I have been contemplating rhetorical analysis for a little bit now, wondering about what it is EXACTLY. Thanks to everyone and their blog posts out there, since they have helped me to understand this so much more in each post I read.
After thinking about books and movies to write about, I finally came to the conclusion. The movie called "A Clockwork Orange". This movie takes place around a boy and his gang who often display what's considered beyond indecent behavior. They terrorize London and a number of innocent people they come across. The boy turns on his own gang and lands himself in jail only to be put through government experiments in the hope of getting out of jail early. These "government experiments" are sessions that train the boys mind to be physically and mentally ill at the sight or sound of any horrible acts that are committed (many being the horrible things he did to people himself). He is released again into the world only to come across all the people that he hurt. These people take every opportunity given, to retaliate and all he can do is freeze up and choke out of fear. He is driven crazy nearly to the end by the people he hurt seeking their redress. He ends up in a hospital bed fearing for his life asking for protection from all the people he hurt; which is quite ironic. This movie is one that in analyzing it, one thing definitely comes to mind; be careful how you treat people because you never know when or how it will come back to you. When thinking about the movie in it's entirety, I think of how Stanley Kubrick managed to make people dislike the boy so much from the very beginning of the movie and by the end of it you actually start to feel bad for the kid and vice versa. At the start of the movie you feel horrible for the people this boy encounters and then wonder by the end how they could be so cruel. Needless to say, this movie takes us for a ride on the crazy train!
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