A Rhetorical Analysis Of Gary Turk's Look Up

Later he described today’s childhood saying “Now the parks are so quiet, it gives a chill to see no children outside and the swings hanging still. There’s no skipping or hopscotch, no church, and no steeple. We’re generation of idiots, smartphones, and dumb people.” The video shows kids playing on their iPads and video games instead of playing with each other. The expression of the children is different too. They aren’t laughing; they are staring at their electronic devices without a facial expression. Also, they are wearing warm colors.
Turk’s video is about how we are looking down at our phones all the time, and he uses that to spread his message. He is using the internet to make people realize that we shouldn’t be watching that video and we should be enjoying our lives. Gary Turk ends the video saying “Disconnect from the need to be heard and defined. Go out into the world, leave distractions behind. Look up from your phone, shut down that display, stop watching this video, live life the real way.”
Gary Turk wrote below his video "'Look Up' is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect …show more content…
We are so comfortable with the idea that we don't need to open up with people, that we don't need anyone to be happy, that we don't have a person that we can fall apart in front of them. We don't have a person that comforts us when we don't know how to help ourselves. We need to start showing people that we care for them, that we know them deeply. When we know people better, we have a higher chance to get along with them. We argue less; we enjoy life more. And more important, we stop feeling alone. Gary Turk says "I am guilty too, of being part of this machine, this digital world, we are heard but not seen. Where we type don't talk, where we read as we chat, where we spend hours together, without making eye