Rhetorical Situations-Narratives

Differences and Similarities of “Lydia’s Story” questions:

Throughout the questions referring to chapter two we had many more similarities than we did differences. For example, question 1, we all pretty much agreed that the main point of the story was that you should keep hope, a level headed mind, clear thoughts and things of that nature. Similarly with question 2 we all agreed it was told from Lydias’ perspective in the third person form. As well as in question 3 we had words and phrases that made the story standout but probably some of the more important ones were of the phrases that talked about the crackling TV and the crisp cool AC. However, question 4 is where we differed the most by far. One member believed that it was pretty formal while the others thought not. We also had similar ideas about the original audience but different enough to mention. We thought the audience could be either health care Politian’s, works, or individuals.

Connections between Chapter 2 and “Lydia’s Story”:

Chapter two was mainly about knowing who you’re talking to and knowing your position and really knowing who you are before you post or print what you’ve wrote. “Lydia’s Story” had its strengths and weaknesses given its unique constraints and opportunities. However we believe that the largest connection between “Lydia’s Story” and Chapter 2 was the fact that “Lydia’s Story” was an example of many of the items presented in Chapter 2.

Summary of “Think About” activity:

Personal List:

1. (Song) Smoke Filled Room- Mako (about a girl trying to make herself look older when she should really be embracing her youth and innocence)

2. (Story) My day to my girlfriend (mainly about what I’ve done for the day what I have planned for the rest of it)

It seems that today most of the things that we talk about with our friends and family is egotistical because it’s all about us and what we’ve done most of the time. Similarly with mainstream hip-hop/rap music. It’s all gotten to this point where it’s one big morph of these big names talking about their life with girls, drugs and money.

Summary of “Think Beyond Words” activity:

The most compelling videos we agreed on were those who had fitting music and those who tell their life story’s in a compelling way that is interesting. For example a woman is telling her life story but while she’s telling that they have picture from her lifetime on the screen.

Summary of “Compare Narratives” activity:

Narratives: Magazine articles and Music Videos

The largest difference between a Magazine Article and a Music Video is perhaps obviously is one is print and one is electronic. Each case is different because with an Article in most cases it needs to have visuals of some sort to maintain the reader’s interest. However with a video you don’t need a lot to keep someone’s attention, a video could be jaw dropping with no sound or anything else but the video at all. If a video was presented in a different medium a person’s amount of interest would change dramatically more so for the lesser, although if a magazine was made into a video it can instantly become more interesting considering in our day and age our attention span has dropped considerably.