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Rhetorical Analysis/Summary Reflection

 


    Completing my rhetorical analysis piece ended up being a lot easier than writing my summary in the first place. At first, I had a lot of details towards the beginning of the story but not many towards the end so I had to change that quite a bit. When writing the summary, I didn't know how long I was going to explore each scene or how many details I was going to include, so it ended up being very skewed by the time I was done. I had to revise it multiple times before it ended up fitting requirements and telling the whole story equally. 

    After I finished my summary, doing the rhetorical analysis was easy. I already had established a theme for the film through my objective summary and just expanded certain scenes more in-depth in order to analyze rhetorical appeals. I analyzed lots of pathos and some logos as well because of how prevalent they are in the film and how firmly they established the theme. Overall my piece flows very well now and I am happy that I have a solid draft down now because it takes a lot of stress off of me before midterms. Attached is a link to my rhetorical analysis draft.

     I think that the way this project was introduced was smart. It is important to get a full, even understanding of the film before taking an opinion on it and this is what the assignment promoted. The film was really good and I'm glad that I got the chance to watch it objectively and also eventually take an opinion on it.


    

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