For the Junior Humanities class called Rhetoric .We learned about the different techniques and appeals of Rhetoric. For example, the appeals for Rhetoric are Logos which is an appeal to reason, Ethos which is showing credibility and Pathos which is an appeal to emotion. Techniques are devices like, anaphora which is when you make a certain word or phrase repeat in one or more sentences. Simile is making a comparison using the words like or as. For this action project we had to make an artistic piece that represents something that we feel strongly about. Me and my partner decided to make a voice over of the train to make people realize who rides the train, for example homeless people. It’s called ‘The Voices Of The Lost.This piece makes people realize that not everyone around them has what they have. To be blunt it is a piece about the homeless that go unnoticed in Chicago. This piece breaks the barrier of the status quo by putting people through the experiences they live through every day and make them realize what they have so blindly forgotten or ignored. When hearing this recording we want the listener to think about all the different people that struggle through life. We wanted to unite all of the people in Chicago to help those who can’t help themselves. This artwork is original except for the sounds my partner found on the internet to make it sound like the listener was actually on the train. He made a script that would get the attention of people.
(LS,The Voices Of The Lost Ones"(2016)
Our rhetorical appeal in this piece is pathos. Throughout the recording , we were trying to get people to feel like they were on a train and then make them think about questions asked by my partner LS. Ethos was also a part in the piece as well. If people were to come up to each other on the train an repeat what the recording is saying, it would not have the same response. This message coming from the intercom, which is always spitting out stops about the train plays a huge part of the response to people. If you look at any map of the racial boundaries of the city, it is obvious that there is a strong divide ,where the groups of color live in Chicago. Many people may even feel that they live in a completely different city. In most cases, people that live up north aren't even aware that problems happen as far as racism as frequent as it does. This is why instead of attacking the people that are unaware, we want to make aware of there mistakes.
Often, we don’t care to think that there are homeless people that live on these trains. When we do see them, we complain behind the safety of our computer screens about them sleeping on the seats of the train. One well known homeless person is Freddie the homeless man ("Forgotten"). He sleeps on the Redline all day until the beds at a shelter open up at night. There are 2,055 people that live on the street or public transportation and parks in 2015 (Rianne). We want people to want to get involved on their own accord, not because they got ideas shoved into their head.
Citation:
Coale, Rianne. "As Homeless Numbers Rise in Chicago, CTA Is a Place of Refuge | Transit Diaries." Redeyechicago.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 30 Oct. 2016.
"The Forgotten Passengers." A Red Line Project Special Report. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2016.
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