarterback in the nation and how colleges with amazing football programs, such as Noterdame, Alabama, and Southern California, all wanted him on their teams. MoJo, how he became known as, always planned to go to College, and was extremely excited with so many options to choose from. One day, he scheduled a meeting with all the college he had been scouted by, all his family and all his friends. He surprised everyone by saying that he had decided not to go to college and try to change the NFL (National Football League) rules and play for NFL without attending college for at least three years.
This article has many rhetorical devices. The most evident one is Anacoluthon. In various occasions, Crouch, begins the sentence with a grammatical structure and finishes it with a different one. An example of that is, "Imagine that the top-rated high-school quarterback in the country—let’s call him Morgan Jones—calls a press conference during his senior year at Valley High School. " and "(...)he’s a handsome African-American kid—six-two, one-ninety—and appears to be a once-in-a-generation talent." . Crouch also uses Allusion to other NFL football players, such as Manning and Marino. The author's main point in writing this article is to explain how MoJo might change the rules of a huge institution such as the NFL, and I believe he brings the point across very well. Crouch makes this article a entertaining and easy to read article, engaging the reader into the subject.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/09/free-mojo-a-football-fable.html#entry-more
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