Rhetorical Analysis
In AP Language and Composition I had to write a variety of different essays. One of the assignments was to write a narrative. This is the first essay I chose to wrote and it was my best one. I later used the narrative as my best piece of writing for my senior project. I chose to use this narrative because I struggle with writing “normal essays”. For example, research papers and anything informative is difficult for me to write. It is easier to write fiction because my mind can just make things up. Everything flows the way I want it to. The formatting is how I want it to be and I don’t have to follow a strict layout. The narrative I wrote is meant to be questioning what insanity is. There is a strict definition of what …show more content…
There were many different ideas as to what insanity could be. At some point all the ideas converged into the main thought that insanity was when someone couldn’t make what is considered a “sane decision”. Sanity and insanity circled around each other never giving a real definition, or at least one that satisfied me. The ending of my narrative came from this research. The idea that insanity cannot really be defined.
Silence of The Lambs was a large influence on my writing. The film dictated how I would create the image of insanity. I wanted to keep the same ominous feeling that Hannibal Lecter gave off. However, due to the movies graphic nature I ended up having a more dark twist on my narrative. Having taken my audience into consideration I had to tone down what I originally wrote. It was far too dark for the audience I had in …show more content…
This was a group of 16-18 year olds who weren’t used to the dark nature of someone like Hannibal Lector. Seeing as this was also school project I had to be careful about my wording and how far I could go into my ideas of insanity. There was a large editing process that involved cutting out main ideas and changing the setting. In the end, keeping it mild was a good idea because later on the essay was read by a panel of judges. The judges consisted of the current High School Principal, a community member, and the school guidance counselor. Having used my original work the panel most likely would have had me visiting the school counselor weekly. I learned from this experience that the audience is something that needs to be taken into account before
In AP Language and Composition I had to write a variety of different essays. One of the assignments was to write a narrative. This is the first essay I chose to wrote and it was my best one. I later used the narrative as my best piece of writing for my senior project. I chose to use this narrative because I struggle with writing “normal essays”. For example, research papers and anything informative is difficult for me to write. It is easier to write fiction because my mind can just make things up. Everything flows the way I want it to. The formatting is how I want it to be and I don’t have to follow a strict layout. The narrative I wrote is meant to be questioning what insanity is. There is a strict definition of what …show more content…
There were many different ideas as to what insanity could be. At some point all the ideas converged into the main thought that insanity was when someone couldn’t make what is considered a “sane decision”. Sanity and insanity circled around each other never giving a real definition, or at least one that satisfied me. The ending of my narrative came from this research. The idea that insanity cannot really be defined.
Silence of The Lambs was a large influence on my writing. The film dictated how I would create the image of insanity. I wanted to keep the same ominous feeling that Hannibal Lecter gave off. However, due to the movies graphic nature I ended up having a more dark twist on my narrative. Having taken my audience into consideration I had to tone down what I originally wrote. It was far too dark for the audience I had in …show more content…
This was a group of 16-18 year olds who weren’t used to the dark nature of someone like Hannibal Lector. Seeing as this was also school project I had to be careful about my wording and how far I could go into my ideas of insanity. There was a large editing process that involved cutting out main ideas and changing the setting. In the end, keeping it mild was a good idea because later on the essay was read by a panel of judges. The judges consisted of the current High School Principal, a community member, and the school guidance counselor. Having used my original work the panel most likely would have had me visiting the school counselor weekly. I learned from this experience that the audience is something that needs to be taken into account before