I Am Legend Rhetorical Devices

When one hears the title I Am Legend being mentioned, they usually associate it with Will Smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story Robert Neville. However, what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book, I Am Legend, and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, I Am Legend, both have similarities and differences, in the end, the original book version prevails mainly because the movie version alters the original storyline too much.

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle, being a persuasive novel in nature, is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone, use of periodic sentencing, descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric, Upton Sinclair constructs a moving novel that makes his message, and the reasoning behind it, clear.Sinclair’s use of periodic sentences allows him to cram details and supporting evidence into his sentence before revealing his interpretation of the evidence. Take for example, “Here

Chris ventured off into the wild and away from his course of life for one reason, to escape his problems and society. Chris was brought up in a privileged household,, but not everything in his childhood was perfect. Jon Krakauer, the author of Into the Wild, interviewed Chris’s sister who said, “‘We learned to count on each other when Mom and Dad weren’t getting along’”(75). He had problems that he could no longer endure and his only solution was to permanently run away. But in Robert Neville’s case in the movie I Am Legend, he had problems with zombies, or Darkseekers, and there was no society to run away from. He believed he was the only person and

Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the

In this poem the poet uses many techniques to engage and hook the audience. Dan Ashlin expresses how the ocean has a life of its own through personification, an example is “it dreams, it mopes, it stretches”. I appreciate how the poet has used verbs in this technique as it positions me to feel like I can relate to human emotions, movements and

Personification is used in both passages to create vivid images of how the ships flounder during the process in order to accomplish the dreams that people persist in minds. In “The Cargo Hulks”, personification illustrates the natural hardship that the ship undergoes: “ferocious high seas thundering, merciless Antarctic gales, the howling challenge of the Horn.” The difficulties are symbols of the hunger,

Heroism: Why Heroes are Important is a short essay by Scott LaBarge. In the essay, LaBarge is the narrator and tells a story his choice of becoming a philosopher. Inspiration came from one of his hero’s, Henry David Thoreau. Through pathos, logos, and ethos; LaBarge reveals what message society should learn. He not only informs the reader, but persuades them to think deeply and research who a hero is by using historical background information, an intended original audience, and emotional appeals to create an effective argument.

In my rhetorical modes essay, I selected compare and contrast for the prompt, and the three other rhetorical modes I included were narration, definition as well as description. I first used narration establish a closer connection to the topic, and relate my personal experiences that seem like an antithesis to the topic of Trump’s xenophobic and anti immigrant attitude. To mark the transition into this mode I employed the first person perspective, describing a brief anecdote of my parents who immigrated from their country of origin, to illustrate the point that the image of the thieving and malicious immigrant that Donald Trump propagates through his rhetoric is completely false. I used this mode to base myself off a degree of credibility,

The movie Immortals, directed by Tarsem Singh, features a low class man with proper moral standards named Theseus. After being left behind with other peasants because of his class, he is captured by the Heraclians—the enemy. He soon escapes and makes his way to the wall where the other citizens have chosen for refugee. As the enemy soldiers close in, he speaks to the crowd of soldiers hoping to give them the courage to fight. He does this by implementing rhetorical devices in order to persuade the soldiers to fight in his speech Stand Your Ground.

He used personification by making the waves seem like they could devour the land. This shows how he knows how powerful the waves are by just hearing them. Sullivan uses many types of figurative language throughout the story to better describe the world around

In I am Legend, Richard Matheson depicted Robert Neville as another man in another life before the plague broke out. He was a father and a husband. Your average joe working a blue collar job in the 1950 's, facts of life that change for him once the plague took hold of humanity. He created a safe-guarded sanctuary for himself within his own home fortified by garlic and crosses from the vampires who dominated the fallen world outside. Solitude was his only companion. Society provided Neville with support, structure, morals, and a community. With the fall of society, Neville priorities had changed. He had changed. Whilst the novel appears to focus heavily on alienation, Matheson perhaps also meant to depict another underlying plot theme. The

Richard Matheson, the most prominent American author in the horror genre, who published the preeminent horror novel, I Am Legend in 1954, renders Robert Neville as the hero of the novel as he struggles to overcome a constant battle against the vampires and his subconscious mind. At the end of the novel, Robert Neville can be interpreted to finally have the ability to see the world through the perspective of the vampires which, ultimately, leads him to be able to understand them. Matheson reveals the true monster to be not the vampires nor Robert Neville, but prejudice. However, Matheson first establishes a connection between Robert Neville and the audience. This connection allows the message, that prejudice is capable of being the darkest

I am Legend contains a religious undertone, which many of the viewers will not notice the first time that they watch the film. Neville is portrayed as the resurrection of Christ, as he sacrifices his life to the discovery of the vaccine, and the welfare of humanity. Butterflies, which symbolize the resurrection of Christ, are also seen several times in this film, which only adds to the religious theme. Neville’s daughter is shown making a butterfly for her father before she and her mother attempt to flee the city. Also, there is a butterfly tattoo on the woman that Neville sacrifices his life for, by hiding her in a shaft while he confronts the zombies.

He wants to save people, but believes there is nobody else alive. I Am Legend is a story adapted from a 1954 science-fiction novel written by Richard Matheson. Matheson’s novel

Matheson’s book tells a story of Robert Neville who, after a majority of the Earth’s population have been killed due to a new plague, is the last living man actively searching for a cure that mutated all the other inhabitants of the planet into vampiric forms of their former selves. The earlier film The Last Man on Earth implores a relatively sentimental plot and stays the most true to the book of which it is based upon, while I Am Legend takes on a charismatically different approach tailored specifically to do well in box offices for a modern audience, completely ignoring the original message behind the