Be the superhero to yourself: Something Just Like This In 2013, Miles, a 5-year-old boy in San Francisco with leukemia, despite the serious disease and the odds of cure are extremely low, still has a superhero dream: become Batman to punish the evil and help the weak. His story spread on the Internet, the people of San Francisco like him to lend a hand, and finally, one day in November, everyone raised money for young Miles to shoot a movie, the day San Francisco became Gotham City, young Miles became Batman to arrest the robbers, the police chief praised him, and even Obama knew about it. And Coldplay and The Chainsmokers wrote a song for him. It is “Something just like this”. This collaborative song delves into themes of self-acceptance and …show more content…
The song heavily utilizes allusions to undefined the unachievable perfection of mythical heroes with the realities of human existence. References to figures like Hercules, Achilles, and superheroes in the lines "I've been reading books of old / The legends and the myths / Achilles and his gold / Hercules and his gifts / Spiderman's control / And Batman with his fists" (Coldplay, 0:14-0:26) highlight the extraordinary abilities and lives of these characters. By paralleling these figures with the speaker's own ordinariness, the song acknowledges the limitations of human organisms and fosters a feel of belonging and empathy inside the audience. Furthermore, the allusion to "magic" as a metaphor for unrealistic expectations in the lines "I'm not looking for somebody / With around superhuman gifts / Some superhero / approximately fairytale bliss" (Coldplay, 0:49-1:02) emphasizes the desire for genuine undefined and authentic love over fantastical ideals. This aligns with Brené Brown's emphasis on embracing vulnerability and imperfection to build meaningful relationships
In the movie trailer for Holes you can generally see the three rhetorical devices, which make the trailer effective. These are fairly noticeable in the movie trailer, some more so than others. While the message they are getting across is quite obvious, the speaker aspect of it is not quite as obvious. The speaker in the trailer uses an enthusiastic voice to show the audience, which is generally young kids or people who like mystery, that it is a movie with plenty of excitement. While they go through it the speaker gets more enthusiastic, and the music for the trailer also becomes more upbeat. The speaker also mentions that the movie is based off of an award-winning book, most likely because it might broaden the age group for the audience.
The song has heavily used imagery when stating “And the Legal pads were yellow, hour’s long, pay packet lean. And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been.” This is used to explain his stress of coming back to civilization after war and all the things that once traumatized you are now take place in a different way. The song also uses Social Criticism“And she was like so many more from that time on. Their lives were all so empty, till they found their chosen one.” This is used to say that a female’s life is incomplete until they settle down and marry. Cold chisel has added this in to reconnect with their message to show that women are incomplete without their male counterparts and it makes it hard for both people in the relationship after war because of a miscommunication between love and
How naive are product consumers today? People assume things are factual without questioning the credibility of a person or product. An article in “The Onion” mocks advertisers in a satirical tone to show the bizarre tactics companies use to market their products to customers. The author writes on the topic of “MagnaSoles” shoe inserts, a fictional brand used for his demonstration. He uses devices such as humor, false authority/science, and irony to display the outlandish strategies of advertisers.
In addressing the Wellesley High School class of 2012, David McCullough, Jr., uses rhetorical devices such as logos, pathos and literacy devices to argue the uneasy fact to the grads that every person is not special and thus should not try to accomplish everything in life.
At what age did you learn to read? Were you younger or were you older? In “Superman and Me”, Sherman Alexie describes the importance of learning how to read at a young age and how reading saved his life. Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me” uses rhetorical analysis effectively to show that by reading he became an example for Indians at the reservations by beating and conquering all of the stereotypes that were against Native Americans.
The play, Fences was written by an American author August Wilson in the 1983. This play takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950’s which happened before any major work regarding the civil rights movement was noticeable. The play is about a man named Troy Maxson, who is a fifty-three year old who works in the sanitation department. His son Cory wants to play football and does not let him pursue his dream because he doesn't want him to get hurt. August Wilson’s play, Fences, follows the formal conventions of its genre, which helps convey the story to the audience because he uses stage directions, theme, symbolism, and figurative language.
