Rhetorical Analysis Of A Commercial: Most Shocking Second A Day

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War happens more times than anyone wants it to happen. With war, people are involved, and children are part of that group of people. To get help for these people and children, organizations go to commercials. All of these commercials uses rhetorical appeals such as the use of logic, as in facts, this is call logos; while others use trust, like credentials is ethos; and lastly pathos, where commercials tend to target the audience’s emotions. Pathos commercials can either make the watcher angry or happy at a topic, or plain upset. Bringing the watcher closer to the point of doing what the author of the commercial wants. “Most Shocking Second a Day” does this. This commercial effectively uses pathos in the scenes and characters and logos at the …show more content…

The purpose of this commercial is to inform the audience about what is going on in Syria. To let them know that the little girl could be any child in Syria and their childhoods are being destroyed and they need help by anyone who can, even if it’s a small amount. The author to the commercial is Save the Children. The person who made the story was Richard Beer and the director was Martin Stirling. Save the Children were targeting the audience, parents and adults. They are the audience because parents or any adult wouldn’t want to have any child to suffer. Parents would think of their child and how they wouldn’t want their kids to lose their innocence like that or even experience that in their kids’ lifetime. Most adults wouldn’t want to see a child experience what this little girl goes through. Everyone thinks of children playing with their imagination running around with a stick saying it’s a sword. Just having fun with friends or their minds. Not even knowing what death is. With this kid: her dad died, people are shot in front of her, she is eating rotten food, her hair is falling out, and just in a year her life becomes something in nightmares. Any adult would want to “save Syria’s children”. Adults meaning grandparents, young adults, working adults, …show more content…

Pathos was the main focus of “Most Shocking Second a Day”, it’s what Save the Children started with. The authors let the audience connect with the happy little girl by showing moments in her life a regular girl has. This makes the audience comfortable. Then they sneak in little things that make the audience feel a little worried. Things such as the moment when the mom is a little worried about the breaking news playing on the television, while the little girl is fully entertained by a Rubix cube. The moments when the girl has to wear a mask, coughs and starts to eat rotten food is when the author draws in the audience. Getting the audience to start to feel upset or angry. Soon after the author starts kicking in moments that plays on the heart, making the audience feeling more than angry or upset. These are the moments when her father dies or the ending when she doesn’t blow out her candles on her next birthday. This commercial builds up pathos and not just drops it on the audience, making the emotional distress more

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