Rhetorical Analysis Of A Movie Theatre

Positive A: Positive Description of a Movie Theatre

While walking in the doors of the movie theatre on Schillinger road, the most delicious smell of popcorn came across my nose. As I am walking in the theatre, I see that everybody is at the counter waiting to order popcorn, candy, or either a soda pop. Most of the people that are standing in the line is either just standing or communicating with each other. While walking to the concession to order a side of popcorn and a soda pop, the employees are being generous by asking the customers are they alright and if they need anything. There are families and friends standing around to watch a movie or just to socialize with each other. There are children running around, and everybody is just having

the time of their lives because you can see the enjoyment in each person facial reaction. The lines are a super long to the concession, but everybody that is in the lobby are still socializing with one another. I overheard funny conversations with different families while standing in line, and also met the Johnson family and a close friend named Ashley. As the line starts to get shorter, I finally get a chance to order refreshments for my friend and me. The employees gave us our refreshments and showed us to our seats. As time went by people in the theatre room starts to fall asleep. Most of the people that were watching the movie, slept through the movie. When the movie went off the employees helped us with our trash, held the doors for us and showed us our way out. They dismissed us in the best way they could and told us to come back again.
Negative A: Negative Description of a Movie Theatre
While walking in the doors of the movie theatre on Schillinger road, the most horrible smell of popcorn came across my nose. As I am starting to walk closer to the concession the floors are really sticky from when a young boy wasted a soda pop all over the floor. Where I am standing I can see one of the employees taking a bag of burnt popcorn out of the popcorn machine. There is this one family that has a really bad stench to them while standing in the line of concession ready to order refreshments. As we are standing in the line one of the employees and customers starts to argue because the customer did not want to pay for their refreshments. The employee calls the police to remove the lady and her friend for being very disruptive at the movie theatre. There are children running around obnoxiously, and the dreadful sound of twin babies crying their eyes out. The lines to the concession are extremely long, and people begin to leave. I overheard one family arguing viciously because the children disagreed on a movie their parents selected. When the employees showed us to our seat, there were some people being very vulgar and ominous because they were with their family and friends. As time went by people in the theatre room starts to fall asleep and snoring terrifically uproarious. When the movie ended, the numerous people who were asleep, awakened and exited the theatre.
Part B: Rhetorical Analysis
For my Rhetorical Analysis assignment, my group was choosing to write about a place with people that are working.

I chose to write about my opposing observations about my experience at Wynnsong 16 in Mobile, Alabama. While being at the movie theatre I observe both positive and negatives experiences. By observing the people in the movie theatre I was able to gather a lot of details that helped me discover different activities with the people that are working. By using the skills of diction, imagery, and content, I was able to form positives and negatives perspectives of people.

In my description, the use of diction helped me decide whether I was going to choose negatives or positives details. For example, the words “interaction and generous” were positive ways that portrayed the people. The reason that I chose these two words is because it shows the different people that were getting alone with one another. Also, another reason I choose these two words is because the families and employees facial expressions displayed they were happy to be there. One negative diction I used to show the expressions of the employee and customers was them “arguing” with one another. The employee and customers was arguing because the customer did not want to pay for their refreshments. The reason I chose the word arguing was to show how the employee and customers was interacting with each

other.
Another strategy that I used in my paper was Imagery, I described the positives and negatives of the smell of the different popcorn that was popped while standing in the lobby of the movie theatre.

For example, the positive description of popcorn I use was the word “delicious”. This word was used to describe the smell of the popcorn so people could know what the inside of the lobby smelled like soon as I came through the doors of the movie theatre. One negative imagery I used in my negative paragraph was the popcorn “smells really bad”. The popcorn smelled bad because the employee let the popcorn stay in the popcorn entirely too long so it overcooked. This negative phrase expressed how bad the popcorn starts to smell as walking closer to the line of the concession. Both positive and negative description describes the Imagery I observed at the Wynnsong 16

theatre.
The last strategy I use to describe my description was Content. For example, the positive description I used for content was the “different conversations” that the families were having in the lobby. The negative description I used for content was “the families was arguing with one another about a movie they all did not agree on”. The reason I chose to say “different conversation” in the positive paragraph because I wanted the reader to believe that everything was going good at the movie theatre. Another reason I chose to say the families was “arguing” in the negative paragraph was to express the hostile negativity in the lobby.
Overall while being at the Wynnsong 16 movie theatre I was able to experience the different stages of diction, imagery, and content. Using their different contents, I was able to recognize the different strategies that were needed to represent each description. My experience while being at the movie theatre helped me conclude the overall and negatives description.