Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text 'The Stub-Book'

 

Toulmin's Model of Argument of the text 'The Stub-Book'

Claim:

Truth is always victorious.

Ground:

Buscabeatas, an old farmer of Rota, gets justice after the theft of his pumpkin. The thief tried to hide the

truth by claiming that he had bought these pumpkins from uncle Fulano. Uncle Fulano was scared in 

front of the policeman. When Buscabeatas was asked to prove if they were his pumpkins, he set the 

stubs to the pumpkin stem which fitted and he got his pumpkins back.

Warrant:

The truth about the ownership of the pumpkin was revealed and justice was granted to the old farmer.

Backing:

This story tries to show hardworking farmers of Rota Village. The farmers worked hard and earn

livelihood. But the thief stole their product. Truth is a beacon of light that defies the darkness. It is

inevitable. It cannot be ignored or avoided. When the farmer found out about the thief he got his

pumpkins back. So the writer shows truth is truth. There is always victory of truth.

Rebuttal

However, truth may or may not win as per the circumstances and people involved. Truth wins if the

right people in the right circumstances stand for it. Truth is easily suppressed by the powerful. And of

course, if the truth is hidden deeply enough, and by clever enough lies, many times it isn’t even known

later, ever.

Qualifier:

The old farmer knew about the crops very properly. He paid attention to growth of each pumpkins.

Hence, he knew about what they would look like while finding them in the market and where they

would fit stubbing them to the stem. This again defies the rebuttal and leads us to the universal fact of

truth always being victorious.