Rhetorical Analysis Of The Fall To A Sea Called Home

Rhetorical Analysis of a Non- written text

My piece of non-written text is by Brooke Thiele: The Fall to a Sea Called home. In this piece she employed multiple modes of expression and feeling to question herself and her place in the world around her. The fall to a sea called home explores her life, her identity – she was taken in and adopted from Korea by a white family from Green Bay Wisconsin, but still used parts of her Korean culture to give account of her life. Through pansori a traditional Korean musical story telling form. Thiele’s version of hanbok, a traditional hand painted Korean dress, is updated with materials that reference the acid washed denim of her childhood. A second more symbolic piece is revealed under black strobe light pictures of leaves (Thiele, Haggerty museum).

I feel that the purpose of the dress being there was to give of a traditional look and feel of the room and poem. The dress made me feel a little scared and mesmerized it gave the art a beautiful piece that people could look at and experience some part of her childhood since the traditional dress was edited with some denim of her past . When the black light came on it showed the beautiful blue lights that were on the wall and the different hidden patterns on the dress. What I did not expect was for the dress to start spinning, it went faster and faster going back and forth as she spoke.

There are three parts of this piece that the poem was in. first the author told her background and her story through an autobiography, the succeeding part was the poem and she closed with the dress and