1.Note an example of ethos, pathos, and logos in your essay: Cite and explain (1-2 sentences each)
Ethos: I tried to persuade an audience by stated as a immigrant has lived in U.S for six years at the very beginning of my essay. “I was speaking Chinese. My mother tongue is Chinese and I communicate with my parents and friends in both Cantonese or Mandarin.” It resonates with immigrant audience at first.
Pathos: In the middle part of the essay, I used a lot of rhetorical method to make the psychological description and the environmental description. Make the audience feel like they’re in the scene. “At that moment, the silence of the class was broken by sobs. … but the teacher’s words didn’t calm me down. On the contrary, it made me feel more ashamed and left me with a greater sense of lag.”
Logos: The whole essay is about how I changed my mind set and use strategies on how to learn a new language. So I wrote down the facts that learning a new language is not hard as well as you determine to it. So I wrote the ways how I learn to the audience. “Watching TV series is definitely the most useful way to learn a new language, at least for me.” and gave more specific example later, about how this method helped me.
2. Write a short summary and analysis o Write a short summary and analysis of a song, photo, short poem, movie scene, music video scene, or TV show scene you know well.
“Blindspotting” is a movie about both critical race theory and intersectionality, follows Collin, who is currently on parole, as he ends up serving time. The movie portrays a reality in which the main character changes a small part of reality, but remains stubbornly stuck in it. The whole story echoes from beginning to end. At the beginning of the film, Collin sees a fleeing black man being shot in the back by a white policeman who is pursuing him. (It was later reported that the police had fired without a proper reason.) Although Collin acts calm in front of his friends, there is already a lingering pain in his head. The director’s shaky shots of Collin suffering from visual blindness caused by nightmarish and morbid visions of dead people were even more effective when he used gradual sound effects to reflect Collin’s pain. Technical skills raise the terrible fact that black Americans are often present with a permanent post- traumatic disorder. For the pathos part, Collin ends up met with the cop who shot the black man, pointing his gun at him. Culminating in a fierce, brilliant monologue. But Collin didn’t shoot because he can’t let himself do that. Collin’s pain does not diminish even later in the film. But what Collin has been trying to do is to keep his anger under control and not really be the “nigga” who does the worst things. Presumably intended as a critique of white prejudice against blacks, director script is filled with biting dialogue and nuanced reflections on Collin’s efforts to avoid becoming a stereotypical angry young black man.
3.What did you notice about doing this summary and analysis activity? What questions, doubts, connections, opposing views, uncertainties, or observations do you have? 4-5 sentences.
I noticed analysis is to make an article, a movie or a poem more interesting, so that the author’s metaphors and symbols are presented to the audience in a known form. The author may only use one sentence, but the analysis is to express all the meaning, such as what information the author wants the audience to know and what kind of emotion the author wants to bring to the audience. Then use facts to support the logical conclusion of the story. But I’m not sure whether a good analysis should include a lot of quote in the article, movie or poem or just analyze them and only state what author trying to tell the audience.
You did a great job describing the movie through your detailed analysis. After reading your summary/analysis, “Blindspotting” is definitely on my list of movies to watch.
I like how you used “rhetoric method” in your paragraph, it was mentioned in the reading, and it’s helpful to see someone use it in their writing. It made me understand it better. I also found a connection between your example of ethos to mine. I wrote about how speaking a different language gave me the credibility to speak about ESL struggles because my audience is bilingual students.