Dear Dad Rhetorical Analysis

The world suppresses many issues that people are taught to be ashamed of. Most people have been peer pressured into things that they have felt too ashamed of to speak out. People often have keep secrets from the past because the world has told them it was their fault, whether they were peer pressured or not. There are victims that sit up late at night, all alone in pure darkness, in pure terror because of what someone lead them to do in their past. The commercial Dear Dad raises awareness about the struggles that many adolescents go through by using different camera angles, hues, scenery techniques, and literary devices such pathos, ethos, and logos. Therefore through this video she asks her father to shelter her from the unknown, and to make sure that being a girl will not be her greatest danger in life. …show more content…
She goes to warn her father about boys, about how when she turns just fourteen that the kids in her class will have called her many gruesome names (including that of a whore and a cunt). Explaining to her father, that none of these are in fact true, but instead the boys say it out of laughter. At age sixteen, a few of the guys would have slid their hands down her pants. Half-drunk, she tells them no, but oddly enough they do not find it amusing. As the guys have no advantage from her now, they leave her at the party all alone wasted. At age twenty-one, she was raped on her way home in a taxi. She goes to tell her father about how it was the boy’s son, in which her father swam with every Wednesday. Maybe that boy would not have raped her if only he would not have grown up on gruesome jokes. If only her father would have stopped his friend in the locker rooms when he would joke around, but how was her father suppose to know that his son would grow up to rape his daughter? “He was just a