The Final Post

An Introduction to my Blog

I chose Grace and Frankie as my text to write methods on, because I knew the series well, and loved it. I believed I had enough text to choose from, since it had five seasons. I knew I had enough characters to work with and a lot of stuff going on within the show, as well. After applying all these methods to it, (not to mention watching the episodes over and over again, looking for them), Grace and Frankie, is much deeper than what I first thought of the show to be. Before applying the methods, Grace and Frankie was just a show I knew I could depend on for a good laugh. I thought I was watching a bunch of characters’ lives take a turn for the worst, and wonder what would happen next to them or how they were going to go about solving their unfortunate situations. What I didn’t realize was that this show is a lot more meaningful and heartfelt, than I thought. It shows the relationships of two people, Grace and Frankie, and the bond they have. That even though a lot can happen in your life, you always have that other someone to be there for you. The situations that happen to them, happen to others are more relatable than I thought. This show is about perseverance and always standing up for what you believe in. 

After going back through five of my criticism posts, I have come to realize how much more I understand each of these methods. When I first initially wrote them, I didn’t feel I had a grasp on fully understanding the methods. I felt like I was going in blind and doing my best of what I thought was the method. I learned a lot after reading my fellow classmate’s posts, and taking in all the feedback I received, that I had the right idea all along. It was also fun to go back through and realize myself, all the mistakes and slight misunderstandings I had of the methods. Learning all these methods helps me better understand any text I encounter now, including songs, movies, tv shows, documentaries, etc. It helps me understand what is going on better, and makes things much more interesting.

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Originals:

• CP 1 – Rhetorical Situation
• CP 2 – Neo Classical, The Canon
• CP 3 – 4th Persona 
• CP 4 – Neo Classical, Logos, Pathos, Ethos
• CP 5 – Pentad

Revised:

• CP 1 – Rhetorical Situation
• CP 2 – Neo Classical, The Canon
• CP 3 – 4th Persona 
• CP 4 – Neo Classical, Logos, Pathos, Ethos
• CP 5 – Pentad

When writing about the rhetorical situation method, I realized that without this method, you wouldn’t understand what is going on at all with the text. This method sets you up to comprehend the entire text you are watching, listening to, etc. The canon was probably one of the hardest, maybe even the hardest method I used. I think that is why I also only wrote about three of the five parts it consisted of. The canon breaks your text apart, and really makes you think what this text is actually saying/doing. You really have to do some digging, but once you discover the parts of the canon, your text becomes more meaningful. I was unsure of the fourth persona method at first, because I wasn’t sure I was using a great example of it. I found out later that one of our class readings from Morris, actually used a text similar to mine, which I didn’t know because I didn’t choose that reading myself. The fourth persona is fun to use, because of the textual wink. I like to try to find these textual winks in all the texts I come across now. I used the part of the neo classical method, pathos, and that for me was easier to apply my text to, just because I am familiar with logos, pathos, and ethos from previous classes. Pathos is always great to analyze, because it makes you feel a part of the text, as if you are right in there with whatever is going on. The final revision I had was the pentad method. The pentad was the scariest method for me, because I didn’t feel like I understood it, not to mention all the parts to it made it seem like a lot could go wrong, if not applying it correctly. It turned out to be my favorite method out of all of the methods I used, because of all the parts in it, and how it all connects at the end. Even though I did not get all the parts of the pentad correct the first time, once I discovered what I did wrong, it was very easy to understand and fix. The pentad is a great way to understand everything involved in your text, and to find the real motive behind your text.