Questions. 02/02 - 02/06

Question week 2.
1.The story about Turning Triumph is really interesting. Burke elaborates rhetoric in every analysis that observers are making about the Challenger. In Turning Triumph, Burke wrote about “dramatistic” approach. From my point of view, in everything that happened in our lives, there must be a drama. There is always drama in the simplest things. For example, when my best friend went to Los Angeles for study, my friends and I cried and we were really sad. The feeling that we had was like we were never going to see her again, which was so dramatize. In the story Turning Triumph, Burke analyze that analysis of drama developed the consideration the matter of motives in a perspective. “Understood and interpreted through this perspective emphasizing the interdependent and active relationship between rhetoric and situation.” I wonder why there should be a drama in every situation? And why can drama affect people’s perspective?

2.In the story, there is also one part about Identification. In the chapter, identification is important because it is the connection between speaker and audience. For example, when President Barrack Obama said that ‘we’ have hope to change this nation. The word ‘we’ represents all Americans. With this method, President Obama invites his entire fellow citizens to feel included. I think identification is important, since it will develop the relationship between speaker and the audience; however, I think there is a limitation for included people as one group, because not all people want to become part of the group. How do you think about this identification? Is it a good way to include people? Or can it make a distance between speaker and audience?

3.Reading The Philosophy of Literacy Form was really difficult. It was hard to understand the full meaning of what Burke is trying to say. One of the examples that Burke wrote was about different type of snow. He wrote that “a different name for snow implies a different kind of hunt.” That means that they have many types of snow and have different meaning. It is related to our social situation. For example, if we talk about rain, there are shower and pour rain. It has different interpretation. I don’t know if I get the meaning of the chapter correct or not; however, from my point of view, philosophy sometimes is not the best way to describe something, because people can interpret things differently. There can be a misunderstanding between the writer and the audience. How others think about philosophy? Is it a good thing?