Ryan Lowry
Ashe
Engl. 111-52C
February 4, 2015
Rhetorical Analysis 1: Sam Anderson’s “Just one more game…: Angry Birds, Farmville, and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games” The article “Just one more game…: Angry birds, Farmville, and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games” written by Sam Anderson was published both in New York Times Sunday magazine and also online at NYTimes.com. Sam Anderson is a critic for the new York times magazine which he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism in 2007. Anderson’s article addresses “stupid games” such as Tetris, Angry Birds, and others as a slightly subjective view of society and how it has become today. The seven elements of rhetorical analysis are as follows. The first one is context which is the history and situation of the issue they are addressing. Occasion is why the writer is writing the article. The writer is who wrote the article and any history they have on the subject. The genre is the type of writing of the piece. Audience is who the article or piece is aimed at and this is who the writer wants to read their writing. The purpose is what the …show more content…
Anderson mentions during the beginning of the article that there have been game-studies mentioning that throughout time, many games reflects the society that we are in. Some of these that are mentioned are Monopoly that was made in the 1930s during the depression, or Risk in the 1950s was about the Cold-war. Anderson makes the same connection with more modern games, along with one not so recent, Tetris. Tetris reflects exactly when and where it was made, in a soviet computer lab in the 1980s. In the article, it describes Tetris as a start of the tedious never-ending games which makes us waste time that we see today, such as Angry Birds and
Ashe
Engl. 111-52C
February 4, 2015
Rhetorical Analysis 1: Sam Anderson’s “Just one more game…: Angry Birds, Farmville, and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games” The article “Just one more game…: Angry birds, Farmville, and Other Hyperaddictive Stupid Games” written by Sam Anderson was published both in New York Times Sunday magazine and also online at NYTimes.com. Sam Anderson is a critic for the new York times magazine which he received the Balakian Award for Excellence in Criticism in 2007. Anderson’s article addresses “stupid games” such as Tetris, Angry Birds, and others as a slightly subjective view of society and how it has become today. The seven elements of rhetorical analysis are as follows. The first one is context which is the history and situation of the issue they are addressing. Occasion is why the writer is writing the article. The writer is who wrote the article and any history they have on the subject. The genre is the type of writing of the piece. Audience is who the article or piece is aimed at and this is who the writer wants to read their writing. The purpose is what the …show more content…
Anderson mentions during the beginning of the article that there have been game-studies mentioning that throughout time, many games reflects the society that we are in. Some of these that are mentioned are Monopoly that was made in the 1930s during the depression, or Risk in the 1950s was about the Cold-war. Anderson makes the same connection with more modern games, along with one not so recent, Tetris. Tetris reflects exactly when and where it was made, in a soviet computer lab in the 1980s. In the article, it describes Tetris as a start of the tedious never-ending games which makes us waste time that we see today, such as Angry Birds and