The Mask You Live In Essay

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary, The Mask You Live In (2015), is a demonstrative rhetor that makes boys and young men confront to stay true to themselves while consulting world’s definition of masculinity. The issue of masculinity creates an argument on the functionality of Kairos and the rhetorical situation in this documentary. In other words, where does this issue of masculinity applies, and who discusses this issue and who is the victim to see this issue. Accordingly, documentaries are produced on the true events, which already has been occurred, or on those events which are still part of our current life. This documentary shows that the study on the issue of masculinity is explained by teachers and parents, but in actual case it is not. They are just paraphrasing what the boys and young men are telling them. In this situation students and children will have no …show more content…
Due to this, it makes us the audience of this issue and by us, I mean every single boy and young men. We are the intended, actual or the main audience, however, you want to define. Indeed, this makes us the target because we are the one who is wearing the mask of masculinity and does not want to express our feelings. From this we can say that this documentary is intended for boys and young men to spread a message. For example, in one of the scene in the beginning of the documentary there was a teenage boy who said, “I wish I would have taken part in the theater production in high school”. Now, he is realizing that wearing that mask of masculinity in his childhood was a mistake. If he would have taken that class his current situation would have been better. Not every single boy wants to wear the mask of masculinity, they also want to be the part of the society where they have to use their mental skills. But, due to others making fun of them they wear those masks of masculinity at every