TOW #10- Visual- Don't Talk While He Drives

The Bangalore Traffic Police created an ad campaign to bring awareness the results of distracting driving. The image shows a woman grimacing away from her phone as blood spurts out of, it  next to a text stating "Don't Talk While He Drives". This is used in order to shock people from talking to friends and family while they drive, the main purpose of this advertisement. The ad uses grotesque imagery in order to convey this purpose. The use of blood spattering implies that something gruesome is happening to the person she is talking to and the quote ties the image all together, which further applies the message that distracted driving can kill you. The gross and uncomfortable use of blood helps add the shock value needed in order to grab their audiences attention. Boldly showing the real price of distracted driving. The police effectively use this imagery to shock viewers and show them the consequence of using ones phone while driving. Thus causes their audience, couples and people who talk on cell phones while driving, to rethink their dangerous habit. The Bangalore Traffic police make a strong and uncomfortable ad, causing one to think twice before talking on the phone while driving. 

TOW #9- Nonfiction Piece- Can Reading Make You Happier?

Can Reading Make You Happier? is an editorial by Ceirdwen Dovey, a South African and Australian social anthropologist and author. In her piece she talks about the healing effects of bibliotherapy, the use of books as therapy to cure mental or psychological disorders and the history of this form of therapy. Dovey's purpose for writing this essay is to show the healing effects of bibliotherapy and how literature can help you move forward from your troubles, she most effectively uses anecdotes to show this purpose. In her essay she describes her trouble time dealing with her future loss of the ones she loved, this causes Dovey to invest in bibliotherapy. Where her "prescription" from her therapist was to read "“The Guide,” by R. K. Narayan. Berthoud wrote that it was “a lovely story about a man who starts his working life as a tourist guide at a train station in Malgudi, India, but then goes through many other occupations before finding his unexpected destiny as a spiritual guide.” She had picked it because she hoped it might leave me feeling “strangely enlightened.” (3). By uses anecdotes of her experiences with bibliotherapy not only builds up her ethos but helps to prove her purpose. That she healed and was able to move past her struggles by using the art of reading. That can reading can make you happier. This not only connecting with her audience, people in need of psychological help, but adds to the new therapy’s credibility. Showing that the power of literature was able to heal someone. Overall Covey writes a compelling piece that shows the new found power of literature and how it is truly helping others. 

IRB Intro Post #2

I have decided for the second independent reading book I would read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. This book was reccomended to me by the mother who really enjoyed reading this memoir.  I also chose to read this book because I really enjoy reading memoirs and learning about different lives than mine. This memoir seems very interesting and I look forward to reading more of it.

TOW #8- IRB- The Glass Castle

"The Glass Castle" is about author Jeanette Walls's unorthodox childhood with unconventional parents and her ability to stray from this past to become a successful 21st century woman. The author Jeannette Walls is an American journalist most notably known for her work as a gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. Her purpose in writing this novel was to illustrate her nomadic lifestyle and how she was able to overcome her challenging past in order to become her own person. The rhetorical term she most utilizes in this novel is Symbolism. "I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes" (Walls 34). Fire is a reoccurring symbol in this novel. The book starts off with Jeannette's earliest memory of being on fire. Strangely enough Jeannette isn't afraid of fire afterwards and is instead fascinated by it. Her mother tells her "You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire," (Walls 15). In a way it represents her struggles because even though it almost kills her she isn't afraid and keeps going back and literally and figuratively playing with fire. It destroys many things throughout the novel yet Jeannette acts like a phoenix and is reborn out the ashes each time stronger than before. I believe Walls effectively uses the symbolism of fire to show her purpose of rising and overcoming her past. By strategically mentioning fire in pivotal moments of her life, Walls takes advantage of this symbol and it further validates and expresses the overcoming of her unconventional past.