Thank you for Arguing.. It's becoming clear

I don't know about the rest of you, but remembering how to write a rhetorical analysis after not writing one in a while was a fear of mine. Thank you for Arguing presents a unique and understanding way to not just understand how to write a persuasive argument, especially in regards to the movies, but helps in understanding Platoon's argument in a new way. Once the major dramatizations of Platoon were pointed out I realized how easy is it to get caught up in these dramatizations and see this film as such a great film depiction of the Vietnam War, the exact thing I did when I first watched it.

Through reading Thank You for Arguing it can be learned that a persuasive argument includes details such as pathos and ways to persuasively pull in your audience. When reading that we want our audiences to be attentive, trusting, and willing to be persuaded, I understand how it is possible for people to fall into Platoon and believe that its dramatizations are more of reality. Because of all the action we as viewers are drawn in and become attentive, something the director was trying to do to develop his argument. In order for us to trust him, we are given the information that he was a war veteran and therefore as humans we trust his point of view because we think all actions depicted would be true since he saw the actual Vietnam War first hand. Also, because of this information, we are willing to be persuaded to believe that his views of the war expressed are completely truthful with what actually happened in the Vietnam War.

The director knew these tactics needed to be addressed therefore he was able to pull of these dramatizations in his film and still knew the audience would be drawn in and believe everything he presented on screen. He shows that the choices shown on screen could very well have affected him personally since he was a veteran of the war. It's almost like the director read Thank You for Arguing himself and knew exactly what to do to bring the audience to believe all his dramatizations and depictions of the Vietnam War.