Well, Jamie Vardy’s biography, Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, has been quite underwhelming in terms of
artfulness and rhetorical development. I’ve found that I’ve read this book more
“for pleasure” than any of my other IRBs. This may have to do with the fact
that I am more interested in the subject, or maybe because it’s because there
is a lack of rhetorical substance. Regardless, the story so far has been quite interesting. Up to the
point I’ve read, Jamie Vardy has described his life before winning the Premier
League. Vardy grew up poor and underprivileged, spending much of his
adolescence working in a carbon-fiber factory on low pay. However, he signed
with an amateur soccer team for an extremely low wage and progressed his soccer
career from there. He soon signed for Leicester City FC and after his first
season, earned himself a steady role in the starting XI. Throughout the whole piece,
Jamie Vardy uses personal anecdotes to narrate his life story.
Vardy uses personal anecdotes as the primary vehicle in
escalating his piece. In fact, it would be totally impossible for him to make
his points and tell his story without sharing personal anecdotes – hence the
term “biography.” For example, Vardy narrates his transition from childhood to
adolescence, from the factory to the football pitch. Without fully described
personal anecdotes, the reader would have to infer quite a bit about Jamie
Vardy’s development.
However, once again, Vardy does not use much rhetorical
strategy in his piece. This may be due to the fact that the book was written in
little time, as Vardy announced he would write a biography just a few months
before he actually had it published. But while it has been a bit difficult to
write a rhetorical analysis on his book, that does not mean that I have not
thoroughly enjoyed reading about Vardy’s story told in his own words.
No comments:
Post a Comment