Rhetorical Analysis Of If We Share A Brotherhood Of Man King

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Horror films act as an emotional release that feeds the dark, aggressive elements infested whinin Mankind. In his essay, King creates a hypothetical situation when stating, “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this rollercoaster.” In his hypothetical situation, King not only compares Roller coasters to horror films, but explain the true reason as to why we choose to perform these bone-shaking actions. To prove that we have courage. To show that “we are not afraid.” But throughout the essay, King inferred that after

we ride these spine-tingling rides or watch those scary horror films, it evokes the inhumane emotions buried deep within us. King makes the claim that the older we get, the less these uncivilized emotions run through our body and into our brain. King first appeals to all ages when he describes “the way we may scream when the roller coaster twist through a complete 360 are plows through a lake at the bottom of a drop. And horror movies, like rollercoasters, has always been the special province of the young; by the time One turns 40 or 50, one's appetite for double twists or 360 Degrees loops becomes depleted.” Starting at a young age, these aggressive emotions demand to be heard. But, King claims that the older we get, better we are in gaining a sense of controlling our emotions. King creates imagery when talking about the”plows” and “drops” of roller coaster and utilizes logos to describe the 360 degree turns in the rollercoaster to the 360 degree turns in our emotions.

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Fear is an outlet for the harsh emotions and actions we perform. King theorized why horror films accurately portray our inner thoughts when “we go to reestablish our feeling of essential normality, the horror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary period Freda Jackson as the horrible melting woman... conforms for us that no matter how far we may be removed from the beauty of a Robert Redford or Diana Ross, we are still at light-years from True ugliness. And we go have fun. But this is where the ground starts to slip away?” King gives extreme examples of classic horror films to reestablish our feelings of normalcy. King uses a wide range of relatable actors and actresses like “Diana Ross” and “Freda Jackson” to show that no matter how far away we are from true beauty like “Diana Ross” we are still “light-years from True ugliness.” To further enchant his rhetorical claim, King asks a rhetorical question to transition from relatable horror films, to the actions and behavior we have based off of horror films. King ties “Our emotions and our fears together forming their own body, and we recognize that it demands its own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone.” King personifies our fear into something that needs attention, care, and maintenance. Something that we cannot ignore until it rots and fester inside of us. King implies that it is human nature to feed these aggressive emotions through our fear and anger. When personifying the spirit of human nature and it characteristics, King creates a fearful tone within this sentence when giving emotions like fear and aggression human-like characteristics.

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Insanity will forever remain in the instincts of mankind because of the unreleased emotions of anger and fear.

King controls the black and white picture he created and now only looks at one side of the story as he examines the basic reason as to why we crave horror films. In his first observation, King believes that “If we share a Brotherhood of Man, then we also share an insanity with man.” Instead of presenting his ideas in a simple unrealistic tone, King depicts a picture of violence that is fostered deep within all of us. King suggests that violence, anger and aggression are all emotions we have experienced. The only things that set us apart from animals is the way we act upon these emotions. King conveys the impression that all men and women stand in the same insanity infested in our spirit and mind. King admits that even he experiences these powerful emotions when he states, “For myself, I'd like to see the most aggressive of them... As lifting a truck door and a civilized forebrain and throwing a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators... It was like Lennon and McCartney who said that all you need is love... As long as you keep the Gators fed.” King observes both the good and evil sides of the human Spirit when stating that ‘all You Need Is love... As long as you keep the Gators fed.’ It's almost as if King places the human spirit in the same category as a wild animal. Animals are contained in a zoo. Their violent behavior is suppressed because they have no reason to feed on prey. Like our spirit, we have no reason to act violently when good behavior is rewarded. King believes that as long as we keep good behavior, it suppresses our inhumane instinct to do wrong or show aggression. We classify anger and aggression as being far from the definition of normalcy. Society will find whatever it can to rule against these

emotions.