Chipotle uses pathos, ethos, and logos in their advertisement to attract electronic consumers to download their app “The Scarecrow.”
Before an author begins composing a body of work, there are three requirements necessary to establish beforehand. The composer must first “have a specific purpose and an audience”( Braziller, Kleinfeld, 7). A purpose allows there to be an overall reason to write. The purpose is necessary to persuade, inform, educate, or entertain the reader on a certain topic. The topic can be caused by "the time period, location, current event, or cultural significance (University, 1995-2018 )”. Identifying the audience is necessary since it instructs the composer how to communicate in a way the audience will appreciate and understand. Knowing how the audience will best understand the information gives the composer an advantage when trying to communicate the
American Pie is a song that is a very slow and deliberate song with a lot of thought put into it. This is a song that has over 850 lyrics that play for 8:30, the longest song ever to be listed as the Number one song on top hits charts. All these lyrics don’t just have the meaning of the individual words themselves, they paint a picture for the audience listening about what life was like and the events that transpired in the 1950-70’s, along with how Don McLean interpreted them. The lyrics of this song appeal to the youth of that timeframe in rhetorical ways of Pathos, Ethos, Doxa. Pathos is shown to try and emotionally connect with the audience; Ethos is used to show he knows what he is talking about by relating his real life stories and knowledge back into the essay, and lastly, Doxa is used very often in this in the aspect that Don was a huge Buddy Holly fan and he felt a deep connection to him.
In Invisible Man, there are many instances in which rhetorical questions are brought up and one of these cases was when the narrator hears about the situation up in Harlem and asks to himself “What was happening uptown? Why should I worry over bureaucrats, blind men? I am invisible” (Ellison 528). The narrator believes that his invisibility has detached him for situations that were occurring at that time, so his responsibilities would not include having to fix or find out what was happening in Harlem. The rhetorical questioning shows that the narrator is coming to the realization that his invisibility is what makes him, him. After countless situations of being overlooked and ignored in decisions or discussions, the invisible man is able to
Time after time it seems like people have tried to depict what our society true and often hidden image represents. One artist, Lauryn Hill, executed this topic exquisitely in her song “Mystery of Iniquity” produced in 2002. In this song she incorporates several verses from the bible n her lyrics to relate the underlying corruption of the law system on society and how it affects people. The first few lines of the song incorporate the same lyrics in the title where it states, “It's the mystery of Inequity, said it's the misery of inequity, said it's the history of inequity.” Here we see she uses these lines to introduce what she will essentially be discussing throughout the song as this expression is found in the book of 2 Thessalonians 2:7 in
These poetic devices not only help develop the imagery that Sheeran utilizes, but also gives deeper importance and meaning to the language. With the line, “Her face seems / Slowly sinking, wasting” and simile “Crumbling like pastries,” the listener visualizes a person whose deep, dark circles under her tired weary eyes grow darker each day as she weakens. A person whose whole life is deteriorating around her, and whom spends torturing nights in bed with unknown men just so she can afford to live. Not only does Sheeran reveal them to the hardships may women in the world have to go through but he also asks listeners to feel the emotions they feel and to empathize with them.
Arguments can appear between morals and ideas that are discussed. Writing can often create arguments on the ideas the literature discusses. Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game creates a controversial argument about the morals presented in the novel. John Kessel’s essay Creating the Innocent Killer states that the book promotes bad morals. Both sides of the argument about the morals presented in Ender’s Game are flawed as Kessel and Card miss information that weakens their arguments and neglects discussing concerns.
In Coldplay’s song, “Paradise”, the songwriters use exaggerative language, personification, and rhetorical techniques to tell the story of a little girl’s escape from the harshness and disappointment of reality. The listeners of this song are treated to a beautifully written story about a girl’s maturity through the struggles and disappointment that life has offered to her. Some of the most effective ways that the songwriters explain the plight of the girl are when they attach the listener emotionally with her plight through their use of exaggerated language and personification. Ultimately, the girl copes with her situation and shows signs of maturity; which, enforces the emotional connection that the audience feels with her.