Rhetorical Situations- Narratives

2) Our team agrees that the last sentence of the story summarizes its main point. One difference in our blogs was that some of us said that the story was mostly from either third person or Lydia’s point of view. We all used similar descriptions from the story to describe Lydia and the settings that she was in. In the last question of our blogs, we agreed that the magazine was geared towards health professionals and that the beginning of the story was about examining Lydia’s health, taking on a serious tone that fit the magazine well.

3) Brideau thought about her intended audience and her purpose in ways that chapter 2 described. Since she was telling the story of someone else, she had to stay true to what Lydia told her while also appealing to an audience. Chapter 2 helps us think about rhetoric while writing by breaking down everything that we need to convey to our audience.

5) In daily life we read, see, listen or tell stories. For example, while going on facebook we see tons of links to stories or news to read about other people’s lives. We also tell our own narratives to friends about things that are going on in our own lives whether it be something that just happened the day before or an event from further in the past. Every song that we listen to during the day also tells its own story.

9) Our group found that watching the videos on “It Gets Better” was more effective then written narratives (in the form of a tweet) because you can visibly see the emotions that they are feeling while telling their stories. That being said, our emotions and thoughts are more impacted when we can see theirs on camera.

12) Lydia’s story and TV news are both very different ways of telling a narratives. With TV news multiple people talk about the same topic to get different perspectives. Also, the video allows viewers to see the emotions of the people telling their stories. In contrast a written narrative such as Lydia’s story gives the authors perspective and leaves it to the readers imagination to visualize how things happened. At times the news can be written in paper form losing that visual connection that TV gives the audience. Or if a book is made into a movie, a lot of times important details are overlooked.