Rhetorical Analysis Of The Film 'Chef's Table'

What is happiness? What does it mean to have the right to happiness? The right to happiness can be defined and explained in a variety of ways. Some believe that you have a direct right to happiness, others believe that you must earn it. Personally, I believe we have the right to pursue our own version of happiness as long as it does not interfere with the happiness or journey to happiness of others. In this rhetorical analysis I will be analyzing the work of C.S. Lewis’s “We Have No “Right to Happiness” and the film "Chef's Table” featuring guest star Cristina Martinez through a critical lens of psychology. While C.S. Lewis's essay "We Have No Right to Happiness" and Cristina Martinez's appearance on "Chef's Table" appear to be completely different

They establish credibility for her food by providing positive feedback about her food and her restaurant. Craig LaBan discusses her food and says: "Her [Cristina Martinez's] barbacoa is not just some trendy food to be Instagrammed, it's the real deal. It's the kind of cooking that takes generations of family tradition and know-how, it's the kind of food that you can't fake." He gives her food and restaurant authentic credibility with this quote. Finally, The documentary makers and filmmakers utilize logos through the use of factual and logical arguments to back up what they're saying and shed light on major social and political issues. Filmmakers go deep into the history and cultural significance of the baraboca. By showing the traditional techniques Martinez uses when preparing barbacoa to highlight the difficulty it is to prepare and the difficulties she has to go through when running her authentic barbacoa

C.S Lewis makes his argument in his article “ “We Have No “Right to Happiness.” He uses a story about two people who left their significant others to be with each other as his basis of his argument in the article. Analyzing this documentary from a critical lens of psychology I assume it is because of the way he was raised. Lewis was raised in a christian household where I'm sure his parents upheld him on his moral values which is why he disagrees on being selfish and causing the unhappiness of others. A good example of this is the study "Religion and Children's Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Inductive Reasoning Skills" by Jean Decety and his colleagues, published in the journal Current Biology in 2015. In the study researchers recruited children from non religious households and religious households to see which have more compassion and sympathy. Results from the study show that children from religious households show way more compassion and sympathy to others. Lewis uses pathos, ethos and logos, to support his argument of having basic moral