Assignment #6- Responding to Peers and Considering Rhetorical Situations

I posted on Arnela Alekic's Blog with: "I think that the is trying to pull in artist, specifically men with the impression that he will live some luxurious life painting beautiful, half-naked (or fully naked) women for tons of cash by attending their art institutions. If you know anything about art, this is not necessarily the case. I like this ad because it's easy to bring up the problem with advertisement, it's completely unrealistic and misleading to sway viewers.
My peer could use more detail, like how this beautiful women posing and she's enjoying herself and it's almost kind of sexual. They're selling a fantasy."

The rhetorical issue in my literacy narrative parallels perfectly with that of the advertisement analysis because they both contain the theme of reading between the lines and finding the underlying message that can sometimes be masked or hard to find the real goal in the message. In my literacy narrative, I'm focusing on a novel I read a few years ago of how it distracts the reader with one idea, but when you go deeper into the illusion, you find meaning. For example, In the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, the professor or teacher is a gorilla and the student is a man. When I first read it, I thought it was absurd and, for lack of a better word, stupid. But the message was the stance of human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom. It was stance of whether you felt like evolution ended with humans, or God created the world for man and man is the center of the universe, if you will OR if you feel that humans are on the same level as animals and we're in this together.  The dove add is seeming an innovative push for women to be comfortable in their own skin, but what I found is that it's no different from any other advertisement because they focus on alienating certain people. This alienation occurs by campaign slogans like, "Real women have curves", saying that if you're a very thin female, you don't qualify as a woman. It fights the conflict of the thicker women being downplayed throughout the media by creating another conflict of doing the same exact thing against the opposite.