Intention
The interview “Call me Arnold” by Arnold Schwarzenegger explores three main topics: Schwarzenegger’s personal story, achieving your dreams, and America as the best country in the world. These topics are connected throughout the interview. Often, Schwarzenegger achieves his intentions through the use of rhetorical devices such as imagery, hyperbole, parallelism and the use of rhetorical questi…
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Achieving your dream through hard work
Schwarzenegger’s overall intention in his interview is to convey his message that people can achieve their dreams through hard work.
Schwarzenegger wants his readers to use his personal story as inspiration and to believe that they can achieve similar success through hard work. To express the importance of constantly focusing on a dream, Schwarzenegger tells his readers:
When I was fifteen, I had a dream that I wanted to be the best body builder in the world (…) It was not only a dream I dreamed at ni…
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America as the best country in the world
Schwarzenegger's description of America aims to convince his readers that America is the best country in the world.
He uses logos to describe his experience in America and all the opportunities it offers: international fame (p. 19, ll. 88-90), the best financial advantages (p. 10, ll. 93-94), and a philosophy which encourages success and wealth (p. 20, ll. 90-92). Furthermore, he expresses his love for California, describing it in an extremely…
