The purpose of the article "Big Mac Attack" is to convince the audience that McDonald's foods are unhealthy, disgusting, and causes obesity. The author has multiple of negative depictions of McDonald. They wanted to readers to become disgusted by the sight of the images depicted and change their viewpoint of McDonald. For example, the author included a picture of a gross bloody-looking chicken with text that says "Do you want fries with that?" which enhances the author's purpose by creating a negative outlook about McDonald's food. This convinces readers to not eat McDonald's food and become disgusted by the food. The author's other purpose is to convince readers that the McDonald's foods are unhealthy or cause obesity. For example, the author …show more content…
The tone is disheartening because one of the pictures portrays a text that reads, "Eat Fast, Die Young" which creates feelings of disheartening for the readers since they are discouraged from eating McDonald's food. In fact, this makes readers avoid McDonald's food since they do not want to die young. Meanwhile, the tone is mocking since the author is mocking McDonald for creating food that causes obesity or mocking people for eating McDonald. For example, the picture of an obese person with the McDonald shirt creates this tone of mocking since the author is shaming audiences for eating greasy foods from McDonald's as well as McDonald for its unhealthy food. Finally, the tone is negative since the author portrays the food as unhealthy. For example, one of the pictures that have the text of "Eat Fast, Die Young". This creates the tone of negativity since the author uses the word "death" to describe the food which makes the readers view McDonald's food as dangerous and deadly. Although, tones might vary from person to person. For another reader's viewpoint, they might view the picture as informative and insightful since the pictures allow them to become aware of the potential risks that McDonald's foods have. The tone depends on the person's viewpoint, background, culture, and other factors which allow multiple terms to be interpreted. Overall, the tone …show more content…
One of the problematic vagueness was when the author was trying to describe that McDonald's foods are dangerous or unhealthy. For example, the author had an image with the text "Eat Fast, Die Young" which is vague since the readers do not know what causes death. In fact, the image brings several questions: What food makes people die young? Was it the salad? The hamburger? The fries? This creates confusion behind the author's intent behind the meaning of the message. Another problematic vagueness was when the author was trying to portray that McDonald causes obesity. For example, an obese person is wearing a t-shirt that reads "I'm loving it". Thus, this is vague since it creates several questions: Loving what? The shirt? The food? Being obese? Therefore, this creates confusion among the readers on whether the author wanted to persuade the audience that McDonald causes obesity. Although one of the few problematic ambiguity was that the author was trying to persuade the readers that Big Macs are unhealthy. For example, one of the images depicts a surgical operation with the text of "Big Mac Attacks" which has multiple meanings for the word attack. The word attack could be interpreted as aggressive violence, disease, criticizing or dealing with a problem in an aggressive way. This creates confusion on what the Big Mac was attacking, which diminish the author's
“Even their name is made out of limp French Fries,” she asserted. “Why would you want to eat their food? To her, the M in McDonald’s looked like two yellow, bent-over fries.” The imagery here allows the reader to picture the M in their mind as two fries that are bent because they are covered in grease. Through this vivid description of the M, the author displays her children’s hatred towards McDonalds, the fast food chain that every child loves.
This appeals to our physiological needs because naturally, humans need to eat food and to hear from a professional that there are other influences outside of food that are giving cause to the obesity crisis gives Americans a slight sigh of relief when it comes to the degree of toxicity of our foods. Furthermore, that people eat a more wholesome diet versus those that do not, tend to be healthier than that live on fast and processed foods,there are also stark differences to recognize between these classes that should be taken into account as well such as the tendency to engage in exercise, air quality, and other health considerations such as smoking and
This rhetorical term is used for language and description that appeals to our five senses. In the text, the writer states how routine fast food has become. “Pull open the glass door, feel the rush of cool air, walk in, get on line,….place your order, hand over a few dollar….and moments later take hold of a plastic tray full of food….”. Schlosser uses imagery to allow the reader to feel more like they are in the actual setting or seeing the actual conditions he describes. He gives a long list to mimic how routine buying fast food has become.
In Fast Food Nation, the author uses multiple rhetorical strategies to achieve an overall tone and effect. One device, however, was utilized throughout the book. To achieve the tone of disapproval, pathos, the appeal to emotions, was strongly used in each part of the book. For example, the book states, “At times the animals are crowded so closely together it looks like a sea of cattle, a mooing, moving mass of brown and white fur that goes on for acres.” This appeals to the readers emotions because it discusses the cruel treatment of cows.
