If Someone Did You A Favor
If someone did you a favor, something big, something that you could not do on your own, and instead of paying it back, you paid it forward to three people. Imagine the next day, they each paid it forward to three more people. And imagine the day after, those 27 people each paid it forward to another three people. Then each day afterwards, everyone in turn paid it forward to three more people; in two weeks that comes to 4,782,969 people.
This is the idea that gives the movie Pay It Forward such persuasive appeal. The specific persuasive purpose is to get people to think how such a simple idea can make a big difference. Another persuasive goal of the movie was to get people to not be afraid to help others, and tell those people to help other like they were helped. The idea must follow these three rules: First, It has to be something that really helps people. Second, It has to be something they can't do by themselves. Lastly, if I do it for them, they do it for three other people.
The plot of the movie is a school social studies assignment leads to acts of kindness that spread from city-to-city. When assigned to come up with some idea that will improve the world, a seventh grader boy Trevor McKinney decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, then the world might be a better place. Initially the plan appears to fail, but it is indeed a success that is not immediately known by Trevor. The plan was traced back to its original source by a reporter who received a brand new jaguar as a “pay it forward” gift when his car got totaled.
The initial people Trevor tries to help are a heroin addict whom he brings home, lets him sleep in his garage, and gives him a little money to get his life together. The second is Mr. Simonet, a badly scarred teacher who cannot accept a change of routine in his life. He then tries to help his poorly recovering alcoholic mother Arlene McKinney. Lastly, he tries to stand up...
This is the idea that gives the movie Pay It Forward such persuasive appeal. The specific persuasive purpose is to get people to think how such a simple idea can make a big difference. Another persuasive goal of the movie was to get people to not be afraid to help others, and tell those people to help other like they were helped. The idea must follow these three rules: First, It has to be something that really helps people. Second, It has to be something they can't do by themselves. Lastly, if I do it for them, they do it for three other people.
The plot of the movie is a school social studies assignment leads to acts of kindness that spread from city-to-city. When assigned to come up with some idea that will improve the world, a seventh grader boy Trevor McKinney decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can "pay it forward" and so forth, then the world might be a better place. Initially the plan appears to fail, but it is indeed a success that is not immediately known by Trevor. The plan was traced back to its original source by a reporter who received a brand new jaguar as a “pay it forward” gift when his car got totaled.
The initial people Trevor tries to help are a heroin addict whom he brings home, lets him sleep in his garage, and gives him a little money to get his life together. The second is Mr. Simonet, a badly scarred teacher who cannot accept a change of routine in his life. He then tries to help his poorly recovering alcoholic mother Arlene McKinney. Lastly, he tries to stand up...