Rhetorical Analysis Of Sustai Stand For The Silent

According to nobullying.com, nearly 160,000 thousand students stay at home every day because they are afraid that they might be bullied. With the growing technological advances, bullying can take place anywhere ranging from school, the bus, or even through the screen of cellphones. Bully, an awe-inspiring film seeks to create awareness to the most problematic conflict that adolescents face in this country. The documentary explicitly captures five families with children who struggle with bullies. Through the use of pathos, tone, ethos, comical relief, figurative language, and rhetorical implications, the audience is left with a very gruesome impression of injustice, and a lamentable experience of bullying.

At first, the documentary is categorized as “R” due to vulgar vernacular said by the bullies. However, “Katy Butler, a 17-year-old high school student from Michigan, delivered a petition (with more than 200,000 signatures) to the Motion Picture Association of America's office in Sherman Oaks, California” (EW.com). In time, she persuaded the doubtful MPAA to categorize the rating of the film to “PG-13,” because the ratings hindered a compelling part of its key audience; all students enrolled in middle schools and high schools. Bully’s primary goal is to create awareness for school bullying and to

Thanks to the new organization founded by Ty Smalley’s Dad, kids will finally be bullied less. He travels around the whole country spreading the word of how bullying can hurt someone’s lives permanently. Unfortunately, he lost his son due to bullying. Smalley does not want anyone else to experience the tragedy he went through. Smalley says he won’t rest until there is a change in this country, and feels he is failing his son if he does not take a stand. Ultimately, the filmmaker made this film to prevent and to start an anti-bullying association and the let the world know the harsh reality of