He states that healthier food is expensive, and sometimes the cheapest way to have fewer calories is McDonald’s. Freedman argues sometimes healthy food is not
Zinczenko’s Rhetorical Precis In his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater,” David Zinczenko sympathizes for port fast-food patron, like himself ages ago, he agrees that food industry should take some responsibility for obesity. He supports his claim by warning consumers about the dangers of fast food,as it play a factor in obesity. Within his argument, he questions other counter arguments and uses his narrative tone to show consumers that the food industry is necessarily at fault. Zincenko believes the prevalence of fast food and the lack of healthier food alternatives is causing obesity in America.
The first two cafes drinks were more caloric, double the price and took longer than the third café. Given that, Freedman thanks McDonalds. Eminent voices in the food culture convince people that McDonalds is unhealthy. Most processed foods are considered unhealthy because of the artificial flavoring, and preservatives. That being the case, whole-some foods are considered healthy because it doesn’t sit on the shelf for a month.
(page 112). Emotions like this enhance the feeling of the text and changes how things are inferred. Imagine the tone and mood are the center of the universe, the wonders of how things are created, or the juiciest part of a burger. Without the meat, the burger(story) is just lame, and no one wants to eat(read) it. The mood and tone are building blocks to the theme, and the whole novel, or
For my pleasant impression, I stated “Nature’s beauty surrounds me,” emphasizing the beauty on can find in a place such as this. In contrast, for my negative impression, I wrote “Death has had her way here.” The notion of death immediately makes the tone grim and unpleasant, even though death is also a fundamental aspect of the natural world. With my tone clearly established, I next had to consider my word choice very carefully. In order to show the reader what I experienced, I had to choose words that fit the mood of the description as set by my overt statements of meaning.
Junk food is responsible for the growing rate of obesity. This is outlined by David freedman in his article of “How junk food can end obesity.” David Freedman has credited the “health-food” motion, and followers of it along with Michel Pollan. Freedman claims that if the America desires to stop the obesity epidemic, or at least reduce its effects, they must shift to the fast meals and processed meals enterprise for assist, now not the “health-food” movement.
The idea of asking questions along his article keeps the audience engaged into reading more. Apart from capturing the audience to keep reading he also misleads his point from the shifting of two different concepts and agreement to one. From the begging of his article he says, "Whatever happened to personal responsibility?". Referring to kids suing McDonalds for making them fat. As he reaches the end of the article he says," Fast food companies are marketing to children a product health Hazards and no warning labels.
He also embraces songs throughout the film, that makes a mockery of fast food restaurants throughout the film. For example, at the beginning of the film, he shows a scene of a group of children singing about fast food restaurants to imply how children are addicted to fast food. Spurlock additionally used pictures that mocked McDonalds and is proven among each scene as a technique to psychologically impact the target audience and cause them to question McDonalds. One example of this is when Spurlock shows one of McDonalds prime characters wearing devil horns. Another technique that Spurlock used to influence the target audience to trust that fast food is dangerous is via interviewing a medical professional who states, “obesity is one of the leading causes of demise, after smoking” (Super-Size).
The tone is set as horrifying at first, dealing with Andy. Once it flashes back, the tone changes to calm, then heated, interesting, suspicious, and surprising. The theme is about teenage love (seniors and their relationships with each other) and friendships
As people have issues about Mcdonalds’ low food quality toward people’s health. However, there is another important area that we have to consider seriously about is how its system, so-called “Mcdonaldization”has influenced and continuously effecting our society. From the article “McJobs: Mcdonaldization and the Workplace” by George Ritzer, he distributes the idea of how Mcdonaldized system has changed our society into scripted and “programmized” places (Ritzer 1998:140). He has specifically analyzed the McJobs’( job that has been Mcdonaldized) into four elements,which is its efficiency, calculation, prediction and control. As the nature of the world is made of a full of colors, diverse opinions of people naturally exist toward the term
“Don’t Blame the Eater”, written by David Zinczenko, is a short article discussing how fast food is the main cause of childhood obesity. This article came about in relations to two kids filing a lawsuit against McDonalds for making them fat. He begins his piece by sympathizing with these individuals because he used to be like them. Zinczenko then informs the reader of his background and how he fell into the category of being dependent upon quick and easy meals. In an attempt to provide a valid argument, he debates on how kids raise themselves while their parents are at work and that the nutritional values are not labeled upon prepared foods.