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).

The dress that is apart of the story looks very old and traditional.

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

lights.

For her background the audience she is trying to reach is anyone willing to listen to her story. She is trying to connect and put her story out there for people who maybe has the same background or something close to it. This is important because she uses appeals such as Ethos and pathos. They way she uses Ethos is that she is telling not only a story, but her story that is why it makes her credible and responsible of telling it. Next, she uses pathos. She uses it by showing and trying to appeal to the reader’s emotions through the mood/ tone of her voice and you can hear emotions. The audience is connected to the purpose because you need a purpose to give the audience and not just talk with no point to get across. The audience for the poem is everyone willing to listen but this time she changes her mood and direction of her voice she has more energy and is excited but calm at the same time because she is use to telling her life story her experiences. She is not just trying to connect with one type of group, she is reaching out to no one specific.

The purpose of the piece I think the artist is trying to push is that by putting out her story, it would inform people of who she is and that she is a person. She tries to connect with the readers through the poem to get them to truly listen.
The exigence of this non-written text is that she felt so strongly about her childhood and that she needed to tell her story, from when she had been adopted to the parts of where she was bullied and made fun of. She wanted to make it beautiful but informative