Summary Of The Culture Of Thin Bites Fiji
Kelly Galicia Waxham ENG III H-1 February 26th, 2024.
Body Image has always been a very controversial topic for most people. Some people think there is a certain look or size that will bring infinite success. The truth is, everyone has different opinions on what is and isn’t good enough. The author does a great job at explaining this and showing the bad side of this mindset by using many different rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Ellen Goodman wrote, “The Culture of Thin Bites Fiji'', to show her argument on the constant changes in how people view themselves and others throughout their life. Ellen Goodman uses many different rhetorical devices. At the beginning of this passage, she talks about how many teenagers’ lives became at risk, she states,”Within …show more content…
This use of logos shows the danger of this information because it proves how bad this situation is. This is shown to be a huge change in not that long of a time-span. Continuing in this paragraph, she says, “Worse yet, 74 percent of the Fiji teens in the study said they felt “too big or fat” at least some of the time and 62 percent said they had dieted in the past month” (Goodman 502). There is a significant increase in the amount of people’s change in mindset. While before this was never a problem, it is now affecting the people of Fiji greatly at such a young age. This is shown through the specific information that she uses in this passage. As she explains the cause of these changes, it reads, “In just 38 months, and with only one channel, a television-free culture that defined a fat person as robust has become a television culture that sees robust as, well, repulsive” (Goodman 502). It is clear how something so minuscule can have a great effect on people. Even though this was seen as a minor change, it still managed to change the mindset that hundreds of people have on themselves. The author uses these types of rhetorical devices in order
Body Image has always been a very controversial topic for most people. Some people think there is a certain look or size that will bring infinite success. The truth is, everyone has different opinions on what is and isn’t good enough. The author does a great job at explaining this and showing the bad side of this mindset by using many different rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos. Ellen Goodman wrote, “The Culture of Thin Bites Fiji'', to show her argument on the constant changes in how people view themselves and others throughout their life. Ellen Goodman uses many different rhetorical devices. At the beginning of this passage, she talks about how many teenagers’ lives became at risk, she states,”Within …show more content…
This use of logos shows the danger of this information because it proves how bad this situation is. This is shown to be a huge change in not that long of a time-span. Continuing in this paragraph, she says, “Worse yet, 74 percent of the Fiji teens in the study said they felt “too big or fat” at least some of the time and 62 percent said they had dieted in the past month” (Goodman 502). There is a significant increase in the amount of people’s change in mindset. While before this was never a problem, it is now affecting the people of Fiji greatly at such a young age. This is shown through the specific information that she uses in this passage. As she explains the cause of these changes, it reads, “In just 38 months, and with only one channel, a television-free culture that defined a fat person as robust has become a television culture that sees robust as, well, repulsive” (Goodman 502). It is clear how something so minuscule can have a great effect on people. Even though this was seen as a minor change, it still managed to change the mindset that hundreds of people have on themselves. The author uses these types of rhetorical devices in order