Rhetorical Analysis: Is Folisi Successful with his Strategies?

Many great writers write beautiful journals, essays, or any sorts of writings and publish them to the public, but do the larger purpose of the writing develops as the writing develop? Writing is a tool that many Americans in the United States have as a skill because writing is a source of education and success, but many still struggle with the ability to write and support their argument or larger purpose. Despite that many struggle, there are many authors that have master it such as Salvatore Folisi, the author of “Violence as an Entertainment.” Folisi effectively integrated crime shows and psychology in his article to support his two claims; however, his structure for his ideas needs improvement. Despite the problem, he did convince me to agree with his argument.

Folisi uses common television shows efficiently in supporting his first claim, “[United States’] society are fascinated by violence” (VE,1). Folisi slowly starts to develop his claim by stating popular television series such as “CSI Miami, Women behind Bars, COPS, and Lock Ups” (VE,2). By using common television shows, Folisi is able to support his claim because each of the shows represent violence as an entertainment. In addition, these shows justify Folisi’s claim because they represent society’s appetite for violence. Folisi continues to strengthen his claim by including his own experience from watching crime shows: “when I first saw the television show COPS, I was working at a group home for troubled teens” (VE). Folisi personal experience with crime shows strengthen his claim because it serves as an example of an age group in society that likes violence on television. In addition, the strategy of implementing his own experience with the media allows Folisi to state ...

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...lisi was due to the effectiveness of his strategies. I understood exactly what he wanted his audience to learn, even with the transitions problems, because he clearly implemented his strategies perfectly and slowly built upon them one by one. I agree with Folisi’s two claims, violence as entertainment is a diversion and society is fascinated by violence, because even in children’s disney movies, violence are implemented into them. Not just that alone, children’s toys and fun activities all reference back to violence which is very terrifying because children should be educated to create peace. Lastly, Folisi was very successful in writing his article because he was very clear with all his ideas and his arguments.

Works Cited

Folisi, Salvatore. "Violence as Entertainment."

Stateofnature.org Violence as Entertainment Comments. Stateofnature, n.d. Web. 05 Mar. 2014.