A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Movie 'Moana'

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What is the purpose of the work? To inform, persuade, entertain, describe, or analyze? -The purpose of this passage the author wrote was to inform us on how people want the characters in animated movies to have the right actors as the voice, not only white people.
What is the writer’s point of view? What does the writer want the reader to do? -The author wants us to see that all these years on movies with characters with unique cultures are being voiced by actors who are white and viewers want that to be changed.
Why does the writer feel the need to write? (the occasion) What has gotten under the writer’s skin? -The author got this out to us because “Moana” the movie where Disney finally payed attention to their cast and changed it from
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How can you tell? -The audience for this is to the people who like animated movies and really focus on the character’s voice and tone. I can tell by the information they give in on how the “Moana” movie changed their cast to prevent …show more content…
Many persuasive writers use a combination of pathos, logos, and ethos to sway their audience. (QUOTE SANDWICH) -The author uses logos to show data on how his statement is true, “Hollywood at large has increasingly faced accusations of "whitewashing," or when white actors are cast in historically nonwhite roles” this shows that Hollywood actors that are in movies are mostly white and they refer to that as “whitewashing”.
What language does the writer use? Concrete, figurative, connotative, etc? What about imagery? Are there any interesting sentence structures, details, or any other notable features that make the writer’s argument more effective? (QUOTE SANDWICH)
-In the writing he throws in some like racist things in the passage like right here, “With directors Musker and Clements, Disney's 2009 film "The Princess and the Frog" starred actors of color, including Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David and Michael-Leon Woodley.” here it seems like they’re blaming the american white people for taking all the spots for an animated movie.
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