almost the end of the semester

This is my second to last blog entry. I am definitely excited to be at the end of this semester. I learned a great deal from this class. I think that the rhetorical strategies were the biggest thing that we had covered. It is also strange that wherever I go, I can’t look or read anything without giving a good analization of it. It has somehow grown to be a bit natural for me to analyze everything and immediately thinking of the different rhetorical strategies used in it. For example, I watch a lot of movies at the theatre, and I can’t help but figure out which strategy is being used and for what purpose. There are so many scenes that I think, “Oh, with those 2 characters, the director and writer want the audience to feel pathos because of…..” I can’t say that I don’t like the natural tendency to discover each strategy, but it makes me wonder if it’s a good thing to do so all the time. I haven’t exactly noticed if I can turn it off, I haven’t really paid too much attention to that. Although, I think that sometimes I just want to be part of the audience and experience those feelings that the director or writer want the audience to think at a specific time. I don’t think this will go away because I am still in school and my work requires me to understand what people are saying and how they are saying it. So I guess we’ll see.