With the full Rhetorical Analysis paper due in just about 2 weeks, its about time to get to work on it. Starting to do this, I educated myself all about the background of the text, or scene, that I am analyzing (not that I didn’t know a lot to begin with). The work that I am analyzing is My Hero Academia. This is both a manga (comic) and anime (cartoon), although for the sake of this paper, I will mostly be dealing with the show as it better illustrates the mood and argument the author is trying to get across. This is due to the fact that the show can use color, music and smoothly moving frames to further drive the point home. The author of the original text of the comic’s story is Kohei Horikoshi while the writer of the show is Yosuke Kuroda. Also, another very important person to the impact of the scene is Kenji Nagasaki whom is the director. As the director, he controls what colors are where, how every character moves, and the music that plays over the background of the scene (with the help of Yuki Hayashi). This all culminates with the original writing to complete the argument that the scene is trying to convince you of. All of these artists have vary previous experience as well, which Horikoshi only working on some other pieces before this, whilst Kuroda and Nagasaki have worked on many. Kuroda has even won the Individual Award at the 8th Animation Kobe event for previous works. This piece was published by Studio Bones in 2016 to present.

The cast of My Hero Academia is filled with people with superpowers and either use them for good or evil. The problem occurred, and this argument starts, when someone basically uses their superhuman ability to do both. The context is that, after being knocked out and tied up for almost killing several people, Stain wakes up and proceeds to save one of the heroes, Midoriya, from another villian. He kills the villian in the process and then turns around to the rest of the heroes, some of which are the most powerful in this world, and gives them a speech on what it means to be a hero. This leads to the heroes being unable to move under his overwhelming resolve and terror. Thus the argument that the author is trying to get across births itself. 

The argument in this scene is that there is no such thing as pure good or pure evil. Using this toward his mostly young adult (teens to late 20s) Horikoshi has Stain play both parts by both saving a heroes life, while taking another person’s life at the same time. At the same time he has the character explain his resolve in a screen of just red and black. These elements all culminate together to create a great argument using logos (the character’s reasoning), Ethos (the strongest heroes’ fear), and Pathos (the coloring of the scene).

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My primary exigency for choosing the scene that I did is obviously for a good grade (hopefully). Although, I also hoped to get something else out of the text and have fun while doing it. This is my secondary exigency. I chose a scene from the show “My Hero Academia” which argues that one of its characters is a powerful immoral threat that is worth being afraid of in his actions, although is also correct and moral in his words. I chose this particular scene because it greatly represents what is going on in the world right now and even during out history. It represents the phenomenon which basically says that there is no black or white, but rather a gray area of morality. It isn’t about what you stand for, but rather how you go about standing for it. It is a contradiction of a good cause paired with a bad way to act upon that cause.

It matters to break down the scene because it allows me to further delve into the area of gray morality in our society and understand it better. This was a great area of study already during the civil rights era (1950s and 1960s) and is still apparent today. I believe studying this scene will allow me to better understand both sides of the gray area of morality in civil rights in the world today. That understanding will then help me to expand my thinking and even better my writing. Learning to identify both sides quicker and understand them better would greatly improve my argumentative writing itself by allowing me to better connect with my audience and material.

Hey, welcome to my blog. I am James Samonas and it’s a pleasure to have you here. Now I guess you’ll wanna know a little about me; that is what you came here for after all right? To give a little background about myself: I am 18 years old and grew up in Miller Place, Long Island with my twelve siblings and two parents. I often spend my summers working and hanging out at the beach whilst my winters are spent inside doing schoolwork, watching hulu, and reading comics. Most of this time is spent with my family as well. Having such a large family has assisted in cultivating a strong sense of unity of essentially “family” between us and that is something I value highly. I oftentimes will be found doing whatever I am participating in with another member of my family or friend group. This is one of the many reasons i chose for going to Stony Brook.

Many of the deciding factors that pushed me to Stony Brook stemmed from my family and background overall. The ability to stay home not only fulfilled my want to stay near my family but also helped immensely in saving money. That brings me to my second fact of Stony Brook being pretty inexpensive for what a good school it is. Its high status as a medical school as well as just a good school overall were the final factors that pushed me over the edge to join in the Seawolves here at Stony Brook. My major here at SBU is Health Sciences. This is because of my interest in medicine as well as my desire to help others. I am currently thinking about going into the concentration of Radiologic Technology, although I am not completely sure about this and still need time and more practice to decide which concentration I truly wish to go into.

In the end, (of my time here at Stony Brook, and in life itself) I just really want to figure out what I really desire from life and want to do. Luckily there is still plenty of time for me to do so as well as many opportunities around me to take advantage of. There is also the unknown of the world which takes form in the unanswered form of how much time you have left as well as just the general not responded to questions that remain in everyone. My hope is just to answer these questions at least for myself, and if I can help others answer theirs to, then its all the better.