Rhetorical Analysis Of The Onion

With an energetic tone, The Onion implies that in today’s society, the average human being is spending his money irresponsibly on pointless items that he doesn’t need - or knows deep in his heart, doesn’t even want. In order to prove this, they emphasize the insanity that has come to how products are marketed to consumers. The rapacious producers, desperate for money, will advertise anything to trick the audience into satisfying their greedy souls. The Onion, in their humourous piece of writing, has caught them red-handed.

The authors begin by addressing the direct consumers of the product, “stressed and sore-footed Americans everywhere.” When writing this, The Onion effortlessly catches the audience’s attention. They are hooked onto …show more content…
When expressing that MagnaSoles is “a total foot-rejuvenation system” made with the medical technique of “reflexology,” the audience is furthermore hooked on to the product, making the convincing way too easy. Proceeding, is a metaphor relating the …show more content…
Just because DeAngelis claimed that they were endorsed by a man who merely just “look[ed]” intelligent in a “white lab coat,” does not mean that he was an authentic doctor. He could have easily been fooled, just like other American consumers.
The trickery involved in the abstruse advertisements of the “exciting new MagnaSoles” hide the solid truth. They’re just typical shoe inserts, nothing more and nothing less. While providing a wake-up call for consumers who are blindly depleting money as if it grows on trees, The Onion also asserts that just like the MagnaSoles, the selfish, money-obsessed producers are three things: Magna-False, Magna-Weak and most of all,