Jeffrey Guardado
Professor Cons-Diller
English 103
28 October 2017
Master Narratives and Counter Narratives in a Television Show The Office is a sitcom that talks about the day to day life of office workers in a fictional paper sales company. The Office is a television show that aired on NBC in the years 2005-2013. The company the employers work at is called Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. that takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The boss of the company is named Michael Scott who treats his employers in a very awkward way. In the episode title, Diversity Day, is the second episode of the first season of The Office, aired on March 29, 2005. In a clip from that episode, Michael Scott decides to do an activity with his staff to help them …show more content…
Michael Scott wants everyone to have a flash card in their forehead without knowing what it says. The flash cards has a specific ethic background and he wants everyone to have a conversation with partner to guess what word is said in their flash card. Michael Scott wants his staff to say stereotypes to their partner of the ethic group they have to each other while guessing what it says. In the television show The Office, the use of master narratives and counter narratives are used in conversations with a specific language by the characters on show while reflecting on the appeal of pathos. A conversation between the staff members, Pam and Stanley, question what they have in their flash cards. Pam has "Jewish" in her flash card and Stanley has "Black" in his card. Pam and Stanley starts by greeting each other and Stanley later gives a compliment …show more content…
Kevin and Angela begin with a basic conversation by greeting each other. Kevin tells Angela "You want to get high", Angela says "No"and Kevin replies saying, "I think you do mon". Angela looks annoyed when calls her a "Mon" and she wants Kevin to not continue talking. A master narrative is said by Kevin commenting that all Jamaicans do drugs. Michael is the counter narrative because he feels Kevin needs to be more aggressive with naming more stereotypes of the flash card that Angela has. Michael decides to show an example by talking to one of his staff members name Kelly, who's ethnic background is Indian, while impersonating a stereotypical way of how an Indian would sound like. Michael says "Do you wants some cookie" repeatedly at Kelly. Kelly then slaps Micheal because she took his impersonation very offensive. The pathos in this scene is Kelly feeling offended by Michael's impersonation of an Indian because he assumes that all Indians work at convenient
Professor Cons-Diller
English 103
28 October 2017
Master Narratives and Counter Narratives in a Television Show The Office is a sitcom that talks about the day to day life of office workers in a fictional paper sales company. The Office is a television show that aired on NBC in the years 2005-2013. The company the employers work at is called Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. that takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The boss of the company is named Michael Scott who treats his employers in a very awkward way. In the episode title, Diversity Day, is the second episode of the first season of The Office, aired on March 29, 2005. In a clip from that episode, Michael Scott decides to do an activity with his staff to help them …show more content…
Michael Scott wants everyone to have a flash card in their forehead without knowing what it says. The flash cards has a specific ethic background and he wants everyone to have a conversation with partner to guess what word is said in their flash card. Michael Scott wants his staff to say stereotypes to their partner of the ethic group they have to each other while guessing what it says. In the television show The Office, the use of master narratives and counter narratives are used in conversations with a specific language by the characters on show while reflecting on the appeal of pathos. A conversation between the staff members, Pam and Stanley, question what they have in their flash cards. Pam has "Jewish" in her flash card and Stanley has "Black" in his card. Pam and Stanley starts by greeting each other and Stanley later gives a compliment …show more content…
Kevin and Angela begin with a basic conversation by greeting each other. Kevin tells Angela "You want to get high", Angela says "No"and Kevin replies saying, "I think you do mon". Angela looks annoyed when calls her a "Mon" and she wants Kevin to not continue talking. A master narrative is said by Kevin commenting that all Jamaicans do drugs. Michael is the counter narrative because he feels Kevin needs to be more aggressive with naming more stereotypes of the flash card that Angela has. Michael decides to show an example by talking to one of his staff members name Kelly, who's ethnic background is Indian, while impersonating a stereotypical way of how an Indian would sound like. Michael says "Do you wants some cookie" repeatedly at Kelly. Kelly then slaps Micheal because she took his impersonation very offensive. The pathos in this scene is Kelly feeling offended by Michael's impersonation of an Indian because he assumes that all Indians work at convenient