Thlog W.2

This week in class we only had one lecture, which was quite unfortunate. Although we only one lecture it was a very productive one. The best thing that happened is that we got feedback on what we wrote. I now know that I must work on identifying correct genres and more specifically that 1 book can’t be its own genre since of course there would be nothing to compare it to. I also need to work on giving concrete evidence to support my claims, while also attracting the reader even more, which of course is always the end goal.

During this week’s reading, when reading the introduction to Carroll’s essay, I began to think about the Lego Movie; this is because of what she said, “If we refuse to stop and think about how and why it persuades us we can become mindless consumer who buy into arguments that make us value ourselves and what makes us happy.” In the beginning of the Lego Movie, the citizens of the city are portrayed as such people who base their lives on all the advertisement they see without ever thinking twice about them. Before reading this essay I had been introduced to the concept of rhetoric in and English class before, but I never quite actually learned, or remembered, what it was. Now I understand that rhetoric is everywhere and influences practically every action in our life. Rhetoric is pretty much based on how we choose to send a message to someone and how we wanted them to react to it, rhetoric itself is the art of persuasion.

I have a few ideas about what I want to write for by WP1, but I have to decide which would be the best and I would be most interest in. Hopefully by the end of class on Monday I will know which one I want to write about.